PENDLETON – A fish biologist from Prairie City has been hired as the new stream restoration specialist for the Oregon Water Resources Department’s North Central Region office in Pendleton.

The hiring of Terra Schultz was effective July 14. The aim of the job is to help carry out the mission of the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds, established in 1997.

Schultz and her husband Travis moved from Prairie City, where Terra worked as a fish biologist for the Oregon Dept. of Fish & Wildlife’s (ODFW) John Day fish research crew, monitoring the adult Chinook salmon population in the John Day watershed. They now live in Lexington.

She has a bachelor’s degree in biology from University of Portland, and Master’s degree in biology from Portland State University. She previously worked as an ODFW biologist in Clackamas, and a part-time human anatomy instructor at Portland Community College.

Schultz will be seeking partnerships with landowners, watershed councils, soil and water conservation districts, and others in developing and implementing stream restoration projects. Her work will focus in the Umatilla, John Day, Hood River and Lower Deschutes basins.

For more information, contact her at 541-278-5456 at the Water Resources Department in Pendleton.