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Professional Development
Professional Development
The Sundance Chapter provides substantive programs dedicated to promoting the APICS Body of Knowledge and each participants' personal and professional growth.
Professional Development for February
Subject: Utah Lake: June Sucker Recovery Program,
Goals, Progress and Challenges
Speaker: Reed Harris
When: Thursday, February 18, 2010
Where: TBA
Time: 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Cost: TBA
Menu: TBA
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Reed Harris oversees the Utah Department of Natural Resources’ Endangered Species Mitigation Fund and directs the June sucker and Virgin River fishes recovery programs.
His office’s primary objectives are to recover federally listed endangered species in Utah and to improve habitats and numbers of sensitive species so they will not require future listing under the Endangered Species Act.
He began working at the Department in January 2001 after working over 30 years as a fish and wildlife biologist with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Marine Fisheries Service and the Bureau of Reclamation. Although most of his work experience has been in Utah and the Intermountain West, he also spent time working in the marine waters of coastal Alaska doing fishery resource assessment.
Harris, who grew up in Orem, Utah, is a graduate of Orem High School and Utah State University with both Bachelor’s and Master’s of Science degrees in fishery biology.
Bio:
With an average depth of 9.4 feet and maximum depth of 14 feet, Utah lake is Utah’s largest body of fresh water in Utah.. Introduced into Utah lake in 1881, carp now represent 91% of the biomass of the lake. Of the thirteen recorded native species of the lake, only 2 remain.
Reed Harris will be speaking to us about a recovery program that he is overseeing, for one of the species, the June Sucker.
He will present an overview of the plan and its goals, report on the progress made to date, and discuss some of the operational and logistical challenges associated with an effort of this magnitude.
