So yeah, um....SCIENCE, right?

To be honest, I'm having trouble coming up with something specific to discuss right now. I have very little fodder for creativity at the moment as far as my classes are concerned. Except maybe for....

Today in Fisheries Management, we had a lecture on the history of fisheries management in Wisconsin, told by the former head of the fisheries program in the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. He had been working in fisheries since the 40's; it was interesting to hear about the change in management plans from a first person perspective. What became even more apparent as the lecture went on, is that we as natural resource students only learn a small portion of the skills we need to be a good manager (of not only the resource, but the habitat and most importantly, of people). He was telling us that things are never clean cut in natural resources, that politics play a substantial role, and that alot of times if you are just damn good you can bypass and squirm your way into getting what you want to happen. For example, walleye reintroduction into the Fox River, post 1970's clean up. It was an unplanned thing, he just asked his upper management for 2 million walleye fingerlings, demanded almost, was persistant. It was something he really wanted to do. And then he went out in his own boat and dumped them in by hand over a weekend. Stocking seldom works as well as people used to think it did, but in this case it was a success. One man reintroduced a species of fish to a river over a weekend and it was sucessful.

Funny how that works. Seldom will it work the same way twice.