Protect Your Shoreline With An Itasca Waters Shoreland Advisor

Essential habitat is critical for the sustainability of fisheries resources and ecosystem services provided by lakes. This presentation will discuss 20 years of fisheries habitat research that provides evidence for the importance of conserving and enhancing fisheries habitat to benefit lake resources.

Presented by Gregory G. Sass, PhD. Fisheries Research Team Leader, Office of Applied Science, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources based in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin. Greg earned his B.S. with Honors in Biology from the University of South Florida in 1999. He earned his M.S. and PhD in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Limnology in 2001 and 2004, respectively. He is the former Director of the Illinois River Biological Station with the Illinois Natural History Survey (2006-2011). During 2011-2015, Greg was the Northern Lakes Fisheries Research Scientist and Northern Unit Fisheries Research Team Leader with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Much of Greg’s fisheries research career has been focused on conserving and enhancing within-lake habitat for fisheries sustainability.