Pat Higgins has lived in Humboldt County since 1972. After visiting the north coast on fishing trips in his teens, Pat decided to attend Humboldt State and took root in Humboldt County. He has contributed to the community as a business person, creating dozens of jobs over a 30 year career. Pat has volunteered thousands of hours for diverse organizations. He loves the outdoors, baseball and fishing. He is politically active and concerned that Humboldt County maintains its identity and local control.
Pat Higgins has been a successful entrepreneur in Humboldt County for 30 years and has created dozens of living wage jobs. This practical experience helps Pat understand economic cycles and the needs of the business community.
Pat Higgins is a regional expert on Pacific salmon and watershed restoration. He has written chapters in large scale fishery restoration plans, and helped monitor and evaluate restoration programs. His knowledge will help him work effectively toward abatement of water quality problems and restoration of flows necessary to recover salmon.
In the last decade Pat has helped create the Klamath Resource Information System database and website www.krisweb.com to support long-term management and trend monitoring for salmon recovery. The system has now been applied to 70% of northwestern California and as far away as the Gulf of Maine, where it is being used to assist in Atlantic salmon recovery.
Since February 2004, Pat has been working with the Kier Associates Natural Resources consulting group to assist the water quality departments of five Indian Tribes in the Lower Klamath Basin with abatement of water quality problems and dam removal. You could learn more on-line at www.klamathwaterquality.com, which is a website Pat helped the Tribes post that explains the Klamath River Hydroelectric Project effects.