Who We Are
Brian D.S. Graeb, Ph.D.
Brian hails from the shortgrass prairie of Eastern Colorado. As a boy, he fished the Republican River, and his first fisheries job was right in his hometown at the Wray State Fish Hatchery. First getting a bachelor’s in Fisheries Science from Colorado State University, he went on to earn his Master’s from the University of Illinois and then his Doctoral Degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Science at South Dakota State University.
As a professor, Brian became a trusted resource for state and federal biologists and managers, and his habitat research created a renaissance in fisheries science that has changed the landscape of lake and pond management. Teaching and research were just the beginning for Brian, who believes that science has to produce results.
Science-based fisheries management is what he calls it, and you’ll never hear him say, “because this is the way we’ve always done it.”
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Katie N.B. Graeb, Ph.D.
Katie has fishing in her DNA as a native of the big north woods and waters in Northern Minnesota. Family vacations were almost exclusively fishing trips, and Katie knew she had found her calling when she took a winter aquatic ecology course as a freshman at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN.
She went on to earn her doctoral degree from Kansas State University, and as a fisheries professor at South Dakota State University, she re-wrote the map on stream fisheries resources in South Dakota.
Katie loves figuring out how the food web is functioning on a client’s property so that she can maximize the transfer of energy into top species, and optimize water quality for recreational enjoyment.
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Our Promise
At Blue Wing Outdoors, science-based management is the backbone of our business. We will uphold the traditions of stewardship and conservation, and leave an ecosystem better than we found it. We strive to make our business model and management system unique to every client, so that our ability to provide quality service and a quality outcome is never in doubt.
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About Us
Drs. Brian and Katie Graeb
Created by Drs. Katie and Brian Graeb, Blue Wing Outdoors is a fisheries and wildlife management business that takes the next step in applied fisheries science. Their specializations illustrate their comprehensive process, with Brian’s expertise in population level sport-fish and lake management being the perfect complement to Katie’s community and ecosystem non-game conservation knowledge.
