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).