Summer 2018 - View of the South Fork valley of the Shoshone River near Cody, Wyoming with collaborating ranchers in the foreground. I spent the summer of 2018 meeting with ranchers, wildlife managers, and other collaborators to make sure everyone was on board with fieldwork before we started in 2019. Most of the “meetings” were on horseback moving cattle and exploring the country we’d be traversing for fieldwork following wolves.
Winter 2021 - View of Will looking down the South Fork Valley of the Shoshone River from one of our wolf GPS clusters on a collaborating ranch.
Summer 2020 - View of Guada, Stephi (& Ollie), and April hiking to investigate wolf GPS clusters near Francs Peak, the tallest mountain in the Absaroka Range. This is also a place where cattle have been grazing for 100+ years, grizzly bears feed on moth sites, and pronghorn hang out at 10,000ft+.
Summer 2018 - Moving cattle during one of our pre-field season “meetings”.
Fall 2016 - Helping with shipping for Lava Lake Lamb in Fish Creek of the foothills of the Pioneer Mountains near Carey, Idaho.
Winter 2019 - Photo of Stephi, Danielle and Lisa from the 2nd day of our very first winter field season. It was -30F and very windy and our eyelashes kept freezing together, but we found a kill!
Summer 2021 - Packing out multiple garbage bags full of wolf scat after a homesite scat collection near the Elk Fork in the Shoshone National Forest.
Summer 2020 - Group picture (Guada, April, me & Stephi) from Day 2 of our ride into the Thorofare in the Shoshone National Forest to check wolf GPS locations and collect scat for a pack that migrates to elk summer range by shifting their homesites along elk migratory routes.
Winter 2021 - The winter 2021 field crew (Will, Jenny, April & Rebel) pausing for a pic while climbing a snowy slope to check on wolf GPS points, which turned out to bed sites (as the tough ones always did!).
Summer 2018 - Moving cows out the South Fork.
Winter 2020 - Field crew (Danielle, Emily, Stephi & Hannah) happily postholing our way up Mesa Creek on the North Fork of the Shoshone to check wolf GPS points.
Winter 2021 - Posing with one of our field assistants and looking down at the South Fork (photo: April Wood).
