From January 1995 to the September of the same year she was a scientific aide at the California Department of Fish and Game in Monterey, California, where she worked on a salmonid habitat restoration project, which was focused on habitat restoration of Salmonidae species.
The mountain whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni) is one of the most widely distributed salmonid fish of western North America.
Some angling groups argue that the progress of migratory fish is delayed below the barrier as fish have difficulty finding the very narrow entrance to the fish pass and that excessive numbers of foraging seals are taking advantage of this delay and are predating these fish and thus damaging the recovery of salmonids on the Tees.