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From wildlife transports to watershed restoration campaigns, these are the missions where the aerial perspective is changing what is possible on the ground.
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Inside This Month’s Featured Mission
Each month, we take a closer look at one LightHawk mission and what aviation made possible for conservation.
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Twelve Glaciers. Two and a Half Hours.
Colorado’s glaciers and perennial snowfields are shrinking. Documenting those changes means reaching remote mountain sites and gathering photographs from many angles, work that once required long hikes across difficult terrain. LightHawk and Colorado State University researchers are using flight to…
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Stories, updates, and news from across LightHawk
From wildlife transports to watershed restoration campaigns, these are the missions where aerial perspective is changing what’s possible on the ground. Read the latest LightHawk stories and news, or search by topic.
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Pilot View
Pilot’s View: Above Colorado’s Changing Glaciers
Following a year of record-low snowfall, Colorado State University researchers are documenting how the state’s glaciers are changing. To capture the images they need,…
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Featured Mission
Twelve Glaciers. Two and a Half Hours.
Colorado’s glaciers and perennial snowfields are shrinking. Documenting those changes means reaching remote mountain sites and gathering photographs from many angles, work that once…
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Featured Mission
From 1,300 Miles on Foot to One Powerful View from Above
Starting high in the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado River winds south through some of the most dramatic and heavily used landscapes in the American…
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Focus: Waterways
Pilot View: Flying Montana’s Bitterroot Valley
“Ray Lee is a true professional.” That’s how Northern Rockies Program Manager Chris Boyer described Lee after a recent LightHawk mission through Montana’s Bitterroot Valley.…
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Focus: Waterways
Pilot View: Capturing Aerial Perspective on the Colorado River
The Colorado River Basin is an area of intense interest this year. Record low snowfall has left the river system with very little water,…
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Featured Mission
Protecting Maine’s Landscapes and Waterways
There’s a narrow stretch of water in central Maine called the Serpentine that connects East and North Ponds. From the ground, it looks like…
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