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The article discusses the results of the Society for Range Management (SRM) Spring 2007 Membership Survey which was placed inside the front cover of the April 2007 issue of "Rangelands." It says that 689 individual responses were received, representing about 20% of the membership. It states the 42% of the respondents wanted their dues information by electronic-mail (e-mail), while 52% wanted the information by postal mail. With regards to meeting length and location, 99% said they liked varied sites, while 56% preferred 4 to 5 days in length.

The article focuses on the use of transmitters and telemetry methods in fisheries research studies. Topics discussed include brief history of fish telemetry, aseptic technique which is considered a routine component surgical protocols, anesthesiology in fisheries research. It also discusses the impact of telemetry implantation to fisheries.

Fishways designed for salmonids often restrict passage by non-salmonids, and effective tools are needed both to identify passage problems for nontarget species and to inform remediation planning. In this case study, we used migration histories from 2170 radio-tagged adult Pacific lamprey ( Entosphenus tridentatus) to identify locations of poor passage (bottlenecks) at a large, multifishway dam. Over 10 years, 49% of tagged lamprey that entered fishways failed to pass the dam. Models accounting for repeated attempts by individual lamprey indicated successful passage strongly depended on attempted passage route. Success also varied with time of fishway entry, water temperature, and lamprey body size. Most failed passage attempts terminated in lower fishway segments, but extensive seasonal shifts in bottleneck locations were detected. Ranking metrics helped prioritize bottlenecks and identified sites where structural or operational modifications should improve lamprey passage. Our integration of spatially intensive monitoring with novel analytical techniques was critical to understanding the complex relationships among fishway features, environmental variation, and lamprey behavior. The prioritization framework can be applied to a wide range of fish passage assessments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]