Conservation Northwest protects and connects old-growth forests and other wild areas from the Washington Coast to the British Columbia Rockies, vital to a healthy future for us, our children, and wildlife. Since 1989, Conservation Northwest has worke
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Conservation Northwest updates Adopt a Monitoring Team—Send them tracking! Love seeing photos of Washington's wildlife? Did you know that it's sixty field volunteers who get these photos? Their work helps protect animals such as grizzly bears, wolves, fishers, lynx, and wolverines. Today you can sponsor a Citizen Monitoring Team, helping fund field mileage, motion triggered remote cameras, and supplies. Donate today at www.conservationnw.org noting "citizen wildlife monitoring." Or call Julia at 800.878.9950 x 10 to make a gift by phone! $150 Sponsor one volunteer team member (mileage for 1-2 trips and supplies). In return, you get end of season photos and a final report; team member name and camera location; Conservation Northwest wolf and grizzly bear stickers; and our mug featuring a remote camera photo of wildlife. In return, you get all of the above, plus one small framed remote camera photo from this season. Since 2001, Conservation Northwest has monitored wild areas in Washington for the presence of rarely-seen animals of the Northwest, including lynx, wolverine, and wolves. Our Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Program gets people out into the field to help us better understand wildlife movement and animal presence in the Washington Cascades. Spring through fall, we place motion-triggered remote cameras in wild locations to capture photos and document wildlife presence. In winter, we find and follow animal tracks to document travel patterns. Field volunteers, tracking wolverines in the Cascades. Photo Adam Martin In return, you get all of the above, plus one summer wildlife update. We've documented rare carnivores in the roadless forests of the North Cascades, Kettle River Range, and Selkirk Mountains, all the while coordinating with state and federal agency biologists. In 2008, our volunteer-operated cameras documented the first wild wolf pups born in Washington, bringing to light the natural return of wolves to Washington for the first time in over 70 years. $500 Sponsor a monitoring team (mileage for three trips and supplies, incl. memory cards). Your financial support ensures that this program continues to use the best science and proper equipment to track wildlife in Washington. Thank you so much! $275 Sponsor a new monitoring camera for one of our teams to use. which the ice and snow-covered slopes of Jim Hill stood with shadows and lighting you'd expect in an Ansel Adams photograph. The other people in my team responded joyfully. It was a moment that let me reflect on the other reasons I love the opportunity to do this work. It's nice to just get out into the Big Wild, and share that experience with others. While the wolverine has still evaded our detections this far south, we know they are out there, and though we weren't rewarded with their verifiable presence, we received gifts in other ways. Here at the edge of Lanham Lake, in the sparkling snow of spring, just knowing a wolverine could be in this land, in all its ruggedness and hostility, heightens my experience. It was time to get moving again. Wolverines seldom rest, neither should wildlife trackers. We shrugged into our packs and took off through the snowy woods. Keeping the Northwest wild Conduct your own citizen science as you travel Interstate 90 through the Cascades. Take part in I-90 Wildlife Watch, reporting wildlife sightings in this important wildlife connectivity corridor. Spring/Summer 2011 19