Meet the volunteers!

Volunteers are my project's [not so] secret ingredient :) I am so grateful from the depths of my soul for the time, sweat, scrapes, and waterlogged boots these folks endure. Their energy keeps me going. Their commitment to protecting our natural world inspires me. Here's a shout out to you, Team LOWA!

Mark Andrews - 2014-current; habitat surveys, nest searching.

David Bryant - 2012-current; habitat surveys, hemlock surveys, nest searching, official project photographer.

Margaret Cumberland - 2015; hemlock surveys.

Tim McGrath - 2015; nest searching, habitat surveys.

Aaron Mitchell (pictured below) - 2015; nest searching, habitat surveys (conducted >75% of surveys for the 2015 field season).

 

Emily Pickett - 2014-2015; habitat surveys, hemlock surveys.

Mac Post (pictured below) - 2013-current; habitat surveys, hemlock surveys, nest searching.

 

Richard and Keane Secrist - 2012-2013; habitat surveys, nest searching.

Sara Stonaha - 2014-2015; habitat surveys, hemlock surveys.

Jared Swenson, aka my life adventure partner (pictured below) - 2013, 2015-current; nest searching, habitat surveys, hemlock surveys, 2015 [free labor] field tech ;)

 

Terry Uselton - 2015-current; hemlock surveys.

Stacey Whetstone - 2012-current; habitat surveys, hemlock surveys (she and Mac conducted all 22 hemlock surveys for the 2013 field season!)

Seth Worley (pictured below) - 2015-current; hemlock surveys.