Camp out to connect with each other in a rare ecosystem, to celebrate solstice, and to help our partner Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation gather data about bumblebee populations in remote parts of our mission area.

Channelization has had major effects on the riparian systems of the West, which evolved to rely on frequent flood disturbance to create channel complexity and redistribute nutrients.

Spring is the right time to be in Hells Canyon. Between the mud and silence of winter and the inferno of summer (it’s called Hells Canyon for a reason, remember) is a brief window of soft warm rain and rapid greening.

I had the pleasure of traveling with Stefanie Krantz to Sandpoint, Idaho for a wildlife connectivity conference put on by Yellowstone to Yukon, one of GHCC’s partner organizations. Stefanie had been invited to the conference to give a talk on the Nez Perce Tribe’s adaptation work.