Creel Worker

POSITION SUMMARY: This role is intended for a partnered team, and both applicants must submit individual applications. While applying as a pair is preferred, applicants who do not apply with a partner will be assigned a partner by the Creel Manager or GLIFWC Warden from the pool of applicants. 

Creel Coordinator

POSITION SUMMARY: Creel Coordinators typically work in teams of two, and if you do not have a partner, the Creel Manager will assign one. On your application, please list the area/location you are applying for. 

Under the supervision of the Creel Manager, Creel Coordinators assist with coordinating nightly creel operations, provide day-to-day support and guidance to Creel Workers, and help monitor and record spring fishing harvest activities at assigned lakes or rivers. 

Creel Manager

POSITION SUMMARY: The Creel Manager oversees the daily administrative operations of the spring creel program during the tribal fishing season. This position supervises Creel Coordinators and ensures staff scheduling, equipment tracking, and landing site assignments are organized and functioning smoothly. 

The Creel Manager works closely with wardens and administrative staff to support field operations, assist creel staff with questions, and help coordinate program logistics throughout the fishing season. 

Conservation Education

Conservation education 

Over four wintry days, 40 natural resources students and professionals gathered to discuss careers in conservation at Lowenwood near Land O’Lakes, Wis. Organized by UW-Oshkosh Student Environmental Action Coalition and Wisconsin GreenFire, the Annual Wisconsin Conservation Retreat promoted skill building and provided college students a space to learn and build relationships with conservation professionals working in the field.

Bizhikiins Circles Back to PIO

Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings returns to GLIFWC to head up the Public Information Office. Jennings served as PIO director from 2017 to 2021, moving on to continue graduate studies in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison. During his GLIFWC hiatus he taught at Northland College and LCO Ojibwe University and served as Red Cliff Band Treaty Natural Resources Administrator. He was also appointed by Governor Tony Evers to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Board.

Fisheries Aide

This is a limited-term (LTE) position. Dates of employment are not fixed but will run approximately 2-3 weeks after ice out. 

 Assist with nighttime electrofishing and/or daytime fyke netting of adult walleye in Ceded Territory waterbodies. Persons will help net fish, launch and/or operate boats, and collect biological information and samples from captured fish. The ability to travel for up to three consecutive weeks is required. Overnight lodging, per diem, and mileage are provided by GLIFWC. 

Ice on Keweenaw Bay

Baraga County, Mich.

Just off the Sand Point Lighthouse in the heart of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community nearly 100 people dropped their lines through the ice on a bright February morning.

The Band’s Natural Resource Department (NRD) measured 10 inches of ice just before the 4th Annual Family Ice Fishing Day kicked off. “It’s about 60’ deep where most people are fishing out there, " said Outreach Coordinator Austin Ayres, KBIC tribal member who has worked at the Band’s natural resource department since 2012. 

Manoomin, nibi, and indigenous homelands take center stage in address to lawmakers

Madison, Wis–For the 22nd time, at the invitation of the Speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly, the annual State of the Tribes Address commenced. Chairwoman Nicole Boyd Bimikawekwe (Woman Who Leaves Tracks Where She Walks) took the podium to deliver the tribes’ message to the 107th legislature and a jubilant crowd. 

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