Who We Are

Wildlife Camera Network Northwest (WCN-NW) is highly collaborative in nature. Network members are developing common protocols and data-sharing opportunities for Northwest camera trap projects. The following organizations and institutions currently participate in WCN-NW:

• Woodland Park Zoo
• Cascades Carnivore Project
• City of Issaquah Parks & Recreation
• Conservation Northwest
• Edmonds Community College LEAF School
• Cascade Forest Conservancy
• Seattle University Jordan Lab
• US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife
• Washington State University Thornton Lab
• Wildlife Coexistence Lab, University of British Columbia
• Predator Ecology Lab, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington
• Ministry of Environment, BC Parks and Protected Areas

WCN-NW is coordinated by Dr. Robert Long of Woodland Park Zoo. Dr. Long has used camera traps to survey and monitor wildlife across the United States, and currently oversees camera-based research on wolverines in the North Cascades and with the Washington Urban-Wildland Carnivore Project. He served as lead editor for the book, Noninvasive Survey Methods for Carnivores (Island Press, 2008).