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Selina Walters For Agri-View
Jul 1, 2023
Jul 1, 2023

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Selina Walters holds a good-sized Apache trout.

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Selina Walters, left, performs gastric lavage, a non-lethal way to collect diet samples, on a brook trout for her research project.

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Working with lake sturgeon during their spawning period is hard and dirty work.

Selina Walters, left, performs gastric lavage,

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Selina Walters For Agri-View

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Mark Walters lives near Necedah, Wisconsin. An outdoor-adventures writer since 1989, he enjoys hobby farming, adventure and anything outdoors. "If I wasn't earning a living as a writer I would want to be a beef farmer," he says. Email sunsetoutdoors@tds.net to reach him.