To continue monitoring the water quality on Malheur Lake in partnership with the USGS, I assisted Luke DuVall and aquatic biologist, Dominic Bachman on checking the sites on Malheur Lake that have the monitoring equipment installed.
If anyone is wondering what electro fishing is, it is a method for sampling a random selection of fish in a given area – a method that seems closer to an idea I would have come up with when I was a kid rather than complex science.
In the last week it has felt great to get past the first week jitters and start to really settle into my routine. Starting any new job is scary and comes with a lot of handholding so it has felt good to gain confidence in my work and also being given a certain amount of independence that definitely comes with an amount of responsibility.
Overall, May was a month of getting oriented, building systems, and helping several stewardship projects move from planning into action.
I’m looking forward to helping inventory and assess our hiking trails and then identifying areas that need maintenance while thinking through ways to improve visitor access and protect sensitive habitat.
