As a modern hire, DNR fisheries biologist Dan Sallee’s first assignment was to join a team of other biologists in a study of backwater lake management techniques. The year was 1980, and the study area was Burnt Pocket, one of a series of Mississippi River backwater lakes south of Keithsburg, Ill.
In some ways, the team was unique in that it included three fisheries biologists from the Illinois Department of Conservation (now the DNR), eight from the Iowa DNR, and several from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Fish and anglers benefit from cooperation on the Mississippi River across state lines
