Check out our 2022 Impact Report to reflect on everything you made possible on your favorite projects last year. Please reach out with any thoughts or questions. Thank you for all you do for our beloved land and wildlife in the West.
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May was American Wetlands Month, and we hope you celebrated by visiting one of these life-filled habitats scattered across the West. (If not, June is a great time for a wetland visit!)
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For those of us in the West, this winter felt like it may never end. Our dedicated Rosy-Finch Project volunteers, however, had an unlikely source of warmth: a finch that splashes pink across white winter skies.
Our riverscape restoration work involves many partners all united in a shared goal: healthier landscapes that can sustain future generations of wildlife and people. A committed group of landowners have worked tirelessly over many years to heal one Utah stream. Check out our recent video to hear these landowners tell their restoration story.
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In 2019, our team participated in a Bioblitz with BYU lichenologist Steve Leavitt, which resulted in a new lichen discovery. "As we looked, I recognized the genus of one lichen, but it was such a wacky, weird shape. Here we are in the middle of Glen Canyon, and we find this new lichen whose closest relative is in Scandinavia!” Discoveries like these are important disruptions in a world dominated by human perspectives and hierarchies.
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It's nearly time for our community science project trainings! This year, we're excited to announce that they will be held in person at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Register here to join us!
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Ask any conservationist, and they’ll agree on at least one thing: in nature, everything is connected. Whether focusing on fire management, bear population monitoring, human recreation, or the tiniest microbialites in Great Salt Lake, they know that pulling on one thread in the landscape brings all kinds of connected species, processes, and habitats with it.
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Over the summer, scientist Janice Gardner shadowed Tempe Regan into Idaho's alpine to look for mysterious birds in their rugged alpine habitat. Take a look at our recent video with Tracy Aviary to learn more about their mountain conservation work.
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It’s no secret that the Great Salt Lake is vitally important for shorebirds like phalaropes, avocets, stilts, and sandpipers.
From 1989 to 1995, in a large collaborative survey across the Intermountain West, scientists and state agencies counted shorebird populations in an effort to understand their abundance and migration. The data collected verified what observers knew: Great Salt Lake is essential for these species.
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In early 2020, volunteer Sierra Hastings found her life mixed up, as many of us did. In an effort to grow closer to nature, she decided to volunteer with conservation organizations, plunging into stream restoration at a volunteer day in Park City. She was hooked.
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