Dan Stinnett Named Field Supervisor of
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services Twin Cities Field Office
Dan Stinnett, a native of Kansas, has been named field supervisor for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services Ecological Services Field Office in Bloomington, Minnesota. Stinnett, with 25 years experience with the Service, will join the 11-member Twin Cities office staff Oct. 22, 2001.
The Twin Cities office handles a wide variety of fish and wildlife issues for the Service in ecosystems throughout Minnesota, from the pothole prairies in the western part of the state to the headwaters of the Upper Mississippi River to the watersheds of Lake Superior. Stinnett will oversee efforts to conserve endangered species, promote habitat conservation, review Federal projects for fish and wildlife impacts, investigate contaminant issues and develop partnerships with private landowners.
Stinnett comes to the Twin Cities Field Office from the Services Big Rivers/Great Lakes Regional Office in Fort Snelling, Minnesota. While in the Regional Office, he was the biologist/coordinator for the Upper Mississippi River/Tallgrass Prairie and Lower Missouri River Ecosystem Teams where he planned and implemented landscape level activities with conservation partners to protect and conserve natural resources. He also spent eight years with the Regions Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, including five years as regional coordinator.
Prior to coming to the Big Rivers/Great Lakes Region, Stinnett spent 15 years as a biologist at the Services Tulsa, Oklahoma, Ecological Services Field Office. During his tenure in Oklahoma he participated in a variety of fish and wildlife issues, most of which related to land and water resource development projects. He has worked extensively with watershed treatment in agricultural landscapes and understands the importance of building collaborative partnerships for successful resource protection.
Stinnett studied biology at Fort Hays Kansas State University, earning a Bachelors degree in zoology in 1971. After serving two years as a medic in the U.S. Army, Stinnett attended the University of Nevada where he earned a Masters degree in renewable natural resources in 1976. He served a short time as a range conservationist with the Bureau of Land Management in Montrose, Colorado, before transferring to the Fish and Wildlife Service.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the principal Federal agency responsible for conserving, protecting and enhancing fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. The Service manages the 94-million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System which encompasses more than 535 national wildlife refuges, thousands of small wetlands and other special management areas. It also operates 70 national fish hatcheries, 64 fishery resource offices and 78 ecological services field stations. The agency enforces Federal wildlife laws, administers the Endangered Species Act, manages migratory bird populations, restores nationally significant fisheries, conserves and restores wildlife habitat such as wetlands, and helps foreign governments with their conservation efforts. It also oversees the Federal Aid program that distributes hundreds of millions of dollars in excise taxes on fishing and hunting equipment to state fish and wildlife agencies.
For further information about programs and activities of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Great Lakes-Big Rivers Region, please visit our website at http://midwest.fws.gov
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