Ohio University alum Kathryn Potraz ’13 is interning with the Sierra Club’s Green Life Blog and the Sierra Club magazine.
Potraz earned two degrees from Ohio University, a B.A. in English from the College of Arts & Sciences and a B.S.J. in Journalism.
Her recent story on “Largest Mule Deer Migration Ever Recorded” appeared in the May-June 2014 issue of the Sierra Club magazine.
In unprotected areas, getting the higher-ups to read and act on dry, statistics-filled wildlife reports can be difficult. Hall Sawyer, a research biologist studying mule deer in western Wyoming, is familiar with this problem.
“Management is different from a national park,” Sawyer said. “A lot of people use the analogy of a gap between scientists and decision-makers and managers like a canyon. Scientists throw their data into the bottom of the canyon and hope it gets picked up by management.” A recently released video and data report, illustrated by photographs from National Geographic photographer Joe Riis, are an effort to change that: “We’re hoping this data and video will bridge that gap.”
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