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Finley hired as Snake River Headwaters project manager
Sawyer Finley joined Trout Unlimited (TU) in the New Year as the Snake River Headwaters Project Manager.
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He is working with the U.S. Forest Service to inventory fish passage barriers in tributaries to the upper Snake River and continuing TU’s community outreach in the Jackson Hole area.
Sawyer grew up in Colorado, fishing and recreating in the waterways of the Front Range. He went to a TU fly fishing camp in middle school, solidifying his love for freshwater systems and the organisms that inhabit them.
Sawyer attended Colorado College, graduating with a degree in Biology and Ecology. He participated in an NSF
Research Experience for Undergraduates program at the University of Oregon’s Hatfield Marine Science Center, investigating habitat usage by out-migrating juvenile Chinook salmon using stable isotopes. He also worked as a technician for Colorado Parks and Wildlife after graduation.
Sawyer worked with TU in the Headwaters of the Snake River in the summer of 2022 as the conservation intern.
He completed his master’s degree at Idaho State University in the fall of 2022, and studied the role of habitat complexity on macroinvertebrate community diversity in the Frank Church wilderness in Idaho.
In his free time, Sawyer loves to fly fish, tie flies, mountain bike and backcountry ski.
