About the Author: Jini Scammell-Tinling is the Chief of the Division of Water Resources for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Sacramento, California office. Her avocations are computers, genealogy, the out of doors, and model building. She is a wife and mother of two, Heather and Colleen. Her husband, Steven Tinling, is a biomedical researcher and laboratory manager for the Department of Ear, Nose and Throats Otology Laboratory at the University of California at Davis Medical School. Heather (left) has a bio is in the second sidebar of this article.