CCWMP Communications Protocol
Due to the potential social and political sensitivity of some species and the importance of this work
being shared in a scientific and thoughtful manner, the Cascades Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project has
a Communications Protocol for all volunteers and staff of the effort.
All photos taken by cameras owned by the CCWMP are owned by the non-profit organizations
sponsoring this effort, and we strongly encourage that any cameras not owned by our effort but
participating in it please follow this protocol as well.
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All photos taken by cameras and retrieved by teams are only released to people outside the
program by one of the three program sponsor organizations or by an agency affiliated with our
Advisory Council. Volunteers are not to share their results with anyone outside the program
directly.
Photos gathered off of a camera are sent in per the protocol above for review and decisions
about communicating.
If you feel you have captured a photo of your target species, a Level 1 or 2 species, or a unique
photo that interests you – you can upload it to Dropbox and alert our staff to view OR email
directly to our staff. Photos can be emailed simultaneously to kit@conservationnw.org and
jwatkins@conservationnw.org (to ensure that even if one of us is on vacation they are viewed).
Selected photos are shared on our website, and results reported monthly in our volunteer enewsletter. Requests for any photographs can be made through our program to
kit@conservationnw.org or jwatkins@conservationnw.org
Photos that need further identification or discussion are taken to our Advisory Council prior to
any wider release, and we will notify you of the discussion and outcome.
Any interaction with the media based on the results of a camera is decided upon by the host
non-profit organizations, and shared with the Advisory Council.
An annual report is prepared at the close of each season that will report on all results, and at
that time all results, with the exception of details of camera locations, are public knowledge.
If any member of the press approaches you about the program, please re-direct them to our offices and
staff.
Contacts for Remote Camera Work for 2012:
Project Director: Jen Watkins, jwatkins@conservationnw.org or 206.940.7914
Volunteer/Data Coordinator: Kit McGurn, kit@conservationnw.org or 206-637-9747 ext 201
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