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UND alum Steve Williams shares insights from long and distinguished career<\/h4>\n
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Steve Williams (center), who received his master’s degree in biology from UND, visits with attendees to the Glenn Allen Paur Lecture about his 40-year career in the fish and wildlife field. Williams is president of the Wildlife Management Institute and a former director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Photo by Patrick C. Miller\/UND Today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Managing fisheries and wildlife resources isn\u2019t only about following the science, it\u2019s also about understanding public perceptions and managing public expectations, according to Steve Williams, president of the Wildlife Management Institute<\/a> and a former director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Williams, who attended Pennsylvania State University and earned his master\u2019s degree in biology from the University of North Dakota<\/a> in 1979, came to campus last Friday to speak to students, faculty and alumni about his 40-year professional career in the fish and wildlife field. The event was sponsored by the UND Chapter of the Wildlife Society and the Department of Biology<\/a> as part of the Glenn Allen Paur Lecture Series.<\/p>\n

Williams outlined the changes he\u2019s seen and experienced since the days when he and his wife lived in World War II-era tin huts on campus while pursuing their master\u2019s degrees at UND.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t have two dimes to rub together, but somehow we found camaraderie,\u201d he recalled. \u201cWe were all kind of in the same boat. It was a wonderful, wonderful two years here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Early in his career as a wildlife biologist, the job revolved around protecting and preserving fish and wildlife for anglers and hunters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would collect information, go to my director and say, \u2018Here\u2019s the decision we\u2019re going to make because this is what the science tells us to do.\u2019 That\u2019s the way I originally started, and I\u2019ve had quite an education since then.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams described it as a command-and-control approach to managing wildlife resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would be in public meetings and say, \u2018Here\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do for you; you\u2019re welcome,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cWe really focused on traditional wildlife. We were going to produce more wildlife. We told you that\u2019s what we were going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Change is inevitable<\/h2>\n

Although numerous technological changes have occurred to vastly improve wildlife research and data collection, Williams believes the greatest change to how the profession will continue to evolve is recognizing the public\u2019s role in shaping the policies driving the future of wildlife management.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe used to think that people were always going to want to hunt and fish,\u201d Williams explained. \u201cNow that it\u2019s declining, it\u2019s made a lot of agencies take a look at where they\u2019re headed in terms of funding for their future. We need to start talking about the relevancy of conservation to the American public \u2013 to everybody, not just hunters and anglers.\u201d<\/p>\n

This means seeing fish and wildlife not as resources to be managed, but as part of a public trust and assets to be preserved for the benefit of all Americans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose assets are held in the trust, and they\u2019re administered and managed by people who are fish and wildlife agency folks, biologists and federal agency people,\u201d Williams said. \u201cWe manage those assets in this trust for the beneficiaries \u2013 for everybody in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut what\u2019s difficult to understand when you\u2019re just starting out in the profession is that we don\u2019t get to make all those decisions,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe\u2019re not even the people that have the authority to make those decisions.<\/p>\n

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For the first time in two years, the Glenn Allen Paur Lecture, sponsored by the UND Chapter of the Wildlife Society and the Department of Biology, was held face-to-face on campus in the Memorial Union. Photo by Patrick C. Miller\/UND Today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s those folks that are on commissions or boards or legislatures that are the ones at the highest level policy decisions,\u201d Williams noted. \u201cThey are the ones making the decisions. Our job is to inform them as best as we can. It\u2019s difficult as you work through your profession how to understand and accept that role, but that is the role we play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Susan Felege, UND associate professor in wildlife ecology and management, agreed with Williams\u2019 assessment of the profession, both in how it\u2019s changed and how it needs to change.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of us get into fisheries and wildlife biology for the animals, for the fish,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen you really get into it, you realize people are at the heart of it. When you make any management decisions, you\u2019re making management goals that are associated with people-driven values.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnderstanding how that interface comes together and provides value to society is really critical to saving and protecting wildlife and their habitats,\u201d Felege added. \u201cThat evolution is right now at the forefront of everything from funding to how we see different legislation being supported.\u201d<\/p>\n

Workforce education<\/h2>\n

Classes at UND have evolved to meet the changing nature of the fisheries and wildlife profession. Cailey Isaacson, a senior fisheries and wildlife biology major from St. Michael, Minn., noted that Williams reinforced what she\u2019s learned.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere at UND, we recently got the human dimensions class that is taught within the fisheries and wildlife program,\u201d she said. \u201cOne thing we get told as students is even though you\u2019re here to work with wildlife, a lot of it is about managing people. Managing people is the best way to manage wildlife.\u201d<\/p>\n

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During his presentation, Williams discussed the role universities can play in providing a multidisciplinary approach to training and educating the fish and wildlife workforce. Photo by Patrick C. Miller\/UND Today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Williams said the university\u2019s role is to make fisheries and wildlife administration and management more multidisciplinary because public perception plays a major role in decisions affecting the profession\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are many other academic disciplines that we have to think about,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt\u2019s a human dimension for people who are actually experts in marketing and doing public surveys and social media and recruitment and retention.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about hiring people who may not be experts in waterfowl, biology or fisheries biology or fish hatcheries, but they know about people,\u201d he added. \u201cThat\u2019s what many agencies are starting to recognize, and they\u2019re hiring people with those skills.\u201d<\/p>\n

Open communications<\/h2>\n

Felege echoed her support for the approach, noting that public opinion and perception are key to advancing fisheries and wildlife research.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe, as scientists, aren\u2019t really well trained in communicating this,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re good at talking to each other as scientists, but not necessarily to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur communications matters a lot,\u201d she continued. \u201cOur public image, how we\u2019re perceived interacting with wildlife in their habitats and how we\u2019re perceived interacting with recreational activities is important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steve Demmerly, a UND alumnus attending the lecture event, graduated in 2016 with a degree in fisheries and wildlife biology. He has seen firsthand the changes Williams described.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very much mirroring what I\u2019ve been seeing in my few short years in the profession,\u201d he said. \u201cHaving worked for the state park district, that\u2019s almost the entirety of what people find for wildlife and viewing of it. People have their own needs and desires, and we really need to fit into their expectations for wildlife for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brianna Ashworth (right) a junior fisheries and wildlife major at UND, received the Glenn Allen Paur Memorial Scholarship from the late Glenn Paur’s sisters, Nancy (left) and Evie Paur. Photo by Patrick C. Miller\/UND Today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Glenn Allen Paur was a Pisek, N.D., native who graduated cum laude with a B.S. in fisheries and wildlife management from UND, where he served as president of the Fisheries and Wildlife Biology Club, and was a member of the Wildlife Society. He drowned shortly after graduating in 1978 while assisting a UND professor with his research on Leech Lake, Minn.<\/p>\n

Paur\u2019s sisters, Nancy and Evie Paur, attended Williams\u2019 lecture and presented the Glenn Allen Paur Memorial Scholarship to Brianna Ashworth, a junior fisheries and wildlife biology major from Dickinson. She was recently elected president of the UND Chapter of the Wildlife Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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