“We couldn’t let the animals stop the highway, we couldn’t let the highway stop the animals.” – Doug MacDonald, former Washington State Secretary of Transportation BY MAUREEN MCGREGOR, DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE If you are anything like me, you haven’t thought much about wildlife as you’ve cruised across the Cascade Mountains on Interstate 90, eager to engage … Continued
Note: This blog originally appeared on our I-90 Wildlife Watch project webpage. An effort to document wildlife movement around Snoqualmie Pass between North Bend and Easton, I-90 Wildlife Watch is led by CNW with support from Central Washington University, the Washington State Department of Transportation, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, the U.S. Fish … Continued
By Laurel Baum, Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project Coordinator Winter is here in the Cascade Mountains and our Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project volunteer teams are out documenting wildlife along Interstate 90! In addition to our annual remote camera field season, which typically runs from spring through fall with some sites operating through the winter, we conduct … Continued
Re-launched I-90 Wildlife Watch project asks motorists in Snoqualmie Pass area to report dead or alive wildlife By Alaina Kowitz, Communications and Outreach Associate Conservation Northwest and our partners are excited to announce the re-launch of the I-90 Wildlife Watch project, which aims to receive feedback on wildlife from motorists traveling on I-90 over Snoqualmie … Continued
By Aleah Jaeger, Special Projects Coordinator with the I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition The I Heart I-90 Wildlife contest is under way and we are receiving some fantastic entries from youth across Washington state. From puppets and Lego bridges to oil pastels, the creativity of the artwork we are seeing is very impressive. As we get closer to … Continued
Happy Friday Conservation Northwest members and supporters! Want to close out your work week with something special? Check out these awesome animal GIFs from the Washington State Department of Transportation’s remote cameras! The deer, coyote, geese and merganser ducks below are some of the first animals to use the two Gold Creek undercrossings in the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass … Continued