Dispatches from the field

Summer “break” is relative around here. Incoming Future Rivers student Grace Brennan has been leading fish removals along the Washington coast, ensuring the safe capture and relocation of fish during culvert replacement projects. Her efforts are part of a statewide initiative to increase salmon returns and protect aquatic life. Another incoming trainee, Rachel Luther, is spending the summer in Olympia, WA working for the legislature as a nonpartisan research analyst for the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee (JLARC). She is conducting a review of Washington’s recreational boating programs for a report that will be published by JLARC next spring.