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Cascades Wildlife Monitoring
A volunteer-driven project to monitor wildlife presence in the I-90 corridor and core habitats of the North Cascades
In the field with citizen volunteers
We've got wolves! See photos captured by our cameras of the first verified wolf pack, with puppies, in Washington in over 70 years.
Watch a YouTube video from a participating citizen camera maintained in the Teanaway
The Cascades Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project puts people on the ground to document and better understand wildlife movement and presence of animals, from bear to wolverine, in the Washington Cascades. Volunteers on the project combine wintertime snow tracking with year-long motion-sensitive remote camera work.
The I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition fiscally sponsors and manages the project together with the Conservation Northwest and the Wilderness Awareness School. Staff from the school train volunteers to run wintertime wildlife tracking transects. Teams visit habitat near wildlife-crossing structures proposed for Interstate 90 from December to March to record priority wildlife, from trailing a pine marten in the Hyak corridor to identifying cougar tracks near the proposed Rock Knob overpass on I-90.
This year we'll place cameras in the Pasayten Wilderness, Twisp River, Gold Creek, Hyak Creek, Kendall Peak, Price/Noble Creek, Teanaway River, North Cascades National Park, Twin Lakes, Crater Moraine, and Manastash Ridge.
Final results
from all data collected from snow tracking and other sources are worked
into a report each year that can be viewed along with photos. Thanks to our excellent citizen volunteers as well as our expert advisory team members for their ongoing contributions to the project.