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Figure 2. Examples of images we captured for raising awareness of North Cascades wildlife. Based on the chest blaze
pattern, the wolverine pictured here is likely a female, named Stella, identified in 2015 by the North Cascades
Wolverine Study.
Two American marten American marten Two bobcat
Wolverine Wolverine rolling in scent Snowshoe hare
Objective 3: Winter Recreation Community Outreach
We presented in October 2017 at the Northwest Snow and Avalanche Workshop in Seattle to an
audience of 600, which was then publically posted to Facebook and watched more than 1400 times. In
January at The Mountaineers in Seattle we introduced our project in conjunction with an adventure
slideshow by ski guides Forest McBrian and Trevor Kostanich, who volunteered to represent our project
at the Foothills branch of the Mountaineers, the annual Olympic Mountain Rescue banquet, and at Pro
Guiding Service in North Bend. This May we are slated to present in Ballard, Seattle at the outdoor
retailer Ascent Outdoors in collaboration with Patagonia and Conservation Northwest.
The amount of support and interest among mountain recreationists has been remarkable. We
opened a social media account on Instagram to share select wildlife images; currently we have over 400
followers. Four separate recreationists found either our website or Instagram page to report wolverine
observations, including tracks on Mt. Baker (October 2016), upper Entiat drainage (September 2017),
east of Mt. Rainier at Sourdough Gap (March 2018), and an encounter on Cascade River road (April
