Filling the Whitebark Pine Data Gap

by Chrissy Very | Sep 23, 2026 | pacific northwest, protect, skiing, snow, tree health & resilience, whitebark pine

A volunteer on skis can find what the Forest Service can’t easily reach. Here’s how ski tourers and splitboarders are closing the whitebark pine data gap. Somewhere in the Oregon Cascades, a Forest Service crew is deciding which trees to climb. Cage the...

Where Adventure Scientists Is Headed: A Fixed Point on the Horizon

by Adventure Scientists | Sep 17, 2026 | adventure scientists, citizen science, conservation

Adventure Scientists’ new Executive Director, Lara Birkes, names the fixed point Adventure Scientists is steering toward and what it will take to get community and volunteer-collected data into the global policy frameworks that advance solutions for nature and...

In Roatán, Women Are Running the Reef Work

by Chrissy Very | Sep 8, 2026 | community, conservation, coral, women

This photograph from Roatán shows a team loading dive tanks onto a boat before a reef monitoring run. Every person in the frame is a woman. It isn’t a staged shot, and in Honduras, it isn’t unusual anymore. Reef monitoring is not a one-time activity. It...

I Hiked Eight Miles Looking for Butternut Trees and Didn’t Find One. That’s Still Data.

by Adventure Scientists | Sep 4, 2026 | adventurer spotlight, citizen science, hiking

Guest writer and volunteer, Serena, shares her POV from the Cascade Brook and Mount Pemigewasset trails. Experience eight miles in the backwoods and a fast-moving storm on her search for threatened butternut trees. Watch Serena’s experience here → Serena is an...