Kim McCune

ORAFS Liaison (2024 – 2025) Current Position: Game Program Manager, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Salem, Oregon Biographical Sketch: A native Iowan, my early career experiences were in entomology, aquatic macroinvertebrates, water quality, and stream restoration ecology. After a short stint with grouse, I have spent nearly two decades focusing on carnivore and furbearer

Griffin Fosback ORTWS Student Liaison (2024 – 2025) Current Position: OSU Student Biographical Sketch: Hello! I am a non-traditional student at Oregon State University, bringing more than a decade of management and leadership experience. Much of the work I’ve done prior to starting this degree path was people-oriented, and as I have learned from several

Emily Weidner ORTWS Board Member (2024 – 2026) Current Position: Fish & Wildlife Biologist – U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Biographical Sketch: Hello ORTWS folks! I’m 7 years deep in my career with U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in the Bend Field Office. School wasn’t on my radar until my early 30s, so I started

Shalynn Pack Oregon State University Student Chapter Faculty Advisor Board Member (2020 – present) Current Position: Internship Coordinator & Instructor, Dept. of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences, Oregon State University  Biographical Sketch: Hi, fellow wildlifers! I am an Oregon State University graduate and Certified Wildlife Biologist who has worked primarily in wildlife field research, international community-based

Jeremy Thompson ORTWS Vice President-elect (2024 – 2025) Current Position: Energy Program Coordinator with ODFW Biographical Sketch: I have worked for ODFW for the last 25 years, starting my career working on multiple wildlife areas around the state, and then moving to the district office in The Dalles where I served as an assistant and

Alina Blankenship ORTWS Secretary (2024 – 2026) Current Position: Master Falconer at Sky Guardian Falconry Biographical Sketch: Greetings ORTWS!  I have been a falconer for 12 years and a professional abatement falconer for 7 years.  In this capacity, I am able to offer a non-lethal but effective method of redirecting flocks of nuisance avian species