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If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to be a beaver–wonder no more! Beginning August 29th, Sageland Collaborative kicks off our Riverscape Restoration season in streams and creeks across northern Utah.
You don’t have to travel far to meet wild neighbors in Salt Lake City. For over seven years, Sageland Collaborative and University of Utah’s Wasatch Wildlife Watch program has captured glimpses of our elusive wildlife neighbors via a network of trail cameras dotted throughout the Wasatch.
Our Executive Director, Janice Gardner, spoke with Fox 13 News about how federal funding changes are impacting our stream and river restoration projects across the Great Salt Lake and Weber River watersheds. Despite the setbacks, we remain committed to healing degraded streams and engaging our community in conservation projects.
Our team works passionately on multiple issues tied to Great Salt Lake. From riverscape restoration to our Migratory Shorebird Survey in Utah, our team cares deeply about the lake and communities who depend on it--from shorebirds to humans.
Check out The Nature Conservancy's recent article highlighting the work of Sageland Collaborative staff. Findings include bird activity as potentially linked to the shrinking lake.
We've been talking a lot about beavers, and we're not alone! CBS Mornings shared this story, which features our stream restoration site where we recently released beavers with our partners.
A huge thank you to the amazing group of volunteers at our recent Conservación de Castor event.
Thank you as well to our partners at GreenLatinos, Tracy Aviary, Latinos In Action, Arts de Mexico en Utah, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, and Salt Lake County Parks and Recreation who made this possible. Read the full Fox13 story here.
The health of the shrinking Great Salt Lake is "a matter of life and death for migratory shorebirds," according to Janice Gardner, Sageland ecologist quoted in a recent KSL article. "However, with the lake's water level dropping to historic lows two years in a row," the article continues, "shorebirds are slowly losing critical habitat."
As climate change, drought, and questions about water allocation converge in the West, scientists like stream ecologist Rose Smith work to find meaningful solutions. What kinds of issues can stream restoration help support? Read this recent Fox 13 article to learn what scientists are saying.
We're excited that Utah Public Radio recently hosted Wasatch Wildlife Watch project lead Austin Green. Austin discusses a recent study based on the project, all about how human influence is altering the behavior of several species in northern Utah. Listen to the story here.
Read the paper, published in Conservation Science and Practice, to learn more about effects of human development, environmental factors, and a highway on our Wasatch wildlife. This information is crucial to successful conservation and mindful development. And it's all thanks to our amazing Wasatch Wildlife Volunteers and donors, project leads Austin Green and Mary Pendergast, and our many partners. Thank you!
“On October 22, 2022, 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.”