Wasatch Wildlife Watch Team Updates + Thank You Event
We're so grateful for all the hard work you have done this season. It's certainly been a unique one, and our success wouldn't be possible without you, our community scientists.
Please don't forget to join us on Thursday for our virtual thank you event.
A Virtual THANK YOU to 2020 WWW Community Scientists
Two red foxes in the Wasatch. Credit: Wasatch Wildlife Watch wildlife camera.
Please join us for our optional Wasatch Wildlife Watch virtual thank you event to learn about:
Landscape-level wildlife habitat connectivity
The conservation value of the data you're gathering for Wasatch Wildlife Watch
Interesting information about related projects
When: Thursday, August 20, 12-1:30pm
Where: This is a virtual event.
How: Please register beforehand here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IEvn_XhWQ_K-9IA4ucyMbQ You'll receive an email with the Zoom link and information you'll need to join us. Don't forget to download Zoom beforehand. Password: wildlife
Equipment Return Sign-Ups
Don't forget to sign up for a time slot on August 22 or 24 to return your equipment.
Like the beginning of the season, we'll be social distancing, wearing masks, minimizing interaction, and spacing out volunteer visits to ensure the safety of our volunteers and staff.
August Community Scientist Highlight
Our Wasatch Wildlife Watch Community Scientist Highlight for this month is Lindsey Davis. She has been involved in Wasatch Wildlife Watch for three years and says she's "thrilled to be a part of a project like this."
Lindsey Davis setting up a Wasatch Wildlife Watch wildlife camera in the field. Photo credit: Camrin Dengel.
For her, the project is all about impact. She says, "It's incredible to see how the small acts of volunteers at scale produce widespread data that is being used to make important management and development decisions throughout the state."
One of the highlights of her three years on the project was when one of her cameras captured a black bear in an unlikely area. She says, "It's pretty incredible to see just how many animals are using the same trails at different times in the day. I love being able to peer into the unseen of the natural world this way."
Thank you to Lindsey and all our amazing community scientists for your hard work! Read Lindsey's online post to learn more about her experience.
Lindsey Davis is an advocate, writer, and ecologist based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Optional: Fall-Winter Monitoring
If you're interested in continuing to monitor your camera beyond this summer season, please add your name to our Fall-Winter Monitoring Signup Sheet.
Through the next few months on this project, we will only be sending updates to those on this list.
Optional: Image Analysis
To volunteer to sort photos from your camera or a camera from another specific location, please sign up on our spreadsheet.
If you'd like to review the photos from your camera, be sure to have them uploaded before the equipment return dates August 22nd or August 25th. You can watch the training to start analyzing your camera's images.
If you'd like to receive communications about image analysis this fall, please sign up to receive our image analysis emails here.
Thank You
Thank you for your work conserving native wildlife in the Wasatch. You make this project possible.
You can contact Austin Green or Mary Pendergast with any questions by emailing austin.m.green2015@gmail.com or mary@wildutahproject.org.
Additionally, if you take any photos or have interesting experiences, don't hesitate to share them with us—we love hearing from you! They also help us spread the word about our conservation projects like Wasatch Wildlife Watch.
To support this and other projects focused on science-based conservation, please consider making a gift today.