The 2007 recepient is CSU Boulder graduate Student:

W. Carl Saunders
Graduate Research Assistant
Dept. Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
Colorado State University


Carl shakes hands with WDTU education director Charlie Horn

Carl drew the winning ticket for the 2007 Fantasy Prize Winner for West Denver

"Although current grazing management, as it relates to streams, is designed to protect bank stability and instream habitat, recent research indicates that riparian vegetation itself may also supply terrestrial invertebrates to the stream system that are critical for sustaining trout." Carl's Ph.D. research will be centered around evaluating those effects. Read more by visiting Carl's website, clicking on "research" and then the Ph.D. Research