The Land Loves Us Back
Plus, learn about our riverscape restoration work with local landowners, see our staff in the news, and join our current projects!
Photo from a Boreal Toad Project survey. By Sierra Hastings (cropped).
We're excited to hold three of our project volunteer trainings—Utah Pollinator Pursuit, Wasatch Wildlife Watch, and the Boreal Toad Project—in person this year at the Natural History Museum of Utah!
Join our incredible volunteers and passionate project leads to celebrate Earth Day and get trained to support wildlife and lands over the summer.
The Land Loves Us Back
Our Riverscape Restoration work involves many partners all united in a shared goal: healthier landscapes that can sustain future generations of wildlife and people. Along Chalk Creek, Utah, a committed group of landowners have worked tirelessly over many years to heal the stream.
Check out our recent video to hear these landowners tell their stream restoration story.
Welcoming Our New Riverscape Project Manager!
Jens Ammon releases a beaver as part of a stream restoration project.
We're excited to welcome Jens Ammon to our team as Riverscape Project Manager on our Riverscape Restoration project! Working with Stream Ecologist Rose Smith, he will help grow our work restoring streams and riparian areas across the West.
Jens says, "From what I’ve seen, solving our environmental issues works best when it is a community effort. Sageland Collaborative creates that community, and I’m so glad I have the chance to be a part of it." Learn more about Jens below!
Weekend Effect Paper Published Through Wasatch Wildlife Watch
Photo from a Wasatch Wildlife Watch field camera.
Check out one of our recent publications, made possible by our amazing community of donors and volunteers. The University of Utah's recent article says of this paper: "Along wild-to-urban gradients and especially within less developed areas, human recreation can affect wildlife behavior, especially during peaks in human recreational activity.
In a new study published in the journal Animal Behaviour, large-scale citizen science camera trapping helped assess whether periodic increases in human recreational activity elicit behavioral responses across multiple mammal species in northern Utah."
In the News: Staff Op-Ed
Recent op-ed article authored by Sageland ecologist Janice Gardner. Published in the Salt Lake Tribune.
Janice Gardner directs our Migratory Shorebird Survey, which involves counting birds at Great Salt Lake to understand how populations are faring across the entire transnational flyway. In her recent op-ed in the Salt Lake Tribune, Gardner discussed an emotional discovery as a scientist working for the lake.
She says, "It was another mundane, quarterly gathering of technical experts and brine shrimp harvesters reporting data on Great Salt Lake. Yet, in the middle of the meeting, I found myself — a biologist who has worked with the lake for 15 years — escaping from the conference room to cry in the bathroom..."