President

Beth Rasmussen – [email protected]

Beth is a senior in Fisheries and Wildlife with an emphasis in Wildlife. She has worked at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center (WRC) in Roseville for two years. She works mostly with birds, but also mammals and herps. She is currently working on a UROP focusing on mussels and their host fish. She enjoys working with any kind of animal regardless of fur, fins, or feathers. After graduating she hopes to get some sort of wildlife technician position.

Vice President – Wildlife

Breeka Li Goodlander-Smith – [email protected]

Co-Vice Presidents – Fisheries

Dan Larson – [email protected]

Dan is a sophomore majoring in Fisheries and Wildlife with a Fisheries emphasis.  Last summer, he helped graduate student Grace Loppnow with a bass research study directed at studying methods of removing bass where they are non-native and invasive.  He also worked with Beth Rasmussen at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Roseville.  Dan doesn’t know exactly what he wants to do when he graduates, but he knows he doesn’t want to be stuck in a cubicle for the rest of his life!

Melissa Boman – [email protected]

Melissa is a junior in the Fisheries and Wildlife program with a Wildlife emphasis. She is currently Critter Care Supervisor at Duluth’s wildlife rehabilitation center, Wildwoods, where she enjoys working with Minnesota wildlife and training volunteers. She hopes to continue working with mammals in the future, but hasn’t picked a career path. Her current interests include the conservation of large predators in North America and the behavioral ecology of raccoons.

Treasurer

Gabby Barnas – [email protected]

Gabby is a sophomore in Fisheries and Wildlife with an emphasis in Wildlife.  This past summer, she worked as the Outdoor Living Specialist for the Voyageur Environmental Center in Mound, MN, teaching classes about outdoor survival, fishing, aquatic invertebrates, and insects to youth from the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities. She would eventually like to work more with mammals, while expanding her knowledge of birds, herps, fish, insects, plant life, and more.  Her most recent wildlife interests include black bears and monarch butterflies.

Secretary

Michael Wethington – [email protected]