Our friend and field technician, Burt Bjorling, passed away in September, shortly after completing his tremendous voluntary contributions to project field operations. Photo: Steven Gnam In the summers of 2019 and 2021 Burt worked in a full-time capacity, step-in-step with project field technicians half his age. https://videopress.com/v/I4yNix1h?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true All who worked with Burt appreciated his goodwill, … Continue reading Honoring Burt Bjorling

Are you interested in helping to fund our field research? We've launched an online campaign at https://experiment.com/bearbutter to crowdfund $5040 to hire one full-time field technician this summer, our last season of data collection. Our operating budget for the summer will be using carryover funds from 2020 and is insufficient to support a paid field … Continue reading Help us crowdfund for a summer field technician

6/3/2020 Update: Due to COVID-19 hardships, we've reopened our application window until June 17th for hiring one or more individuals. We will be conducting field research activities this summer under a strict COVID-19 mitigation plan, which technicians must be willing to follow while working in the field and residing in project housing on lieu time. … Continue reading Calling all wildlife-loving mountain men & women