7044

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7044
• Author: Desert Fishes Council ‎(Edwin Pister, e.
• Title: Proceedings of the Desert Fishes Council Volumes XIII-XV ‎(A&B)‎
• USFW Year: 1985.
• USFW - Doc Type: The Thirteenth-Fifteenth Annual Symposia.
• Copyright Material: NO

IN MEMORIAM
The Desert Fishes Council mourns the passing of three of its members since
the 1980 Symposium and dedicates this publication to their memories.
Dale Lockard, of the Nevada Department of Wildlife, was actively affiliated
with the Council from its inception. He was the Council's chairman-elect until
called from Las Vegas to a promotion in Reno shortly before he would have assumed
the chair in the early 1970s. Educated at Colorado State University, Dale was an
excellent biologist and was strongly dedicated to the fish and wildlife resources
of his state. He possessed enormous leadership potential which was only beginning
to be realized when he was taken by a malignancy late in 1981.
Bob Borovicka, of the Oregon State Office of the Bureau of Land Management,
was also a charter member of the Council. As with Dale, he was one of the handful
of individuals who met in Death Valley in April, 1969, when the decision was made
that "something has to be done." Educated at Oregon State University, Bob possessed
a wealth of knowledge and experience in fishery science, much of it gained during
his long association with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. He was a
valued member of the Council until his death from a heart ailment in 1982.
Katsuo Nishikawa, of the Centro de Investigacio`n Cientffica y Education
Superior de Ensenada, Mexico, was one of the Councilts newest members. Many
will recall the excellent paper he,presented in November, 1983 concerning his
preliminary studies of the limnology of streams of Baja California's Sierra de
San Pedro Martir. A native of Mexico, Katsuo graduated from la Universidad
Auto'noma de Baja California Norte at Ensenada and earned his Ph.D. at Oregon
State University. Fluent in several languages, his services were invaluable at
international conferences. Katsuo was an environmental activist and a man of
strong convictions. He possessed enormous talent and potential, a potential that
was taken from him and from the world by a drunken driver as he, his wife, and
their three children drove from Tijuana toward their home in Ensenada during the
evening of August 6, 1984. Although badly injured, his family somehow survived
the accident. As with Dale and Bob, Katsuo will be missed by all who knew him, and
by future generations that will never benefit from what he might have given them.
Perhaps Carlos Yruretagoyena, of the Centro de Investigation de Quintana Roo,
said it best, in their native language. Although he was writing of his friend and
colleague Katsuo, his thoughts are most appropriate for all three of our departed
friends:
Tu mano nos deja la semilla del compromiso y de la responsibilidad de
seguir adelante y de cumplir con nuestras metas. Por Como eras y por
to que aprendf de ti, no siento que haz partido de este mundo, lino
que haz de andar por ahf investigando, y cada vez tengo la oportunidad
de visitar la Sierra de San Pedro Martir podre sentir to espfritu y
la gracia del Se&r.
Your influence has left us with the seed of commitment and the responsibility
to press forward and fulfill our goals. For what you were and for what I
learned from you, I feel that you have not departed from this world, but
that you will continue to be close, always researching, and every time I
have the opportunity to visit the Sierra de San Pedro Martir, I will be
able to feel your spirit and the grace of the Lord.
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