by Adventure Scientists | Dec 8, 2016 | adventure, adventure scientists, camera trap, citizen science, collect, film festival, Uinta Mountains, ultrarunning, utah, Wildlife, wolverine
By: Danny Schmidt & Victoria Ortiz Solitary, elusive, and badass – meet the real wolverine In February of 2014, a remotely triggered camera in Utah’s rugged Uinta mountains captured a picture of something no one thought possible in the...
by Adventure Scientists | Jan 27, 2016 | adventurers and scientists for conservation, camera trap, Uinta Mountains, Video, Wildlife
The Uinta Mountains are a place of superlatives: This is home to Utah’s highest peak, its largest wilderness area, and the tallest east-west mountain range in the lower 48. With extensive alpine high country and more than 1,000 lakes, it hosts wildlife...
by Adventure Scientists | Dec 2, 2015 | camera trap, Landmark, Uinta Mountains, Video, Wildlife
ASC’s Landmark crew caught this mountain lion on a camera trap in northern Montana. Big cats are magnificent, powerful creatures, with incredible stealth and hunting prowess. Their populations are in decline worldwide, caused by habitat loss and conflict...
by Adventure Scientists | Aug 25, 2015 | camera trap, Uinta Mountains, Wildlife
By Emily Stifler WolfeASC Staff When Brittany Ingalls and Caitlin Pennington first tried to set up their camera trap near the 10,767-foot Bear Lake, the trail was impassible, blocked by thick deadfall. “We crawled through a quarter mile of blowdown, under and...
by Adventure Scientists | Jul 30, 2015 | camera trap, Uinta Mountains
Wildlife and Solitude in the High Uintas The women stop to survey the trail ahead on the East Fork of Black’s Fork. (Photo by Lila Leatherman) By Dory TrimbleASC Uintas Adventurer Our day starts in the water. The rocks are slick, brown, unreliable against our...
by Adventure Scientists | Jun 10, 2015 | Uinta Mountains, wolverine
In Search of Lynx and Wolverines in the Uinta Mountains Canada Lynx (Photo by Emmanuel Keller) By Grace Kay MatelichASC Media CoordinatorOur planet is home to more than 7 billion people and 8.7 million known species. 5,416 of those species are mammals. As humans, we...