Category: Focus Areas
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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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On The Wing News – Winter 2024
Solutions from the Sky Expanding Wildlife Conservation Welcome to the first edition of On the Wing, LightHawk’s quarterly newsletter, highlighting our growing conservation work. In this issue, we look at LightHawk’s wildlife program, where our unique aviation capabilities are playing a vital role in preventing endangered species, like California condors, Bobwhite quail, black-footed ferrets, whooping…
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Taking Flight for Colorado’s Historic Wolf Reintroduction
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Colorado Wolf Transport FAQ
What is LightHawk’s role in the reintroduction of gray wolves in Colorado? LightHawk is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit conservation organization that accelerates conservation initiatives through aviation. LightHawk volunteer pilots donate their time, aircraft, and resources to transport gray wolves from an airport near their capture location to an airport in Colorado where Colorado Parks & Wildlife…
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A Wolf Story – Saving a Species Up Close
A first hand account of a LightHawk transport of endangered Mexican wolves.