Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s Outstanding Biologist of the Year

Daniel Cammack, who grew up in Pagosa Springs, is presented with Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s Outstanding Biologist of the Year. Cammack is CPW’s Southwest Region native aquatic species biologist. At the ceremony Aquatic Wildlife Branch Assistant Director Matt Nicholl presented Cammack with a wood burned art piece of a roundtail chub. Attending the ceremony were Cammack’s uncle, CPW Southwest Region Senior Aquatic Biologist James N. White and Cammack’s grandfather, James R. White. According to CPW, Cammack has long been a critical member of the CPW staff for his conservation work with our native aquatic species such as boreal toads, roundtail chub, bluehead sucker, flannelmouth sucker and Rio Grande chub and sucker. He also contributes to work with native cutthroat trout species. An email from the agency notes, “Cammack’s work has been critical, highlighted in last year’s decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service [USFWS] to not list Rio Grande chub and sucker under Endangered Species Act protections. He works tirelessly with partners from the USFWS, New Mexico, National Park Service and numerous other partners on the conservation of those species and to increase their populations in their historical waters.”