Today, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Buttigieg announced the new #WildlifeCrossings Pilot Program, making $111M+ available for the first round of competitive grant funding! Our coalition launched a website with info & resources for interested applicants. largelandscapes.org/news/wcpp/

Paula MacKay interviewed for new National Geographic piece about grizzly recovery in the #NorthCascades paulamackay.com/blog/national-…

Job Posting! Study Pacific martens on Washington's Olympic Peninsula this summer! Note: strong hiking abilities required. This is the second season of a two season study, so you'll get to revisit remote camera traps and see who visited! Details attached. UW SEFS 🌲

Hey, #cameratrap folks… If you work with #communityscience volunteers, how do you efficiently move images from the field to your desktop? GoogleDrive works, but there must be a better workflow! Roland Kays Mike Cove Cole Burton Jason T Fisher TEAM Network Wildlife Insights

Orcas Island Lit Fest—Book aficionados near Seattle might want to check this out, especially if you’re looking for an early-summer island getaway! paulamackay.com/blog/orcas-isl…

Calls of the Wild tidelandmag.com/articles/2023-… Learn about coyotes, & how people and these amazing canids can comfortably coexist in paulamackay.com’s newest piece in Tideland Magazine Featuring Project Coyote & Sam Kreling seattlecarnivores.org Woodland Park Zoo

Can anyone offer a recommendation for a data repository site that is acceptable to journals that require linking to data associated with papers? I’m seeing Zenodo, Dryad, and figshare, which look fairly comparable. Is it a matter of just picking one, or are there pros/cons?

I’ll gradually be shifting my social media presence to that sky place, but for now I’ll be sharing a few backlogged posts from the last month…

Catching up on some posting backlog... Thanks to the Seattle Channel and CityStream and Ian Devier for the well-done piece about #coexisting with urban #coyotes in Seattle! Sam Kreling seattlechannel.org/CityStream/seg…

Anyone used the Wiley preprint service “Under Review” (Authorea)? Allows citing of article prior to peer review, which seems counter to the purpose of peer rev! Also, enables comments from public, but “doesn’t affect review process.” Not sure the purpose, therefore. Thoughts?

New Urban Wildlife Information Network paper out in NatureEcoEvo where we answer how climate change affects urban biodiversity: species respond more strongly and negatively to urbanization in warmer and less vegetated cities. 🧵1/9 nature.com/articles/s4155…

This is going to be a great conference next week! Looking forward to learning a bunch about weasels—big and small—from new and old colleagues alike! Jason T Fisher Angela Fuller Chris Sutherland Sandra Frey Joanna Burgar martesworkinggroup.org/martes-symposi…

Hey ecology folks…I have a few free invite codes for 🟦🌅 DM me if you’d like to switch over!

New MSc or PhD opportunity, with a very cool project!

Paula MacKay's new abecedarian essay "Wolverines in a Land of Wildfire" is a poetic exploration of an amazing species in a wild and changing landscape. Check it out now in About Place Journal aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-mor… and learn more at paulamackay.com/blog/fqydbggzs…

Have you commented? This is your opportunity to speak up for grizzlies—The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service are accepting public comments until November 13, 2023. Leave a public comment in support of grizzly reintroduction: zoo.org/recovery/grizz…

P. MacKay and I enjoyed our recent convo on the RewildingEarth podcast covering a broad swath of topics #carnivore #cameratrap #noninvasive #scicomm #wolverine #grizzlybear #connectivity #scat #pnw Ben Goldfarb Joe Roman Robin Wall Kimmerer @rewilding rewilding.org/episode-120-ca…

I'm excited to be heading to #NACCB24 next week and would love to connect with folks interested in #cameratrapping , #carnivores , #noninvasive methods, #mustelids , and #wildlifesurvey topics. As an ecologist at Woodland Park Zoo, I'm always looking for new #pnw collaborations!

Paula MacKay weighs-in on the profound value to the planet of being a "childless dog lady" on both her blog, and in a @SeattleTimes Letter-to-the-Editor that was published last week: paulamackay.com/blog/seattle-t…