American Prairie Reserve: Working at the Forefront of Conservation Design
By Josiane SegarLandmark Crew Member Camera trap photo of pronghorn congregating on one of the Wild Sky ranches. If one thing has been impressed upon me in my two summers of working at American Prairie Reserve, it’s that setting up a large-scale...
Video: Sampling in the Shadow of Mount St. Helens
By Adventure Scientists Staff Award-winning filmmaker and wilderness guide Steve Weileman recently made this short film highlighting his experience taking water samples for Adventure Scientists’ Global Microplastics Initiative. Weileman hiked into...
Meet the Crew: September – December 2016
The Landmark Crew for Fall 2016. Pictured left to right: Saul Carrillo, Kathryn Davison, Sandy Van Dijk, Mathilde Granet and Colleen Ferris, our Landmark Program Manager...as well as Al Ferris. Photo: Mike Kautz Kathryn Davison is a traveling researcher from Northern...
Kicking Off Year Two of the Gallatin Microplastics Initiative
By Adventure Scientists Staff Guy Alsentzer and Kelsey Brasseur, our Microplastics Program Manager, train a new crew of volunteers at Bozeman Pond. Photo: Jeff Miesbauer This weekend Adventure Scientists kicked off the second year of our Gallatin Microplastics...
30 Rivers in 30 Days: How Whitewater Moves Us to Act
By Gerrit EgnewMicroplastics Adventure Scientist George and I looked upstream at Skyscraper, a rapid halfway down South Silver Creek, in the mountains near Placerville, CA. Beneath us was an undercut cave; we had been there for a while, scouting and fretting and...
Coyote Close Up: Sound Bites & Selfies
By Martina CapliceLandmark Crew Member An adult coyote, or prairie song dog, captured while walking nonchalantly by one of the Bushnell camera traps on a Wild Sky ranch. Canis latrans, the prairie song dog, the coyote, can be heard singing its story to the...
Capturing the Prairie Song Dog
By Martina CapliceLandmark Crew Member An adult coyote, or prairie song dog, captured while walking nonchalantly by one of the Bushnell camera traps on a Wild Sky ranch. Canis latrans, the coyote, the prairie song dog, can be heard singing its story to the endless sky...
Lying on Deck in the Sun is the Most Divine Feeling
By Maya WeeksMicroplastics Adventure Scientist Massive calving glacier seen from the ship. Photo: Maya Weeks Sørvika, Murchisonfjorden, NordaustlandetNow we are sailing and, having helped hoist a jib and the mainsheet, I’m so happy. Every day on this trip...
Science Spotlight: How to Map a Prairie Dog Town
By Otis WoodLandmark Crew Member Martina Caplice and Josiane Segar hiking out to map a prairie dog town (the green mound in the background). Photo: Otis Wood The ApproachThe sun has cooked the hardpan into hot white concrete underfoot and shimmers in the morning heat....
Video: Landmark Gathers Data to Encourage Wildlife-Friendly Ranching
By Adventure Scientists Staff Throughout the year, Adventure Scientists’ Landmark crews collect wildlife data on the American Prairie Reserve using camera traps and walking transects throughout the reserve. American Prairie Reserve uses...