Fish/Wildlife People Groups
This agency oversees species placed on the endangered species list.
US Fish and Wildlife
Certain species occupy unique roles within an ecosystem, also called a...
Niche
This area of Iowa is defined by its wind-deposited soils.
Loess Hills
This Iowa State graduate is the current director of AFS. He also makes good salsa.
Jeff Kopaska
This common group of fishes can brighten up anyone's day as they are easy to find and are easy to catch.
Sunfish
This group dates back to June 16th, 1775, when George Washington ordered them to fortify Bunker Hill. Now, 97% of their workforce is civilians.
Army Corps of Engineers
Beavers create dams that alter the surrounding area, making them this. If it were a major at Iowa State, they would definitely enroll.
Ecosystem Engineer
This state park is located in Eastern Iowa and is defined by its unique limestone features. It's also home to a lot of bats!
Maquoketa Caves
Iowa State's first black student, he was a nationally respected botanist and is famous for his work with peanuts as he invented over 300 products using them. However, peanut butter was not one of them.
George Washington Carver
This river's flow was reversed to protect the city's drinking water supply.
Chicago River
The oldest environmental lobbying group was founded in 1892 by John Muir. As a group, they often took trips to the mountains they loved so much.
Sierra Club
The three parts of fisheries are...
Humans, Habitat, Biota
Born in Burlington Iowa, this famous ecologist was a professor at the University of Wisconsin. He unfortunately died of a heart attack in 1948 at the age of 61 while helping a neighbor put out a wildfire.
Aldo Leopold
Collecting more than 40,000 specimens for the Iowa State Herbarium, this scientist was also the first woman to earn a Doctorate of Philosophy here.
Ada Hayden
2024 marks the first time in over 100 years that salmon from this river can run freely to native spawning grounds.
Klamath River
This acronym is based in Florida and is in charge of keeping the world records for big fish.
IGFA
Geographical area with a specific climate, vegetation type, and animal life.
Biome
This fish is considered threatened by the Iowa DNR. It's also the name of a state capital.
Topeka Shiner
He reviewed Aldo Leopold's book called "Game Management" and there is also an annual lecture here at Iowa State in his honor.
Paul Errington
A popular fly-fishing movie, A River Runs Through It tells the tale of the two Maclean brothers. The movie often depicts the two fishing on the Blackfoot River by this Montana city.
Missoula
This group manages fishing for marine species. I also have a friend with the same name.
NOAA
This single-letter selected species produces many offspring, lives fast, and dies hard.
R-selected species.
This national monument is located in northeast Iowa. Native Americans built these structures showing depictions of mammals, birds, and reptiles.
Effigy Mounds
A father of current faculty in the NREM department, this Professor Emeritus email is "old coot." He also wrote the book "A Country So Full of Game: The Story of Wildlife in Iowa".
Dr. James Dinsmore
Bass anglers flock to Texas to try and land giant Largemouth, but this species of Micropterus is actually their state fish.
Guadalupe Bass