Pete Bisson retired from the US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station and now operates a small consulting business in Olympia, Washington. Early in his career, Pete worked as an aquatic biologist for the Weyerhaeuser Company in Tacoma, Washington. Then, he joined the Forest Service, where his studies included fish populations, stream habitats and food webs, riparian zones, and management issues related to aquatic ecosystems. Pete has served as president of the North Pacific International Chapter of the American Fisheries Society (now the Washington-British Columbia Chapter) and president of the Western Division of the American Fisheries Society. He co-chairs the Science Advisory Panel for the Washington Salmon Recovery Funding Board. Pete received a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Biology from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Fisheries from Oregon State University.
