Photo 1: TWS Senior Ecologist Tim Fullman participates in the remote, multi-day IMAGO meetings organized by The Wilderness Society in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, where NGOs, tribal representatives, and community members discuss Indigenous approaches to Arctic conservation.

Photo 2: TWS ecologists visit the Fraser Experimental Forest in Colorado in the aftermath of a major mountain pine beetle epidemic in Lodgepole Pine. Forest Service research scientists Chuck Rhoades and Rob Hubbard led the tour of their research plots, where they found bark beetles cause less severe impacts to soil and water quality than logging or fire does.

Photo 3: TWS Lead Fisheries Biologist Jason Leppi collects Broad Whitefish (Coregonus nasus) tissue samples and otoliths (inner ear bones) as part of a research to understand Broad Whitefish movement, diet, and habitat use in the Colville River Alaska to inform freshwater fish conservation and NPR-A planning.

Photo 4: TWS Senior Conservation Biologist Pete McKinley leads a bird walk in Maine in support of the Maine Association of New Americans outdoor education kid program.

Photo 5: TWS Deputy Vice President of Science Travis R. Belote and Director of Science Application Matt Dietz collect forest measurements in a recent burn site within the Bob Marshall Wilderness, Montana as part of a collaboration with University of Montana to study wildfire impacts in wilderness.

Photo 6: Former TWS Landscape Ecologist Kevin Barnett collects a core sample from an old growth ponderosa pine tree in the North Umpqua, Oregon as part of TWS’s national assessment of old growth and mature forests on national forests.

Photo 7: Former TWS Landscape Ecologist Kevin Barnett collects a water sample for isotope analysis from the Colville River, Alaska as part of multi-day Arctic river expedition to help identify critical whitefish reproduction habitat.

Photo 8: TWS Research Director Mariah Meek collecting data on Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) climate adaptation in the Adirondacks, NY. Photo credit: Will Wetzel.