Coexisting with wildlife on Wednesday's Access Utah

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!

Sarah WoodburyMay 18, 2022black rosy finch, conservation, birding, utah birdsComment

Finding the Black Rosy-Finch - UPR's Wild About Utah

High in the snow-covered mountains of Northern Utah, Kim Savides, a graduate student in the Department of Wildland Resources at Utah State University waits for the daily avalanche report during winter months. If favorable, she ventures out to remote bird feeders in hopes of finding black rosy-finches.

The finches thrive in bad weather. When it’s a clear, sunny day Savides knows her likelihood of seeing a finch is slim. But on nasty, snowy, windy days she can count on seeing hundreds of the finches around the feeders…

Sarah WoodburyJuly 7, 2020black rosy finch, conservation, birding, utah birdsComment