I am Mason Maron, a Junior majoring in Wildlife Ecology at WSU and am currently the Vice President of our chapter of the Wildlife Society. Outside of class, I spend most of my time in the field, birding and photographing the species around me.

I dedicate a lot of time and patience to my photography work, and many of my photos will be available to you for use in your reports for this class and on this site. It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly this passion for wildlife and photography started, but I picked it up around 2018 when I went on my first birding hike in October, and I’ve been doing it ever since then.

In fact, as I’m writing this, I’ve observed at least one bird every single day for over 750 days now. Though I’m not quite sure where my education and passions will lead me just yet, I am currently pursuing field jobs involving the monitoring and banding of birds all over the United States for research purposes. I have a lot of experience in wildlife identification, monitoring, data analysis, and so on, and will be here to help you understand the connections between flora, fauna, and the rest of the environment on Kamiak Butte.

I’m happy to help in any way, even if you just want to email me a bird you saw to ask what species it is!