Dan Baker

My love of the outdoors started very young growing up in rural Iowa. Family vacations were spent fishing for walleye and northern pike in Minnesota and Canada, while summers closer to home, were spent fishing local farm ponds for bullheads, bluegill and largemouth bass.

I continued my education at Iowa State University, where I graduated in 1987 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Fisheries and Wildlife Biology. This is also where I met Doug Young and started a great friendship. After working temporary positions with Indiana Department of Natural Resources and in California with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, my path again crossed with Doug's. Doug encouraged me to take a temporary position with Idaho Department of Fish and Game, so I packed up and moved to Stanley, Idaho. I started my career with IDFG in 1989 and have traveled around the Idaho hatchery system and currently manage the Eagle Fish Hatchery.

Looking for a hobby to fill my free time, I started custom matting and framing artwork in 1992. It seemed like a logical choice being surrounded by biologists collecting wildlife art, and knowing it would only be a matter of time for Doug to take his next step with his artwork. I have built Baker’s Custom Framing into a small business, which I continue to operate from my home. Baker’s Custom Framing is actively involved with Ducks Unlimited, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Idaho Conservation Officers Association, as well as many other charitable organizations.

The highlight of my time spent in Idaho has been meeting my wife Cyndi. We met in 1998, while Cyndi was working at IDFG Headquarters and I was Assistant Hatchery Manager at Nampa Fish Hatchery. We were married a year later in Weiser, Idaho, where Cyndi grew up. Cyndi shares my love of the outdoors and has out-fished me on many occasions fishing for crappie at Brownlee Reservoir.

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