Community volunteers work with Challenge staff to collect samples from local streams for water quality tests.

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. Trumpeter Swan sightings, Long-billed Curlew numbers, and Common Loon nesting data are collected yearly by watershed volunteers.

If you’d like to be a citizen scientist for the Blackfoot or volunteer to help schools with monitoring, please click here!