Cascades wildlife monitoring
A volunteer-driven project to monitor wildlife presence in the I-90 corridor and core habitats of the North Cascades
Got wildlife? Got citizen volunteers
The Cascades Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project gets people out into the field to 
help us better understand wildlife movement and animal presence in the Washington Cascades. Volunteers combine wintertime snow tracking with year-long remote camera work.
This program is a partnership effort of Conservation Northwest, I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition, and the Wilderness Awareness School. Conservation Northwest takes the lead on all remote cameras that are not along Interstate 90 and which have a specific species focus. I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition is the lead on cameras along the interstate near key connectivity areas and proposed wildlife-crossing structures identified in the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East Project. And Wilderness Awareness School heads up the winter efforts tracking priority wildlife and carnivores, from bears to wolverines. Teams have trailed pine martens in the Hyak corridor and identified cougar tracks near the proposed Rock Knob overpass.
Highlights
- 2008-09 winter snowtracking report (4 Mb PDF)
- We've got wolves! See photos captured by our cameras of Washington's new wolf pack.
- Watch video from a Teanaway participating citizen camera.
- Pictures and highlights from this year's 2009 season are already coming in.
- 2008 monitoring report
- Great photos from 2008 monitoring report
- Current season volunteers, visit our volunteer resources.
Thank you, volunteers, advisory experts, and donors
This project happens only through the efforts of our excellent citizen volunteers as well as our expert advisory team members, and we thank them all for their ongoing contributions to the project. The Cascades Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project's advisory council taps the expertise and advice of Bill Gaines (Wenatchee-Okanogan National Forest), Chris Morgan (Grizzly Bear Outreach Project), Dave Moskowitz (Wilderness Awareness School), Don Gay (Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest), Jesse Plumage (Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest), Keith Aubrey (US Forest Service), Robert Long (Western Transportation Institute), Roger Christopherson (North Cascades National Park), and Conservation Northwest's own Joe Scott.
Many thanks also to the ALEA program of WDFW, Wilburforce Foundation, and the Washington Chapter of the Wildlife Society for supporting our program!
