Porcupines are disappearing in Oregon. Libraries are loaning trail cameras out to locals who want to help save them

Oregon's Department of Fish and Wildlife launched a citizen-science porcupine monitoring study in summer 2025, with the High Desert Museum and libraries in Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson counties now lending trail cameras to volunteers. Since launch, over 140 reports have been generated through iNaturalist and trail camera data, enabling data-driven conservation of a species on Oregon's Species of Greatest Conservation Need list.