About me
Robby Edgel received his master’s in wildlife and wildland conservation from Brigham Young University in 2014. For his master’s thesis, he studied the response of pygmy rabbits (Brachylagus idahoensis) to the impacts of energy development. After graduation, he has worked for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources as a wildlife habitat biologist for over ten years. In that role, he works closely with the Utah Watershed Restoration Initiative to implement landscape-scale restoration projects that are focused on improving the habitat for all fish and wildlife species. He finds great satisfaction when he has seen fish or wildlife species return to an area that was previously uninhabited due to poor habitat quality after a restoration project was completed. He has worked on over 100 habitat restoration projects in central Utah and has helped to restore thousands of acres of wildlife habitat and many miles of streams and wetlands. One example of a project that he is particularly proud of is the natural restoration of the Fairmont Pond in SLC. He is very excited about the opportunity to do more work along the Wasatch Front because he understands that human activity has greatly altered and damaged many of these ecosystems. He feels that there is great potential to improve and restore fish and wildlife species populations along the Wasatch Front. He looks forward to sharing more about what he hopes to accomplish alongside the many partners and volunteers who care so much about these wild places.
