Company News - about 3 weeks ago
While most of us at Smith-Root used our annual year-end closure to spend time with our families during the holidays, Project Manager Don Ormiston chose to use his time off assisting his son’s Boy Scout troop in making Patrol Boxes.
Based out of Salmon Creek, Troop 14 is comprised of 50 11-18 year old boys. Nine of these scouts volunteered to help build the patrol boxes at Smith-Root in exchange for a merit badge for metalworking.
Once Don came up with the project idea and the boy...
Company News - on December 21, 2011
In mid-September, 2011 Smith-Root installed a weather station at the Chicago 2A Fish Barrier located on the Chicago Sanitary Ship Canal (CSSC). This busy shipping channel connects the Mississippi River system with the Great Lakes and is a likely path for invasive Asian Carp to follow to enter the Great Lakes. To prevent this migration, which would devastate the native fisheries throughout the Great Lakes, Smith-Root was awarded a Federal Contract to supply and install its...
Biology Blog - on December 8, 2011
Smith-Root has always considered the safety of our customers (as well as the fish) as our greatest priority, ensuring their well-being is a key differentiator between Smith-Root and many of its competitors. In line with this ethos, Lisa Harlan of Smith-Root’s Science Department recently collaborated with Jim Reynolds on a Quick-Start Guide to Electrofishing.
The purpose of this much needed document is to provide all who use electrofishing as a sampling tool a short, easy to...
