The Reynoldsburg office handles a wide variety of fish and wildlife issues for the Service in Ohio, from the Great Lakes to the Ohio River. Knapp will oversee efforts to conserve endangered species, habitat conservation programs, review of Federal projects for fish and wildlife impacts, contaminant issues, and partnerships with private landowners.
Knapp comes to Reynoldsburg from the Services Arcata Fish and Wildlife Office in northern California, where she served as deputy project leader. There she was part of a team working on endangered species, forest planning, coastal conservation programs, and partnerships with Tribes, state officials and private landowners. The Arcata office participated with a large timber company in development of a ground-breaking habitat conservation plan for endangered species in northern California forests.
Knapp has also served as an assistant fisheries program leader and forest fisheries biologist for the U.S. Forest Service in Washington, DC and at the Forest Services Carson National Forest in New Mexico. She was also a fisheries biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Knapp studied biology and chemistry at Pittsburgh State University, earning a bachelors degree in 1971. She earned a masters degree from Oklahoma State University in 1985, and a doctorate in community-based natural resources management from Auburn University in 1994.
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 93-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 66 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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