Home Range: Research, Resilience, and the Future of Wildlife

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Join us for a conversation with Carmen Vanbianchi, Research Director and Co-founder of Home Range Wildlife Research, based in Winthrop, Washington, in the Methow Valley. Home Range’s mission is “to advance wildlife conservation by conducting high-quality research, educating aspiring biologists, and engaging local communities.” Carmen is a field biologist dedicated to the study of lynx and other carnivores, living a life as a tracker, skier, deep observer, and a student of winter weather and tough terrain. Part of her personal mission is to make sure that more people like herself, who love wildlife and wild places, can find their way to careers as field biologists and researchers and help provide the understanding to make sure it all goes on into a challenging and uncertain future.

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0:00.0	I love snow tracking. That's true. It's really, really fun because it's so plainly laid out. It's like somebody who's turned on the lights in the woods almost and you're just seeing everything that's happening. It's always startling at first in the the in the winter when I go out it's like good god there's just animals everywhere it feels like yeah um you know back in 2015 2016
0:30.0	i can remember going out and doing surveys on snowmobiles and not seeing any lynx tracks hardly any snowshoe. And then all of a sudden, I was going out there and started to see links tracks every once in a while and more snow shoe hairs.
0:44.3	And then every year since then, we just started to see more and more links tracks.
0:48.3	And so it's like it hit this critical moment, this threshold, where suddenly this burn is regenerating enough that it's
0:56.6	again supporting links.
1:00.0	And that sort of long-term observation and noticing and sort of filing away of the things that
1:07.9	you see just on a day-to-day when you're out there is really what led to
1:12.9	the current Lings and Wildfire Project that we're working on.
1:16.9	Hey, everybody, it's Hal Herring, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Podcast and Blast. Thanks for being
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