The Intriguing College Life of John Lindstrom

By Dustin Krueger



Picture was taken while John was working this summer.
Picture posted with permission of John



                John Lindstrom is a man in many lengths. Just not in his height of being 6 foot 6 inches, but also in his career and choice in Valley City State University.  He came in to Valley City in the fall of 2007 to start is knowledge in Fisheries and Wildlife management and to play some football.  He has had an enjoyable college experience so far and is on his senior year where is to graduate in the spring of 2011. Throughout the years at college John has learned to respect life more.  He has lost many friends from high school and some from the first years of college, but on the up side he has gained many friends, that will become lifelong friends.

                He started looking at VCSU back in his junior year in high school, when the coach Lagrand called John and asked if he was interested in playing college football and what his college career goals were. Throughout his senior year he thought about Valley and many other colleges that had either contacted him or he was thinking about. But the one thing that put VCSU over the top is that they just started a Fisheries and Wildlife Management program two years before he started college. John played football till his sophomore year in 2008, because of a plethora of injuries throughout his organized sports career. The one that put him over the top and he decided it was the end of his college football career was a fracture in his foot. But without morning weight lifting and many other football activities they had to do. John can now enjoy his fall hunting of waterfowl and upland birds. According to John, “North Dakota is way easier to hunt waterfowl and was one of the reasons for choosing VCSU.”

                He has already worked in two different fields to give him some experience in work. His first job was after his sophomore year in college and it was an avian restoration tech out of The Fisheries and Wildlife Service in Minnesota. There he assisted a Graduate student at looking at waterfowl habitat and judging how it looked. His second job was with the Fish and Wildlife Service in North Dakota where he was a biological science technician. There he worked with waterfowl also, he did nest dragging and counted the number of female’s ducks that flew from their nest and looked at their nest and counted eggs.  He also looked around at water bodies and looked for dead waterfowl if he found any he was to collect the species and it would be tested for avian flu. John has enjoyed his college choose and looking forward to the real life of work. No matter where it takes him.