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Healing in the Pasayten Wilderness — Paula MacKay The 17-mile backpack up to Ashnola Mountain feels much longer when your legs are burning and the flies are biting. I’ve visited this remote and delectably lonesome destination several times since th...

Paula MacKay recounts our latest backcountry trip--to an area scarred by wildfire--in this gritty blog post. Hear (and see) what a trip into the wilderness is like for a field biologist.

@woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social

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Saving Wildlife: Discovering NW Nature Saving Wildlife: Discovering NW Nature

If you're interested in the Pacific Northwest, urban carnivores, wolverines, amphibians, bats, #conservationtechnology, or how woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social is conserving wildlife, check out fox13.bsky.social ‘s “Saving Wildlife.” The first episode just dropped:

www.fox13seattle.com/video/1642484

Seattle’s downtown is exceedingly more bikeable than it was just a few years ago. And, the waterfront bike path is finally complete, and a joy to ride!

Well said!. Furthermore, the habitat and co-occurring predators and prey that this species evolved with are no longer present (never mind the immense ethical and legal hurdles for ever re-introducing most of the species being discussed). This seems to be more a money-driven endeavor than anything.

I second all of Aerin’s comments about this program! I, too, was a 2015 Wilberforce Fellow, and it significantly changed both the way I look at my career, and my relationships with colleagues.

Thanks for serving in this valuable role, Meade. Despite all of this, your contributions to the field continue to be invaluable.

Rewilding Scout: Take Your Kids to Work Day — Paula MacKay Welcome to my new blog series about Rewilding “Scout,” a young Maltese on the path to rediscovering his wild side. I’ll publish posts occasionally so you can join me in watching him grow!

Ever wondered if a small, fluffy, very cute pup could hack it in the wilderness? Well, another new blog post from P. MacKay describes our most recent attempt to get at that question!

paulamackay.com/blog/gg7af25...

Getting Wild with Wolverines — Paula MacKay When Robert and I were recently invited to Zoo Montana to spend time with three wolverines, I was slightly apprehensive—though not for the reasons you might think.

A few weeks ago Paula and I got to meet some wolverines during a trip associated with our carnivore conservation work for @woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social

Read about it here!
paulamackay.com/blog/getting...

Wolverines!

The Variety Hour: November 2024 | WILDLABS You’re invited to the WILDLABS Variety Hour, a monthly event that connects you to conservation tech's most exciting projects, research, and ideas. We can't wait to bring you a whole new season of spea...

Interested in #ConservationTech? Come join another @wildlabsnet.bsky.social variety hour for a sneak peak at new exciting projects, including the wildlife scent dispenser we've developed to survey rare carnivores in tough-to-access regions. See you all there!

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Genetic connectivity of wolverines in western North America - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Genetic connectivity of wolverines in western North America

I'm very excited to share a new paper that used the largest wolverine genetic dataset ever assembled in North America to explore genetic connectivity of wolverines across western NA. Special congrats to lead authors C. Day, E. Landguth, and M. Sawaya
#wolverine #DNA

www.nature.com/articles/s41....

Exciting stuff! Bummer that “implying that UD models are not useful for rare species” 😔. Looks like there’s still a ways to go to crack that nut. I’m happy to see people trying, however!

I would love to be added…thanks! Mostly mesocarnivores…and, family-wise, primarily mustelids, felids, canids. Both wildland and urban. Policy and coexistence-wise, grizzly bears and wolves.

Twitter, as we knew it, no longer exists. “X” is a cesspool of misinformation and propaganda.

I’ve been reluctant to put a lot of energy into a “Twitter alternative” because none of them have taken off.

But I hope we can regain that global conversation someplace again. Maybe this is the place.

Suffering is Not Enough — Paula MacKay It would have been easy to feel alone today, with so many things I value rejected point blank. Peace. Compassion. Justice for all (species).

Sharing Paula MacKay’s short blog post from Wednesday—I know it helped me keep in mind the wonders, even in the midst of grief and tragedy.

paulamackay.com/blog/sufferi...

An overwinter protocol for detecting wolverines and other carnivores at camera traps paired with automated scent dispensers Ecology & Evolution is a broad open access journal welcoming research in ecology, evolution, and conservation science, and providing a forum for evidence-based views.

I’m really pleased that our paper describing an overwinter protocol for surveys of #wolverine s and other other #carnivore s is out! If you deploy #cameratrap s with an attractant, especially during winter, it might be of interest.

@woodlandparkzoo

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Episode 120: Carnivore Conservation in the Pacific Northwest With Paula MacKay and Robert Long Carnivore conservation in the Pacific Northwest, Northwest Cascades, with Woodland Park Zoo's Paula MacKay and Dr. Robert Long.

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_a_goldfarb @roamnjoe Robin Wall Kimmerer

@rewilding

rewilding.org/episode-120-...

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

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and learn more at
paulamackay.com/blog/fqydbgg...

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!

(On X)
@JasonTFisherLab @Fuller_Lab @chrissuthy @_sfrey_ @joburgar

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

Catching up on some posting backlog...

Thanks to the Seattle Channel and CityStream, and @IanDevier (on X) for the well-done piece about #coexisting with urban #coyotes in Seattle!

@samanthakreling (on X)

https://www.seattlechannel.org/CityStream/segments?videoid=x149930

First post here…hoping this platform takes off and I can switch permanently!

I study #carnivores in the Pacific Northwest using noninvasive methods, in collab with a wide variety of colleagues and entities. Projects focus on spp recovery, human-wildlife coexistence, and community engagement.