Fish, anglers benefit from Mississippi River collaboration across state boundaries

As a new employee, the first task assigned to DNR fisheries biologist Dan Sallee was to join a team of other biologists in a study of backwater lake management techniques. It was 1980 and the study area was Burnt Pocket, one of a series of Mississippi River floodplain lakes south of Keithsburg, Ill. In some regards, that team was unique, as it consisted of three Illinois Department of Conservation (now DNR) fisheries biologists, with another eight from the Iowa DNR and several from each the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.