Meet flying biologist Heather Wilson, whose unique skills have put her at the frontlines of our changing climate and whose surveys inform wildlife regulations and conservation decisions.
I don’t fully understand the question until the horizon tilts to 45 degrees, and the plane cabin hops over the wake of our jet stream. I’m in the jump seat of Heather Wilson’s Cessna 206, and until today, the smallest plane I’d been in was the commercial 40-seat Ravn Air flight that brought me here to Alaska’s Cold Bay.
“I think of the Cessna 206 as a Swiss army knife. It can do so many things well...and that makes it a very useful plane for aerial survey work,” says Wilson. “The biologist pilot sect is a really special group. It’s a labor of love,” Wilson says. “The more you fly in windy places and among the birds, the more it becomes a part of you, the way I think it’s a part of them.”
Wilson has been a part of the USFWS Migratory Bird Management program since 2007. One of a small group of people who have done this survey since its inception in the 1980s, she has flown more than 4,000 hours, and endless miles, over the wildest reaches of the American north. Counting the birds is extremely difficult, and necessitates the honing of an unusual skill.
“I identify with air,” she says. “I enjoy every environment, but I feel the best in open, high places, especially the air, and flying. It just seems natural to study animals who are the same way.”
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