Wildlife and Fisheries Building
The Humboldt State University Wildlife Building was originally
built in the mid-1950's to house programs in Fisheries and Game Management.
In its day, it was considered the "state of the art." In order to meet
the demands of the current programs and students, a plan was put forward
to remodel the existing Wildlife Building and build an addition.
Another part of the plan was to build a separate facility for storing
the Fisheries Biology program's boats and field equipment. After spending
several years in planning, the voters of California passed Proposition
203 and the project moved forward. The faculty and programs moved out
of the old Wildlife Building during the summer of 1997. The remodeled
building was completed in late spring of 1999. Faculty
and students began their first semester in their new quarters in the
fall of 1999. The new Boat
Storage Facility (6,500 Gross SF) was constructed near the main
campus in February 1999.
The new Wildlife and Fisheries Building provides much needed
instructional and research space. A new two-story addition was built
onto the front of the old existing Wildlife Building, which itself was
completely renovated. The newly combined facility (25,286 assignable
square feet and 41,040 gross square feet) is a vast improvement over
the old Wildlife Building of 11,605 square feet. Once again, the
Fisheries Biology program has a "state of the art" building. Fisheries Biology
facilities in the new Wildlife and Fisheries Building include lecture rooms
for classes, teaching labs for Limnology and Ichthyology,
a modern Fish Collection to
house the program's important fish collection, graduate and faculty research
labs, and new or remodeled faculty offices. The most important and extensive
improvements have been for faculty and graduate student research efforts. New
laboratories
are devoted to Age and
Growth of Fishes, Fish
Genetics, Fish Pathology, Fish
Ecology & Taxonomy, and Wastewater Utilization & Water
Quality. These new labs have state-of-the-art equipment and also provide
cubicles or bench space for Fisheries Biology graduate students. In addition,
the new building provides accommodations for the Cooperative
Research Unit offices and graduate student research lab.
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