by Chrissy Very | Oct 6, 2026 | community, conservation, tree health & resilience, whitebark pine, women
Full Circle in Tahoe: Bringing Whitebark Pine Data Back to the Community That Asked for It Landing in South Lake Tahoe for the first time ever felt like a full-circle moment. If we haven’t met: I’m Lila Sadler, Forest Programs Manager at Adventure...
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...
