Larry Zuckerman

WWP’s Central Idaho Director

Larry Zuckerman, Western Watersheds Project’s Central Idaho Director, brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to his position. He has been concentrating his work on salmonids listed by the Endangered Species Act and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act---Columbia Basin bull trout, Snake River Basin steelhead, Snake River spring/summer Chinook salmon and Snake River sockeye salmon---and the proposed ESA listings of the Big Lost River mountain whitefish and Montana fluvial grayling. His office is also active in protesting expansive water claims in the Big Hole Basin Adjudication (MT) that impact the aquatic and riparian habitats of the grayling.

He has a degree in Biology and a Masters in Environmental and Forest Biology from the State University of New York, a Masters Degree in Zoology from Syracuse University and doctoral research in Fish Biology at Colorado State University.

Larry has had a long and distinguished career with public agencies, in private consulting, and serving non-profit environmental organizations. He has been a fisheries biologist with the National Marine Fisheries Service, an aquatic ecology expert for the Save the Manatee Club in Florida, an aquatic ecologist for the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, a regional director of the Kansas Wildlife Federation, and a fisheries biologist in the Colorado Division of Wildlife where he wrote the Rare Trout Recovery Plan for Colorado. He has also been a biological oceanographer for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington DC, a National Park Ranger at the Statue of Liberty National Monument and a Forester in Vermont’s Green Mountain National Forest.

In addition to being the author of numerous highly technical peer reviewed papers on a variety of scientific topics ranging from aquatic organisms and toxics to digital image processing and microscope optics (for Olympus and Nikon), he has written grants for non-profits and local governments as well as educational material for use in schools to promote pollution prevention and environmental awareness.

Larry is nationally recognized and has won numerous awards. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Science, was honored as the Kansas Conservationist of the Year by the Kansas Wildlife Federation, and selected as an Environmental Hero by the Wichita Eagle. Larry is active in the Pacific Northwest Native Freshwater Mussels Working Group and with the Clean Water Network.

He and his wife, Laura, a freelance writer and journalist, live in Salmon and enjoy gardening, cross-country skiing, fly-fishing, canoeing, bird watching, outdoor photography and hiking with their two dogs.