by Chrissy Very | Sep 25, 2026 | adventure trekking, citizen science, hiking, pacific northwest
Christian Murillo spent his summer bushwhacking off-trail through Pacific Northwest forests to retrieve wildlife recorders. Here are the five tips he wants you to know before backcountry trekking for science. Christian Murillo is a nature photographer that has spent...
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...
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. In partnership with:The Roatan Marine Park (RMP)...
by Chrissy Very | Aug 25, 2026 | adventurer spotlight, Audio, biodiversity, hiking, pacific northwest
Matt Leitzinger spent a June Saturday placing acoustic recorders in trailless country in the Glacier Peak Wilderness. By late summer, fires were surrounding them. There’s a word for it, and Matt Leitzinger didn’t learn it until afterward. He had described the worst...
by Chrissy Very | Aug 19, 2026 | Audio, biodiversity, conservation, hiking, pacific northwest
With wildfire season approaching, more than 100 wildlife recorders still need to be retrieved from remote forests across the Pacific Northwest. Every device recovered helps turn months of sound recordings into valuable conservation data. Somewhere in the backcountry...
