ENVS
4950: Integrative Seminar in Environmental Studies
U.S. Fish and Wildlife: How the Federal Government Promotes
Conservation and Recreation, and Manages Wildlands
last update: March 30, 2012
Statement of Purpose:
I am interested in fisheries management and hope to learn how the Erwin National Fish Hatchery operates to supply rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) for federal, state, and tribal hatcheries. I am a biology major and environmental studies minor. I hope to one day use my degree to get a job with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service either in fisheries, maintaining endangered species, or as a fire control technician.
Additional Texts:
In addition to reading the required texts selected for this course, I am also reading:
· The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America. By Timothy Egan. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing. 2009. 300 pages.
This book is about the fire of 1910 that called for the need of fire control in our nation’s wilderness areas. It also gives details to why and how the U.S. Forest Service was first established.
· Anthill. By E.O. Wilson. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. 2010. 378 pages.
This book is about Raff, a conservationist, in Alabama that finds rare ants and eventually has to save them. The ants are threatened by a timber company that could destroy their habitat. Raff receives a law degree and begins working for the timber company in order to talk them into saving the ants.
Service Placement:
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Erwin National Fish Hatchery
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Erwin, TN
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John Robinette, Hatchery Manager
My duties will include: cleaning runways, separating
broodstock female rainbow trout that are ready to lay eggs from the females
that are not, collecting eggs, feeding fish, netting fish during separation,
and the shipment of eggs.