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Environment & Community, M.A. | Class of
Brooks Estes
Wildlife Area Technician
Employer: Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW)
Job description: I am a temporary seasonal wildlife area technician at WDFW. I work with the Snoqualmie wildlife area manager and the Region 4 boater access manager to maintain the wildlife areas and boater access sites in King and Snohomish counties. I also help facilitate hunting opportunities by releasing farm-raised ring-necked pheasants in our wildlife areas as part of the state’s pheasant program.
About Brooks
Right now I am just getting my foot in the door at WDFW, but I think having a master’s degree helped make me a more competitive applicant for my position. I hope to continue working in WDFW or another state agency in a more research and outreached focused role in the future. My current work is mostly manual labor, so I am not directly applying anything I learned as an E&C student, but my education definitely helped improve my research and writing skills, particularly in subjects I was not well versed in, like political science.