by Chrissy Very | Nov 2, 2026 | adventure scientists, citizen science, conservation, tree health & resilience, whitebark pine
Once a year, the Adventure Scientists team leaves home offices and meets in one place to put our work under real pressure. This fall, we spent four days in Montana’s Tom Miner Basin taking our volunteer program apart, rebuilding how we measure impact, and ending...
by Chrissy Very | Oct 16, 2026 | biodiversity, citizen science, hiking
Skookum Dave spends his days transcribing a pioneer’s journals about the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Then he hikes the same ground to place wildlife recorders. My name is Skookum Dave, and I’m haunted by a man named George F. Wright. I’m a...
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 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...
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...
by Chrissy Very | Jul 23, 2026 | Audio, biodiversity, citizen science, pacific northwest
What happens when the data needed to protect forests, wildlife, and public lands lives in places most people will never see? When longtime Adventure Scientists volunteer Ryan read the project description, she laughed. “Bushwhacking into the woods after a 20-mile...
