January 25, 7:00pm NCAS Membership Zoom Meeting - Registration Required

Dr. Jason Ransom will present an overview of wildlife research, monitoring, and conservation efforts currently happening in North Cascades National Park, Ross Lake National Recreation Area, and Lake Chelan National Recreation Area. The wide array of NPS projects presented will include long-term bird monitoring and trends, Clark’s Nutcracker and whitebark pine mutualism, raptor nesting, hoary marmot and American pika ecology, fisher reintroduction, gray wolf re-establishment, and mountain carnivore diet and ecology.

Biography: Dr. Jason Ransom is the Senior Wildlife Biologist at North Cascades National Park, Affiliate Faculty at Washington State University and Colorado State University, and serves on the IUCN Species Survival Commission. Across his 20+ years of research and conservation work, his research has included a wide variety of terrestrial wildlife issues, including crocodile ecology in southern Africa, sea turtle conservation in the Caribbean, ungulate research in Mongolia, Africa, and North America, bear and wolf ecology in Alaska, and bird, bear, alpine mammal, and meso carnivore research in the North Cascades. As a NPS scientist, he led the NPS national Threatened and Endangered Species Program before coming to North Cascades National Park, and now leads efforts to monitor bird species and restore fishers and grizzly bears, as well as research and monitoring of other sensitive species, in the North Cascades Ecosystem.