Conducting Science with Citizen Volunteers

Community volunteers work with Challenge staff to support a variety of natural resource monitoring and data collection needs.

Several intrepid residents have ventured out on snowmobiles to sample streams as part of a Southwestern Crown Collaborative project to monitor the effects of roads and wildfire on water quality. In the summer, volunteers help us measure streamflows on key Blackfoot River tributaries. Trumpeter swan, long-billed curlew, and common loon population and nesting data are collected yearly by watershed volunteers. And our Recreation Program works with volunteers to collect visitor use data at popular access sites to help us better manage the impacts of recreation use on natural resources.

If you’d like to be a citizen scientist for the Blackfoot or volunteer to help with outreach and education events, click the button below!