2019 Summer Fisheries Technicians-TUC Welcomes Summer Field Staff in Alberta!
In early May, TUC welcomed two summer fisheries technicians, Evan and Katelyn, to the Trout Unlimited Canada team. Together they will be helping with the various field projects that TUC will be working on throughout the summer in Alberta. Under the guidance and expertise of TUC biologists, they will work to conduct aquatic habitat assessment and restoration projects. So far in their short time with us, they have already helped with harvesting willow stakes, installed stream temperature loggers and got trained on field data collection to apply a collaborative sediment model. Later in the summer, they will help to conduct fish sampling surveys, aquatic restoration and further stream monitoring along the eastern slope’s region of Alberta. Evan Tichonuk recently finished the third year of his Bachelor of Science majoring in ecology at the University of Calgary. He plans to return in the fall in order to obtain his undergraduate degree.
Katelyn Bie is a recent graduate from the Biological Sciences Technology program at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and plans on returning to school to get a degree from the University of Alberta in the Wildlife and Rangeland Management Program.
Both Evan and Katelyn are extremely passionate about protecting and restoring aquatic ecosystems for current and future generations to enjoy. Recovering healthy native Bull Trout and Westslope Cutthroat Trout populations, rehabilitating degraded streams and riparian areas, and working with partners and volunteers are the main goals of the projects they will be working on over the summer.
A special thanks to the United Nations Association in Canada’s Green Spaces Program and the Canada Summer Jobs Program for helping to fund these positions.
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