Field Notes: Conservation Impact Stories

Planting Hope Beneath the Surface for the Next Generation

by Chrissy Very | October 9, 2026 | community, conservation, coral, oceans, women | 0 Comments

In partnership with:The Roatan Marine Park (RMP) is a non-profit organization and co-manager of the Bay Islands National Marine Park. Founded in 2005, its work spans marine protection, infrastructure, community development and research. RMP operates Central America’s...

Whitebark Pine Conference Recap from Forest Programs Manager, Lila

by Chrissy Very | October 6, 2026 | community, conservation, tree health & resilience, whitebark pine, women | 0 Comments

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 Scientists. This wasn't my first Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation (WPEF) conference, but it was my first...

5 Things a PNW Volunteer Wishes He’d Known Before Backcountry Trekking

by Chrissy Very | September 25, 2026 | adventure trekking, citizen science, hiking, pacific northwest | 0 Comments

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...

Filling the Whitebark Pine Data Gap

by Chrissy Very | September 23, 2026 | pacific northwest, protect, skiing, snow, tree health & resilience, whitebark pine | 0 Comments

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 cones on the...

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

by Adventure Scientists | September 17, 2026 | adventure scientists, citizen science, conservation | 0 Comments

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 | September 8, 2026 | community, conservation, coral, women | 0 Comments

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 asks trained...