Salix Scoresby is a wildlife ecologist who has been lucky enough to work with some of the most elusive mammals in the West. A middle-school drop out from Kentucky, they pursued an unconventional education comprised of traveling, time in the wilderness, and self-study, and began to dive into wildlife science more intensively in their late twenties. They have spent time dangling hundreds of feet up in the old-growth canopy of the Oregon Coast Range while surveying for tiny red tree voles, scouring the precipices of Glacier National Park for mountain goat scat, bushwhacking through the Klamath Mountains after Humboldt martens, and traversing the North Cascades setting cameras for wolverine. They recently completed their M.S. using DNA metabarcoding to understand the full-taxa diet of the Sierra Nevada red fox in the Oregon Cascades.

Salix is currently the Land Steward at Vesper Meadow Restoration and Education Program, an interpretive ranger for the Friends of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, and recently got elected Secretary of the Oregon Chapter of The Wildlife Society. They are excited to learn about the outrageous biodiversity of the Cascade-Siskiyou-Klamath ecosystem and spend some time doing hands-on restoration work and monitoring.

Salix is a white settler from the Jewish diaspora, a non-binary trans person, and deeply committed to and excited about doing their best to engage in collaborative anti-colonial science.