I was raised in a nature-centered home where my family’s main activities revolved around the outdoors. Growing up in Montana allowed me to have a deep appreciation for the nature around me that has turned me into a full on Outdoorsman and Naturalist. My spark animal was the eastern-collared lizard, which was (and still is) my favorite species of lizard that grew my curiosity into other herps, but this also opened the door for my interests to grow outside of herps.

Living in Montana allowed my passion for wildlife, specifically big game and apex predators, to develop with monthly trips into Yellowstone National Park where I grew a deep love for grizzly bears, wolves, moose, and elk. When I turned ten years old, I got my first camera where my attention turned to birds after discovering eBird a couple years earlier, and during the time I lived in Washington, I learned about birds and grew a strong interest in waterfowl, specifically dabbling ducks and geese. My biggest interests in nature developed in Oregon, where I would take every opportunity I could to go fishing. While I would go fishing on a consistent basis in Montana, I took it to the next level after never fishing when I lived in Washington, and it was because of fishing that sparked the idea for me to create an account on iNaturalist, and the rest is history.

My biggest interests since joining iNaturalist are fish, where I have specialized my knowledge into salmoniformes, herps, specifically gopher snakes, rattlesnakes, western US lizards, most amphibians in the US, and fire-bellied toads, as well as most big game mammals like deer, elk, moose, bears, wolves, and big cats like bobcats, cougars, and lynxes. I also have major interests in coyotes, foxes, wolverines, ground squirrels, rosy-finches, hawks, eagles, falcons, scrub-jays, dabbling ducks, geese, red-eyed tree frogs, bowfins, sturgeons, catfish, moths, jumping spiders, and conifers. These species are where I focus my efforts on providing my identification skills, and are some of the species where I try to concentrate my efforts on what I want to photograph the most. However, I do not restrict myself to only observing these species, as I want to document and have photographs of as many species as I can, with my current species count at 1,561, with my goal of hitting at least 3,000 species by 2030.

If there is an observation that you want me to take a look at to help with identifying it, or you think it’s an observation that I may find interesting, tag me in it and I’ll take a look at it! If you think I may have misidentified an observation, tag me in it as well and correct me or ask me why I went with the ID I did. While my knowledge and experience is deep, I do still make occasional mistakes. I’m also a firm believer that no matter how much experience a naturalist has, one can still make a mistake, so please correct if I do make one. If I don’t respond to a tag, I may have missed it, so if this is the case, please DM on the site. My DMs are also open to conversation about anything nature related, IDs and observations, and offers to meet up to do fishing, birding, a simple walk, or any other nature related activity, and as always, remember to have safe and enriching adventures when iNatting :)

My Custom Links:

• Identification Map:

• Collared Lizards, Phrynosomatid Lizards, & Whiptails

• Fire-bellied Toads:

• Gopher & Desert Tortoises

• Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem:

• My Following Identifications:

• North American Carnivores & Ruminants

• Northeastern Oregon

• Northwestern United States, Western Canada, and Alaska

• Rattlesnakes, Gopher Snakes, Copperheads, Hognose Snakes, & Kingsnakes:

• Rocky Mountain Conifers

• Salmonids:

• Western North American North American Toads, Pond Frogs, American Waterfrogs, and Chorus Frogs

Updated 1/22/2026

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