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Spring is here, and you know what that means—our warm-weather conservation projects are right around the corner! You're invited to join us for our Utah Pollinator Pursuit and Boreal Toad Project volunteer trainings, coming up in just a month.

We are thrilled to welcome Austin Green to the Sageland Collaborative team as our newest Ecologist & Conservation Biologist! In this role, Austin will continue to lead the Wildlife Watch project while also developing a new program focusing on habitat connectivity.

Reflecting on this year, our team is filled with gratitude. From wetlands to neighborhoods to mountain peaks, our community covered huge swaths of ground to support wildlife conservation in the West.

After completing three years of region-wide rosy-finch feeder counts, this portion of our study is coming to an end. We've answered the important questions that we set out to, and we are proud of what our community of rosy-finchers has accomplished. 

We've loved celebrating Latinx/Hispanic American Heritage Month with our community, joining the Latinxs in the Field event, and sharing Latinx stories. To close this month with meaning, we're excited to share our latest video highlighting Emmanuel Santa-Martínez.

Happy Latinx/Hispanic American Heritage Month! We're grateful to celebrate with our amazing community of volunteers, donors, and friends.

We’re excited to announce our new Interim Executive Director: Janice Gardner! Gardner has been a Conservation Ecologist at Sageland Collaborative for over five years, leading with both a deep passion for wildlife and a marked ability to achieve large-scale conservation impacts.

Check out our 2022 Impact Report to reflect on everything you made possible on your favorite projects last year. Please reach out with any thoughts or questions. Thank you for all you do for our beloved land and wildlife in the West.

May was American Wetlands Month, and we hope you celebrated by visiting one of these life-filled habitats scattered across the West. (If not, June is a great time for a wetland visit!)

For those of us in the West, this winter felt like it may never end. Our dedicated Rosy-Finch Project volunteers, however, had an unlikely source of warmth: a finch that splashes pink across white winter skies.

Over the summer, scientist Janice Gardner shadowed Tempe Regan into Idaho's alpine to look for mysterious birds in their rugged alpine habitat. Take a look at our recent video with Tracy Aviary to learn more about their mountain conservation work.

It’s no secret that the Great Salt Lake is vitally important for shorebirds like phalaropes, avocets, stilts, and sandpipers.

From 1989 to 1995, in a large collaborative survey across the Intermountain West, scientists and state agencies counted shorebird populations in an effort to understand their abundance and migration. The data collected verified what observers knew: Great Salt Lake is essential for these species.

In early 2020, volunteer Sierra Hastings found her life mixed up, as many of us did. In an effort to grow closer to nature, she decided to volunteer with conservation organizations, plunging into stream restoration at a volunteer day in Park City. She was hooked.

If you've spent time near Utah's streams, you may have noticed something: many of them are straight, cut into the ground, or don't have much diversity of life gleaming in and around them. These things usually mean an unhealthy stream, and they are caused by things from beaver removal to development.

If you’ve ever seen a pink-splashed bird in high mountain habitat, count yourself lucky! You may have seen one of three species of rosy-finch.

“They’re incredible,” says Conservation Ecologist Janice Gardner. “Some of the most extreme slopes in the western United States serve as their summer habitats."

Volunteers on our projects—from our Boreal Toad Project to Utah Pollinator Pursuit—spend thousands of hours gathering important information about wildlife and habitats in the West. If you volunteer with or donate to one of our projects, you may have wondered where the information goes.