Our Tuesday, May 9, 2023, Chapter Meeting
By Topf Wells
David Rowe, the Fisheries Team Supervisor for our area, will speak at our May 9 meeting. He’ll report the state of the trout streams in our area as the regular season opens. He’ll discuss some of the improvements and challenges facing the DNR in trout stream management. More specifically, he’ll have some suggestions how SWTU can use the funds we raise to help those efforts. The final topic is the DNR’s ongoing planning efforts for the Western Coulees and Ridges Regional Master Plan. That mouthful is important because the plan represents our opportunity to expand the areas around our trout streams where the DNR can purchase land and easements as well as comment on management practices for current DNR managed lands. Meaning better stream protection and fishing access.
We don’t see the biologists’ supervisors in action as we do folks like Dan Oele and Justin Haglund. But Dan and Justin would not be here but for David’s excellent hiring decisions. Those are typical of his successes in hiring the fish folks we work with. David is also responsible for the DNR adapting the watershed- based assessment of trout streams, which many of us have found extremely informative and useful.
David grew up between Middleton and Cross Plains and probably spent way too much time messing around Black Earth Creek, Brewery Creek and Salmo Pond as a kid but it seems to have worked out for him. He earned a BS from UW-Madison, a BSE (in education) from UW-Oshkosh and an MS in Fisheries Biology from Iowa State. David started with the DNR as a research technician back in the late 90s and has held positions as a Fisheries Tech in Antigo, Fisheries Biologist in Green Bay and currently the Fisheries Team Supervisor in Fitchburg covering the 9 counties of Southwest Wisconsin.
We’ll meet on Tuesday, May 9, at Schwoegler’s Bowling on Grand Canyon Drive on Madison’s west side. Dinner and drinks will be available starting at 5:30 and David’s presentation will begin a bit after 7. Hope to see you there!
Schwoegler’s Lanes, 444 Grand Canyon Dr., Madison, WI 53719
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Posted: May 3, 2023 by Drew Kasel
How Our Trout Streams Are Faring and How We Can Help
Our Tuesday, May 9, 2023, Chapter Meeting
By Topf Wells
David Rowe, the Fisheries Team Supervisor for our area, will speak at our May 9 meeting. He’ll report the state of the trout streams in our area as the regular season opens. He’ll discuss some of the improvements and challenges facing the DNR in trout stream management. More specifically, he’ll have some suggestions how SWTU can use the funds we raise to help those efforts. The final topic is the DNR’s ongoing planning efforts for the Western Coulees and Ridges Regional Master Plan. That mouthful is important because the plan represents our opportunity to expand the areas around our trout streams where the DNR can purchase land and easements as well as comment on management practices for current DNR managed lands. Meaning better stream protection and fishing access.
We don’t see the biologists’ supervisors in action as we do folks like Dan Oele and Justin Haglund. But Dan and Justin would not be here but for David’s excellent hiring decisions. Those are typical of his successes in hiring the fish folks we work with. David is also responsible for the DNR adapting the watershed- based assessment of trout streams, which many of us have found extremely informative and useful.
David grew up between Middleton and Cross Plains and probably spent way too much time messing around Black Earth Creek, Brewery Creek and Salmo Pond as a kid but it seems to have worked out for him. He earned a BS from UW-Madison, a BSE (in education) from UW-Oshkosh and an MS in Fisheries Biology from Iowa State. David started with the DNR as a research technician back in the late 90s and has held positions as a Fisheries Tech in Antigo, Fisheries Biologist in Green Bay and currently the Fisheries Team Supervisor in Fitchburg covering the 9 counties of Southwest Wisconsin.
We’ll meet on Tuesday, May 9, at Schwoegler’s Bowling on Grand Canyon Drive on Madison’s west side. Dinner and drinks will be available starting at 5:30 and David’s presentation will begin a bit after 7. Hope to see you there!
Schwoegler’s Lanes, 444 Grand Canyon Dr., Madison, WI 53719
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