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Ron Goede Fisheries Experiment Station slides, 1965-2020

Overview of the Collection

Title
Ron Goede Fisheries Experiment Station slides
Dates
1965-2020 (inclusive)
Quantity
2 linear feet, (2 banker boxes)
Collection Number
UUS_P0706
Summary
Color slides taken by Ron Goede as part of his research and teaching of fish pathology.
Repository
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu
Access Restrictions

No restrictions on access, except not available through interlibrary loan.

Languages
English
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Content Description

This collection contains eleven binders of mostly color slides taken and collected by Utah state fish biologist Ron Goede from the 1960s to the 2000s. Goede traveled throughout the West visiting fish hatcheries and conducting trainings for game and fish and hatcheries personnel. Goede assisted in the treatment and attempted prevention of whirling disease which originated in Utah and which devastated trout in the West. Many of the slides show hatcheries which no longer exist. Also included are the CV and brief biographical sketches of Ron Goede, photographs of Fisheries Experiment Station staff, and a list of topics/places represented in the slides.

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Historical Note

Ron was born in 1934 in Columbus, Nebraska. His mother was from a German farming family, and his father, three uncles and grandfather were all German Lutheran ministers. The family spoke German and English at home. Ron's formative years instilled him with a love for language, wordplay, and nature; and his Lutheran upbringing endowed him with a moral philosophy and a deep respect for the rule of law. Ron must have been born to work with fisheries. At an early age he was raising aquarium fish and treating their diseases for himself and other people.

He graduated from high school in Lincoln, then earned a B.Sc. from the University of Nebraska, majoring in Zoology and Botany. During this time, he served in the Air Force for nine years as an aircraft mechanic. This experience taught him a respect for preventive maintenance, which became part of his professional credo.

In 1958, he was employed by the USFWS Office of River Basin Studies to conduct biological surveys on the Susitna River system in the territory of Alaska. Ron told of a time he became lost in a wilderness bog of cotton grass, which was nearly impossible to walk on. He resolved to focus on one small goal at a time and said this was the moment he chose to "take control of the trail!" In 1961, he earned a master's in Fisheries Biology from USU. His first job was at the Missouri Conservation Commission, where he eventually became the first hatchery biologist for the state, then Assistant Chief of Hatcheries. Eventually Ron built the first fish disease laboratory for Missouri.

In 1966, Ron was recruited by the State of Utah as a Fish Pathologist/Nutritionist and director of the Experimental Hatchery in Logan, a job he did for 34 years. He was always grateful to his mentors in Missouri, who instilled in him concepts that would guide him to emphasize the health of the fisheries in Utah and the unification of methods for disease control. Ron taught fish disease as an adjunct at Utah State University for 12 years. He developed and published a system to quickly assess fish and watershed health, which he called the Fish Health Condition Profile (HCP). He worked with the Colorado River Wildlife Council to usher in the drainage or watershed concept of disease control. Later, the Great Lakes Commission, Eastern Seaboard states, and the Columbia River states followed suit. Ron served on the committee for 22 years. He saw his mission as one of stewardship of Utah's natural resources. When whirling disease appeared, Ron had an important political role in codifying a Fish Health Policy Board within the Utah Department of Agriculture, balancing the interests of stewardship and commodity.

Ron was an active leader in the American Fisheries Society and received numerous awards from ofttimes disparate groups. He always said it was because of his family origins - intellectuals on his father's side and farmers on his mother's, coupled with his upbringing in an immigrant culture that allowed him to connect with different people.

From Ron Goede's obituary

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Permission to publish material from the Ron Goede Fisheries Experiment Station slides must be obtained from the Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections Section Head.

Preferred Citation

Initial Citation: Ron Goede Fisheries Experiment Station slides USU_P0706. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.

Following Citations:USU_P0706, USUSCA.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The binders with slides in pocket sleeves were kept in their original order.

Acquisition Information

These materials were donated to Special Collections and Archives in 2021 by Lisa Duskin-Goede.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • DescriptionBinder 1

    Subjects include: Fontinelle Reservoir, Wyoming, Green River, kokanee, Flume Creek Fish Hatchery, Boulder Creek, east fork, Hopworth, Lee, Ottenbacher, Brook Trout, Garkane power plant, Leavitt, pipeline, fishing tackle, PDI rings, disease control chart, atrition/dilution chart, non carrier individual, autopsy summary, rainbow trout, Little Bear autopsies, disease system chart, disease control system chart, redmouth, antibody data, scolex types, cestoda, cercarial types, trematoda, IPN history Utah, general trematode life cycle, fisheries experiment station, fog, Paradise, UT, IPN check, wet storage, Ross Smith, glenwood, Harmer, Thompson, Gates, histology lab shelves, Collett, sterile room, FES autopsy, upper Provo River, dead deer, disease survey, Little Bear River, Rushman Ranch, Nelma, temple fork, shocked sample, strawberry disease, 3rd dam, Logan River, screen collecting, whitefish, Johnson, running nets, running gill nets, cardiac puncture, blood sample, hatchery check, grinding tissue, Bob Caudell, dorsal aorta blood sample, hematocrits, Gell diffusion prep, blood withdrawal, Kent Thompson, bacteria innoculate, caudal artery, Scofield cabin, Scofield Reservoir, Ron, Scofield IPN check, Arcadio Valdez, Bruce Schmidt, Sheep Creek, Flaming Gorge, Flaming Gorge Dam, Cart Creek, Little Hole, Dutch John, Nelma gates, Rick Leyser, Bruce Bonebreak, Cart Creek Bridge, Johnson Valley Reservoir, Fish Lake, net float, Pine Lake, Echo Reservoir, anchor worm infestation, Dexter Pittman, Pineview Reservoir, Animas River, Durango, San Juan River, Clearwater Reservoir, Idaho, narrow gauge railroad, Spring Creek, cox effluent, Ernie Dean, mound of feces, dead trout, Johnson property, Cox operation, Parnell Johnson, Big Spring, Bear Lake, Big Creek, settling pond, Ballard Springs, Wellsville, Logan aerial, Ron's neighborhood, USU cmapus aerial, Cache Valley, oxbows, Weir, Huntington, Electric Lake, Boulger Creek, Walt Donaldson, Newton treatment, Newton Reservoir, rotenone mix, rotenone kill, Hyrum treatment, Beaver Creek, Kamas Hatchery, weighing fish, measuring fish, effluent, scale sample, cutthroat trout, scale collection, suspended fecal solids, White's Trout Farm, spring system, pump line, irrigation canal, Albino's RBT, disease inspection, heavy runoff, White's East discharge, live box site, White's secret effluent, Carlos Hasbun, White disinfection, "hot" truck.

    Box 1
    Section 1
    Dates 1974-1997
  • DescriptionBinder 2

    Subjects include: Albino rainbow trout, Logan Hatchery, trout fry, well repair, chlorinator, demand feeder, valve replacement, Camp Swampy National Forest, algae, sun screens, striped bass, striped bass physical plant, wind action, wind damage, FES father pond, Chub pond, bird cover, repairs, electrolytic corrosion water meter, necropsy, ATEC diffuser, Weir boxs, ultra low freezer, leaking well, "sealed" well, water crest, circular tanks, damaged water line, doule concrete pipe, new well, filtration manifold, bacteria lab, north feeders, spec 100 autoclave, cell culture, sterile room, Goede library, incubator, water bath, disinfectant vat, Ron's office, gravel zig zag for cutthroat, Mark Hudy, wire marker, coded wire marker, coded wire implant work, coded metal implant, spray dye kit, spray dyeing, Bryce Nielson, sorting kamloop, egg taking shelter, stress challenge equipment, construction, blood collection, severed caudal, blood sampling, fish health class, bird covers, loush pond, Diane Driscoll, brood, low head, June sucker construct, June sucker facility outfall, snow damage, fisheries staff, Rod Stone, plankton centrifuge, Elisa, training, honey locust, wedge removal, "wedging" sample, microscope, malachite green stain, pipette, stirrer, "crowding" devices, tarp covers, system renovation, heater, wet lab, Parshall flume installation, Brian Sheaver, fluorescent dye marking, feeders, low head injection, Mark Brough, Eric Wagner, Janet Baker

    Box 1
    Section 2
    Dates 1967-1998
  • DescriptionBinder 3

    Subjects include: Springville albino RBT, mill meadow, Springville Hatchery, Provo River, beaver activity, Camp Kiesel, Huntsville, air spawning demo, aquatic meeting, Chris Wilson, sun cover, egon, Hilton, Robert Montgomery, Thompson, pit tags, Eddie Hansen, Shirley Deaupont, Um Creek, pit tagging, La Salle mountain, Geyser Ditch, cutthroat, Slater, shocker prep, Salt Flats, Bettridge Creek, Pilot mountain, electroshock, Lahontan cutthroat, midway, raceway modifications, demand feeder, water inflow degasser, Hepworth setting, rotenone, night sample, Mantua reservoir, south shed, egrets, gaseous abdominal swelling, Duchesne, west fork, cyanide treatment, DeeDee Cathman, worm ID workshop, worm camp, tub fundamentals, oligochaeta workshop, Ralph Brinkhurst, tubifex, 1st Dam

    Box 1
    Section 3
    Dates 1984-2000
  • DescriptionBinder 4

    Subjects include: Glenwood aerial, styrofoam filter substrate, Glenwood settling pond, biofilters, Paul Harmer, styrofoam "balls", Glenwood old systems, sludge pond, aeration tower oyster shell, module, trigger for demand feeder, lab bench, Glenwood Burroughs, Meachum, Schramm diffusers, loading fish, circular tanks, Burroughs pond drain, settler outflow, Burrow pond inlet, delivery grip, oxide pressure, flow meters, health incubators, Glenwood module and houses, expanded shale biofilter, clearwell sprinkler, ATEC pilot, hyamine treatment, hyamine 3500, cline tower, bacterial slime, settler baffles, inlet jets, wetsuit, air grid, zeolite tower, fish loader, biofilter, aerator tower, Venturi extension, binoxide generators, Schramm aeration system, ion exchange, photozone polymerized basalt, clinoptilolite, ammonia, photozone generator, pump foot, Clearwell sprinkler

    Box 1
    Section 4
    Dates 1979-1984
  • DescriptionBinder 5

    Subjects include: Cisco fishing, Bear Lake, neuhold, Bob Trowbridge, car hood sled, drillis, artificial reef, Kent Summer, Benson marina, snake, rainbow trout, trout, humpback chubs, gila cypha, yellow perch, perca flavescens, Blue Lake, Tooele City, cutthroat plant, Logan River, 1st Dam, Johnson reservoir, rotenone treatment, Swan Creek, Echo Reservoir, disease check, fish trap, Blacksmith, irrigation, brown trout, Jeff Gosse, Scott Reger, Willard bay, Ottenbacher, Little Bear, White's effluent, sphaerotilus, Spring Creek, Midway, Nabil Youssef, Cold Spring, Gregg's Flat, White's diversion, Utah Lake, Salt Lake Valley, smog, Richfield, aerial photography, Wasatch Front, Uintah, Uintah Basin, Uintah Lake, Geneva Steel, Logan, Scofield reservoir, rotenone mist, public maggot, mixing boat, DC-6 application, Rick Stowell, Yuba Reservoir, Clear Creek Canyon, rock spill, Warm Springs, Juab County, gastropods, Gandy, Twin Spring, Leland Harris, Least Chub, Iotichthys phlegethontis

    Box 1
    Section 5
    Dates 1975-1986
  • DescriptionBinder 6

    Subjects include: Strawberry treatment, Strawberry Reservoir, barges, National Guard bridge, slurry barge, rotenone treatment, Mud Creek, Trout Creek, Aspen Grove, Pat Lakin, Bryce Nielsen, Leo Lentsch, Dale Hepworth, Gail Young, Don Wiley, Charlie Thompson, Paul Harmer, rotenone ear, dead batteries, safety gear, breath easy gear, Beaver Dam, charge in dam, smoking fire, dam blast, post blast, Coop Creek, safety tent, JoAnn Stewart, Richard Williams, Trout Creek, "chin bra", relief stations, bass rotenone, crane, batch crew, Bruce Knight, batch clean up, dead chub, dead sucker, Kokanee trap, Porcupine Reservoir, water hardening, transporting eggs, Tim Miles, drought, sperm diluent, Kokanee egg taking, washing Kokanee eggs, Whirling disease, canal control, Otter Creek Reservoir, Antimony Creek, Beaver River, Chris Wilson, Mike Mouskal, Sheep Creek, Mill Meadow, electroshocking, Willard Bay, Doug Miller, pumped inflow, Willard Bay canal, walleye, Bill Geer, beach house, Fish Lake Lodge, splake filet, fried splake, Ottenbacher, Comp, Hepworth, Routlege, Berg, Parsons, egg incubation facility, Fish lake hatchery

    Box 1
    Section 6
    Dates 1977-1993, bulk 1990's
  • DescriptionBinder 7

    Subjects include: Settling pond effluent, egan hatchery, Blaine Hilton, albino RBT, Jensen, miles, valentine, pond cleaner, blackburn home, fish truck, spawning trailer, egg trailer, Egan disinfection, Fountain Green hatchery, Glenwood hatchery, LHO, Kamas hatchery, Degasser, Loa hatchery, spring water supply, Mammotuck, foot pad, Panguitch, steel fry runs, feeder control panel, Mantua, egg sample board, Babbington demand feeder, fin clipping, Ron Roubidoux's Buffalo, Midway Pond Cleaner, 02 Injection, fish sampler, Timpanogos, Max North, Springville hatchery, Doug Robinson, Chris Wilson, watershed, loading fish, feeding fish, leeches, bird protection, whiterocks, Thacker

    Box 2
    Section 7
    Dates 1976-1994
  • DescriptionBinder 8

    Subjects include: Whirling Disease, Sentinel fish, Chris Wilson, Ericksons, Um creek, Shirley Davenport, mill meadow, Rickenbaugh facility, Wayne county, Olivia Wilson, Bruce Schmidt, deformed heads, Morrell property, Nelma Gates, loa, Road Creek, Dry Valley, Koosharem, Burrville, Brown's trout farm, Ellet's weeds, Mill Meadow reservoir, Forsyth reservoir, Fremont river, Stanley Wiley, Kent Thompson, Brinkerhoff aquaculture, pinecreek trout, trophy, egg incubation, egg picking, ducks, hatching facility, hideaway, auger, Porcupine reservoir, Otter creek

    Box 2
    Section 8
    Dates 1982-1994
  • DescriptionBinder 9

    Subjects include: Bone Drew, Wyoming, Willard Bay, new shocking setup, Ogden River, south fork, mottled sculpin, demossier, Strawberry Indian creek, Manning Meadows, walleye, interview, Brad Schmitz, East fork Boulder river, Joe Tomerolli, sugar pine, John Newhold, Bonneville cutt stream, Muddler, renegade, Joe's Hopper, spruce fly, Parnell Jensen property, Bear Lake Beach, rainbow cove, Big Spring creek, Pyramid lake, plite, Sacramento perch, lahontan cutthroat, sattelite inn, Bryce Nielsen, Anderson Ranch, Blacksmith fork, electro shocker, electrode, Midway, Kirk North, Solomon basin, Capitol Reef, Barney reservoir, Tim Butler, WD experiment, whirling disease, Kendall Hudge property, Amalga, methane, Little Bear, White's effluent, white rocks, Meek's lake, Solomon basin, Round lake

    Box 2
    Section 9
    Dates 1975-1995
  • DescriptionBinder 10

    Subjects include: Astroturf, Brown trout, whiterocks trough, leastchub, magma, strawberry disease, strawberry trap, Manny Meadow, bonneville cutthroat, Deep Creek reservoir, Solomon basin, Deep Creek reservoir, inflow, floating island lake, Fish lake cabin, Kamas dirt ponds, gas excess, Bodrero pond, gold fish, Don Bodrero, Fontanelle reservoir, egg unit, upper Provo reservoir, Weber canal, electro shock, hot spotting, Newton reservoir

    Box 2
    Section 10
    Dates 1976-1997
  • DescriptionBinder 11

    HCP class, Routledge, hatchery, Autopsy Class, Fish Health Inspection, Charlie Smith, Bob Piper, Fish Culture class, Galatin River, Green Back Cutthroat, Bozeman, Fish Tech Center, Wild Trout Lab, Don Roberts, Billie Karens, Wenatchee, King Crab, Display Tank, Gastineau Salmon Hatchery, Juneau, Niagra Springs, Snake River Trout, Clearwater River, Indian Springs, Wahweap ponds, Hamm's Fork, Bob Wiley

    Box 2
    Section 11
    Dates 1979-2000

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Subject Terms

  • Fisheries--Monitoring
  • Whirling disease