Jared McKee

Jared began working as a Fish Passage Engineer at the CRFWCO in early 2020. His primary responsibility is to coordinate with field offices and refuges throuhgout our region to provide technical support to the Service and Service partners in areas of fluvial restoration and fish passage fish passage
Fish passage is the ability of fish or other aquatic species to move freely throughout their life to find food, reproduce, and complete their natural migration cycles. Millions of barriers to fish passage across the country are fragmenting habitat and leading to species declines. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Fish Passage Program is working to reconnect watersheds to benefit both wildlife and people.

Learn more about fish passage , including analysis, assessment, design development and design review. Jared also works on large water resources restoration projects in the Pacific Southwest Region, particularly in the Upper Klamath Basin.

Program: Passage and Habitat Assessment

Background: 

Jared received a B.S. and M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Mississippi State University. After college, he worked for the Dauphin Island Sea Lab on a oyster reef / shoreline restoration project in the Gulf of Mexico. In 2011, Jared began working for the USFWS in the Klamath Falls Ecological Services Office. In 2016, he moved to the Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge to be a supervisory hydrologist in the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program. In 2019, Jared transferred to the Upper Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge in the same position. A video about a previous Bull Trout project that Jared was a part of can be found here: A Creek Once More- https://youtu.be/HCELMTzTicQ

At CRFWCO Since: 2020