Cascades wildlife monitoring

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"I think these monitoring programs are so important because it reminds us that we do indeed still live in a wild place and should do all we can to respect our shared spaces." - Mary Vermillion

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.

See more at on Flickr and YouTube.

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.

The 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.

Interested in volunteering?

Our 2011 season is full, but contact Kit McGurn (kit@conservationnw.org) to join our volunteer email listserv to be the first to learn of our next opportunity in the field.

Current season volunteers: Please visit our volunteer resources page

Wildlife monitoring reports

• 2010-2011 winter report (snowtracking and wolverine cameras, PDF)
• 2009-2010 spring-fall report
•  2008-2009 winter report (snowtracking, 4Mb PDF)
• 2008 spring-fall report

Wildlife photos and video

• Recent wildlife images at Conservation Northwest's Flickr site

• Pictures and highlights from 2009 season

• Great photos from 2008 monitoring report
• Watch video from a Teanaway participating citizen camera

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. 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 Joe Scott (Conservation Northwest).

Many thanks also to the ALEA program of WDFW, Wilburforce Foundation, and the Washington Chapter of the Wildlife Society for supporting our program! And a big shout out to Defenders of Wildlife for partnering with their volunteers in 2008 and 2009.

Adopt a monitoring team! Want to help keep this vital program going? Your gift will provide the best equipment, help volunteers get cameras placed, and make sure rare wildlife are documented. Become a wildlife monitoring team sponsor today.

For further information, please contact Jen Watkins.