Rod Engle
Rod first began working for the Service as part of the Student Career Enhancement Program or SCEP. While enrolled in the program, he worked for the Arcata Fisheries Resource Office, Lahontan National Fish Hatchery, and Olympia Fish Health Center. Upon completion of the program, Rod came to work at the Columbia River Fisheries Program Office in 2002. Currently Rod works with Carson, Little White Salmon and Spring Creek National Fish Hatcheries performing hatchery assessment activities and studies relating to interactions of wild and hatchery fish. Rod is also active in both fisheries restoration and recovery efforts within the Columbia River Gorge and the White Salmon River. Previous to working for the Service, Rod spent two field seasons working for the South Dakota Dept. of Game, Fish, and Parks. There he studied rainbow smelt population dynamics in Lake Oahe. Another field season was spent working for the USGS Columbia River Research Laboratory in Cook, WA studying diets and movement of northern pikeminnow and smallmouth bass in lower Hells Canyon on the Snake River and in the Hanford Reach on the Columbia. To contact Rod, please call 360.604.2500 or email rod_engle@fws.gov. |
Rod recieved a BS in Biology from the University of South Dakota and an MS in Natural Resources-Fisheries from Humboldt State University. His graduate work focused on juvenile steelhead trout summer survival and distribution in high gradient coastal streams in the King Range National Conservation Area, California. 