Dennis, Damon and Beverly Chaney

From left to right: Dennis Michniuk, environmental scientist and district biologist with Region 4 of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Damon Goodman, biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Beverly Chaney, associate fisheries biologist with the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District below the Los Padres Dam on the Carmel River. Pacific lamprey were fully confirmed in the Carmel River following the removal the San Clemente Dam. “I never knew how integral to the ecosystem lamprey were until I went to that presentation in the library. I’m hooked now,” said Michniuk. Credit: John Heil/USFWS