Fish and Game in the Alaskan Wilderness  The March 8, 2011, meeting of the Lake Auman Sports Club will feature a return engagement by Dan Pieroni, presenting a video entitled, “Fish and Game in the Alaskan Wilderness.”

This meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the Great Room at the West Side Park Community Center following a joint meeting of Seven Lakes North, South, West and McClendon Hills landowners with the Moore County Commissioners to update information on the Pine Forest development and answer questions about water issues before the county. Their meeting will adjourn at 6:30 p.m. and the public will be invited to attend Dan’s Lake Auman Sports Club presentation.

Dan Pieroni retired from his Ophthalmology practice twenty years ago and since that time has spent most of his summers working in Alaska as a volunteer field technician for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game doing fishery research in remote locations.

He returns to Kodiak, Alaska, each spring where he has taken up residency spending five to six months of the year living aboard one of his boats. Mostly retired from active volunteer work for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, he still does a lot of fishing, hunting, backpacking and cruising in the unpopulated parts of the Kodiak such as the Archipelago/Katmia Peninsula areas.

During the winter months, Dan and his wife, Nan, are at home in Seven Lakes West and Dan is active as an LASC member. He is known as the resident Dive Master spending many days in low 40 degree temperatures placing Christmas trees under docks and around Lake Auman, a LASC project to complement the fish habitat. He is also an avid long distance runner participating in 100+ mile races in the mountains of North Carolina.

Dan promises his new video will be both entertaining and informative and, unlike his previous presentations, will be more family-oriented, with sound, slides and video that will show off these beautiful land and marine mammals up close and personal, but not in a threatening way.