Posts by Northwest Swan Conservation Association

During one of our regular swan surveys south of Monroe WA, Martha Jordan discovered several dead and sick swans at Crescent Lake in mid-March. Over the next 14 days NWSCA in cooperation with WDFW led an effort to retrieve the sick and dead swans and tally the feather piles of swans that died and were eaten…

After studying the causes of Trumpeter Swan nesting failures in Yellowstone National Park in the 1970s, Ruth dedicated her career to the conservation of Rocky Mountain Trumpeter Swans.  Ruth earned her MS in Wildlife Biology from the University of Montana in 1979, worked as a biologist for a several federal and state  agencies (U.S. National…