The Call of Autumn: Listen to Elk Bugling
Writing and Media by Dove HenryASC Landmark Crew Member Click above to hear the elk During the third week of September—the peak of the elk rut in Montana—the Landmark crew made a trip to the Slippery Ann elk viewing area in the Charles M. Russell Wildlife...
Mirrors in the Grass
Writing and Photography by Wesley GushASC Landmark Crew MemberYou can sense the history of the earth in this place. It’s everywhere you walk. The landscape is old; coursed and molded by massive fluvial processes millennia ago. To my South African eyes, however,...
Giant Fish, Tiny Plastics
Conservation biologist Lesley de Souza (right) studies Arapaima, one of the largest freshwater fish in the world. (Photo by S. Piper Kimmel) By Lesley de Souza ASC Microplastics Adventurer I plunge my arm below the surface of the water, feeling the weight...
ASC in the News: NPR’s Weekend Edition, Patagonia
Spreading the word about ASC projects is in our DNA, because public awareness is paramount to creating change. Check out these recent stories helping us facilitate that part of our mission! NPR Weekend EditionListen to Galen Koch interview ASC microplastics...
Outfoxing a Swift Fox
Crew member Wesley Gush expertly follows protocol, spreading lure on top of a wooden stake. Writing and Photography by Nika SladeASC Landmark Crew MemberThe odor that emanates from the back of our work vehicle has our five noses stuck out the windows, in hopes that...
Gallatin Microplastics Training Weekend
ASC trainer Guy Alsenzer and volunteer Andrew Daigh warm up on the Gallatin River before heading to their sampling sites. (Photo by Henry Worobec) This past weekend, 56 local hikers, climbers and boaters trained with ASC staff and guides for the launch of our Gallatin...
Running Across Iceland
Running into the Norðlingafljót Valley. (Photo by Jill Fineis) By Pavel Cenkl ASC Microplastics Adventurer If you trace Iceland’s south coast along the Atlantic Ocean to its beautiful north coast on the Greenland Sea, you’ll make a 240-kilometer arc across...
Meet the September/October 2015 Crew
Wesley Gush was born in Cape Town, South Africa, but moved to his family farm near Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape when he was 6 years old, where he has lived most of his life. He studied Conservation Ecology at Stellenbosch University and wrote his thesis on the...
Pressed Grasses from the Prairie
Our Landmark project is well into its second year, and this season our crews have contributed some particularly creative media. A member of the July/August crew, Josiane Segar took the time to collect, press and study different species of grasses on the prairie....
Moose Roadkill: A Vegetarian Goes Rogue
Approaching the Wrangell Mountains near Glennallen, Alaska. Photography and Writing by Danny WaldenASC Roadkill AdventurerOne night at a barbecue in Fairbanks, Alaska, a friend asked me if I wanted to try moose meat. "It's roadkill," he said with pride—the same...