<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=01ueIM_0xfLWD4j00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=01ueIM_0xfLWD4j00" width="1200" height="913" ><figcaption>UMW senior Colton Folts spent the summer studying salmon in the Alaskan back country.&nbsp; Folts will graduate from Western this spring. Submitted photo</figcaption></figure><p>Colton Folts, a senior ecology student at the University of Montana Western, gained valuable hands-on experience this summer through a credited internship at the remote Snettisham Hatchery in Alaska, contributing to sockeye salmon population management.</p><p>The Snettisham Hatchery, located deep in Alaska’s backcountry and accessible only via a 40-minute bush plane flight from Juneau, is entirely off the road system. Managed by Douglas Island Pink and Chum (DIPAC), a nonprofit organization founded in 1976, the hatchery supports sustainable fisheries and local ecosystems by releasing hundreds of thousands of salmon annually. Originally built in the 1980s by Alaska Fish and Game near a hydroelectric plant that supplies 70% of Juneau’s electricity, the hatchery has been operated by DIPAC as a private nonprofit since the late 1990s.</p></div></body>

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Colton Folts, a senior ecology student at the University of Montana Western, gained valuable hands-on experience this summer through a credited internship at the remote Snettisham Hatchery in Alaska, contributing to sockeye salmon population management. The Snettisham Hatchery, located deep in Alaska’s backcountry and accessible only via a 40-minute bush...

UMW Student completes Internship at Alaska hatchery

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Colton Folts, a senior ecology student at the University of Montana Western, gained valuable hands-on experience this summer through a credited internship 

UMW Student completes Internship at Alaska hatchery

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