Camera Trap Top 10
By Alex HamiltonASC collects a lot of video which won’t ever be edited or published.For projects like Landmark and our Olympic National Forest Pine Marten Survey, we work with a diligent team of videographers. They stay immobile, day and night, recording at...
Turtle Ninjas
Story and photos by Nikki MannThese are not sword-wielding turtles moving through the shadows of society to defend humans. These are flashlight-wielding humans, moving through the shadows of society to defend turtles. They often work alone, usually at...
Land of Extremes
Yes, those are all mosquitoes. Story and photos by Laura Hitt One thing is certain: The prairie is a land of extremes. I arrived two weeks ago—wending down a dirt road beneath a huge cloud-speckled sky—a few days after a storm that dumped more than half...
Photos from Pakistan’s Rupal Peak
By Pericles A. Niarchos Rupal Peak signified more than an introduction to mountaineering for me. An Eagle Scout who once spent summers in the Adirondack Mountains, New York, I went to college with an interest in the hard sciences and exploration, but after years in...
Landmark: Meet the October Crew
Landmark is ASC's groundbreaking project to provide "boots on the ground" support for the American Prairie Reserve management team. Wildlife survey crews consist of skilled outdoors men and women who live and work on Montana's northern Great...
High Fashion on the Prairie
A good day for the mosquitoes Landmark crews have worked in -20 and +104 temps on Montana's vast grasslands this year; however, perhaps the greatest challenge any crew has faced has been the plague of mosquitoes caused by flooding in late August after more than...
What’s in your Face Wash?
A List of Products that Contain Plastic MicrobeadsBy Alex HamiltonYou don’t litter, you have a reusable water bottle and you put your groceries in cloth bags. But what’s in your shower? In the past decade, cosmetic companies have increased their output of...
Paddling With a Purpose
By Chuck DomenieThe trip hatched in June via text. "Call me when you get a chance, I have an idea!" I wrote to Sandra, who was in Glacier View, Alaska, where she spends summers glacier and sea kayak guiding. Almost four years ago to this date, Sandra and I had learned...
Landmark: The Longest Day
Landmark is ASC's groundbreaking project to provide "boots on the ground" support for the American Prairie Reserve management team. Wildlife survey crews consist of skilled outdoors men and women who live and work on Montana's northern Great...
Teton Gravity Research Film Features ASC
Alongside the release of Higher, the new Teton Gravity Research film featuring professional snowboarder Jeremy Jones, TGR and Clif Bar have teamed up to create a short film featuring Jones's work with ASC. Wait, what?! Yeah that's right, we're in a TGR short! "It's...