Pat’s been on the FWSR board for a long time now, and every FWSR board meeting is still fun.  Pat is grateful to the FWSR supporters who have sustained the group since the 1970’s.  Hurrah for past success and onward to new victories!

Pat’s parents were heavily involved with Rachel Carson in environmental work, so her environmental activism education began early.  Pat holds degrees from Vassar College, A.B. sociology and English; the Cambridge-Goddard School for Social Change, M.A.  women’s history; and the California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, M.S Agriculture.  Pat’s a graduate, Class XVII, of the California Agricultural Leadership Program.  She spent most of her working career in production agriculture.  She moved to Trout Lake in 1991 to take a position as production manager at Trout Lake Farms.

David left the Bronx, NY for San Francisco back in the 1970s with a Masters Degree in Environmental Engineering and a desire to put his career and life experiences to their best use.  He has since worked throughout the West as a consultant and inspector for various private organizations as well as federal, state, and municipal agencies in the fields of water and air quality as well as with hazardous waste issues.  He was eventually invited to create an Environmental Engineering program at Portland Community College where he worked for 23 years before retiring.

During his tenure at PCC, David travelled to Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Mali), Mexico, as well as statewide to promote renewable and solar energy projects.

Since his retirement, David has dedicated his time to local environmental and water quality issues.  You can find him cleaning and sampling our nearby rivers and lakes, maintaining hiking trails, tutoring high school students, and promoting a major global transition from fossil fuels to a renewable energy system. He is a dedicated volunteer of the Columbia Gorge Ecology Institute (now GEO — Gorge Ecology Outdoors,) Friends of Trees, Columbia Riverkeeper, Solar Energy International, the Oregon Conservancy Foundation, and, of course, Friends of the White Salmon River.

David resides in Lyle, Washington with his wife Julie and spends as much time as he can with his grandchildren.

Tom Binder spent his 20s in Trout Lake Valley doing a variety of woods work, including firefighting, tree planting, tree thinning, and setting chokers and chasing landing under a high lead.
He returned to school and took a Bachelor’s Degree in Nutritional Sciences in 1985 from Central Washington University in Ellensburg,

then a Master’s degree in Nutritional Sciences from Texas Woman’s University in Houston. He worked as a clinical nutritionist and college-level instructor before retiring to Trout Lake in 2016.

Jeremy was born and raised in Washington state and is currently living in Trout lake WA. Before he could walk, his father would take him on to the river where he enjoyed playing in and near the water. Soon he began to enjoy fishing, rafting and kayaking in some of Washington’s most pristine rivers. Most of his days involve at least one trip down the river in his kayak.

Dr. Connolly has worked in the fisheries field in the Pacific Northwest for over 35 years.  Pat received his B.S. in Biology from Centre College of Kentucky, his M.S. in Zoology from University of Idaho, and his PhD in Fisheries Science from Oregon State University. 

He is recently retired, now Emeritus, from the US Geological Survey, after serving there as a Research Fish Biologist for 20 years.  Pat has conducted stream fish ecology studies throughout the Columbia River Basin and other stream systems in the western USA.  A major focus of these studies has been to evaluate effectiveness of restoration actions and fish response, such as from stream improvement projects and dam removal.
See a list of his publications.