Cascades Wolverine Project - Winter/Spring 2021

Another successful winter season is under our belt. And our community science program has expanded! Our full report of the season will be ready in the fall. But until then, here are a few photos I took from this past season.

A sunset view of the North Cascades near Holden Village

Bonanza peak through burned forest from the Wolverine Fire in Railroad Creek watershed

Steph Williams and volunteer extraordinaire Erica Engle ski in to a new camera monitoring station

Prepping for the trip at the parking lot

The hazards of tree bombs for field work

Erica Engle sighting a camera at a run-pole station in the Twisp River watershed

Stephanie Williams collecting hair samples from a wolverine monitoring station

Beautiful snow drifts

Sun setting behind granite spires known as “The Watchers” by the Methow people, first inhabitants of this watershed

The charred remains of a forest after a forest fire near Lake Chelan

Another mountain specialist, a Clarke’s nutcracker posed for about 4000 photos at this station this winter

Another winter without a single wolverine detection in the Methow watershed from our monitoring stations. This black bear showed up in the spring at one station in the Early Winters Creek watershed

Wolverine detected in the Lake Chelan watershed

Another wolverine detection from above Holden Village in the Lake Chelan watershed

A twilight visit from gulo gulo