![]() ![]() “It took a lot of time and effort to acquire shocking equipment,” Noble said. “So, given my background, it was pretty much up to me to decide where to go (with the program),” Noble said.Įarly on, Noble with support from fellow NRB teammates and others, helped establish a fish shocking program that continues to this day that helps determine the numbers and types of fish in 17 sites at Fort McCoy. but it began to pick up more once he was on the job. ![]() Noble said before he started, there was some fisheries work done at Fort McCoy in the 1970s and 1980s by biologists before him. Things have changed quite a bit since then.” ![]() We had rotary phones - anybody remember rotary phones? And we had one computer. … Back in the day, we were a small operation. “Before here I worked for three years at the National Fisheries Research Center in Gainesville, Fla. During his time, Noble has helped the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch earn awards from Installation Management Command, Secretary of the Army, the Department of Defense, U.S. Through the support of others, Noble said Fort McCoy’s natural resources program is one of the best anywhere and it’s because of the people he has worked with in the past and now. When he started at Fort McCoy in 1991, Noble took a fledgling fisheries program and over three decades turned it into something that has made Fort McCoy one of best-managed fishery programs in the U.S. Fort McCoy Fisheries Biologist John Noble with the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch officially retired from government civil service on June 29 with 32 years on the job. ![]()
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