Category: Content: Featured Missions
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Bringing Bobwhite Quail Back to Pennsylvania
In March, several masked bobwhite quail took an important step toward returning to the wild, traveling flight from Florida to Pennsylvania for release. LightHawl Volunteer pilot Benjamin Cohen, joined by his son Casey, transported the birds in his Beechcraft Bonanza, where Pennsylvania Game Commission officials met them for the final journey to their release site.…
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Flying for the Santa Cruz, One of America’s Most Endangered Rivers
The Santa Cruz River cuts through southern Arizona’s desert landscape, where restoration efforts have brought wildlife back even as water scarcity continues to threaten its future. Photo by Julius Schlosburg. LightHawk conservation partner American Rivers recently released their list of the most endangered rivers in the United States. The Santa Cruz River in Arizona was…
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Tracing the Causes of Algal Blooms in Florida Bay
Researchers survey Florida Bay from above, gaining a landscape-scale view of the waterways, mangroves and coastal systems that may be contributing to persistent algal blooms. Photo by Jay Apt/LightHawk. Earlier this year, Florida International University researchers partnered with LightHawk to gain a broader view of Florida Bay and better understand the changes reshaping the ecosystem.…
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Documenting a Historic Return to a Free-Flowing Klamath River
LightHawk is helping document a historic moment for free-flowing rivers and salmon recovery in the Pacific Northwest. For more than a century, four dams along the Klamath River in southern Oregon and northern California degraded water quality and blocked salmon, steelhead, and Pacific lamprey from reaching more than 400 miles of spawning and rearing habitat.…
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Taking Flight for Colorado’s Historic Wolf Reintroduction