January's NOON meeting: If any of you trout fisherpersons take your catch for granted – assuming that you are successful in hooking fish and not just bushes, trees, your lucky fishing hat, your thumb, or any unintentional “catch” your hook finds – you won’t be able to take the presence of fish in the streams for granted after Tuesday’s NOON meeting. Kasey Yallaly of the Wisconsin DNR will tell us about her work managing fish populations in our local rivers including, of course, the Kinni. Given how well regarded the Kinni is as an attraction to River Falls, even us non-fishers appreciate the value of her work.
About the speaker: Kasey began her career in natural resources at Southeast Missouri State University in 2011, where she graduated with a degree in Wildlife Conservation and Management while working for the Missouri Department of Conservation for three years as a forestry research technician and fisheries technician on large rivers. From there, she worked for Idaho Department of Fish and Game for three years on coldwater and warmwater fisheries. She then attended Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and graduated with her Master’s degree in Fisheries Management in 2018. Kasey has been working as the Fisheries Biologist for the Wisconsin DNR out of the Baldwin office since 2018 where she manages fisheries resources in Pierce, St. Croix and western Dunn counties.