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You can make a difference in your community. We can help!I-90 Wildlife Camera Project
For this project, Defenders of Wildlife partnered with Conservation Northwest, I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition, and Wilderness Awareness School to conduct citizen monitoring of wildlife in Washington’s Cascades mountains.
The goal of the project was to track the presence of all wildlife using habitat near the proposed crossing structures along I-90 as well as to document and collect data on wildlife presence in core habitat areas of the North Cascades, with some cameras targeted towards rare species such as lynx, wolverine and the North Cascades grizzly.
Our volunteers worked together in teams to install the cameras and have been going out monthly since May 2008 to check the footage. Recently, when the volunteers checked the footage, they found 6 wolf pups on the film! The program has also captured images of lynx, wolverine, and other exciting images of rare wildlife. View a slide show of images from wildlife monitoring program.
Volunteers from Defenders of Wildlife and Conservation Northwest hike to their next installation location
Setting up the camera
Setting up the camera - the lure used smelled so bad that the volunteers were laughing
Six wolf pups have been confirmed in Methow Valley.
Read more about the sighting on our blog: My Yellowstone Wolves
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