New Wildlife and Fisheries Building - Dedicated Fall, 1999

The new Wildlife and Fisheries Building was dedicated at the beginning of the 1999 Fall semester. Chancellor Reed of
The California State University System participated in the dedication by addressing the assembled dignitaries, students,
and faculty. President of Humboldt State, Alistair McCrone, also gave an address and assisted in cutting the ribbon. A
reception with tours of the building conducted by Conservation Unlimited followed the dedication. A barbecue was held
for wildlife and fisheries alumni, past and present faculty, and current students, on the Saturday after the dedication.
This provided a great chance to show people around the building and to demonstrate some of the new laboratories.

The new building increased the space for the two programs to 25,286 usable square feet. This more than doubled the space available for the two programs. The old Wildlife Building contained only 6,500 square feet. The new building contains new museums for the taxonomic collections, The California Cooperative Fishery Research Unit, new departmental offices, space for graduate student research, a new display room for birds and mammals, and several specialized laboratories. Dr. Stan Harris, professor emeritus wildlife, spent much of the summer putting the exhibits of birds and mammals back together in the new display room and the halls. The new displays are outstanding! Stan and his wife Laurie have once again set up a wonderful learning opportunity for wildlife students and visitors to the Humboldt State campus. It is well worth a trip just to see the new displays if you have not seen the new building. We are still developing the interpretive materials for a self-guided tour through the building. We invite all alumni to visit the new building and we would be delighted to give you a tour of the new laboratories. We now have three labs that are dedicated to wildlife courses. The new lab for the management courses is working out even better than we had hoped. It is set up with ready access to the new museum area and contains 24 computer stations for teaching the habitats and populations courses. The expanded museum also contains displays of mammals and is much more accessible for the students to study the materials used in courses.

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