Saving the Birds at the Berkeley Pit

Business Insider, a financial and business news website, recently featured Montana Technological University alumnus Mark Mariano, now with Rampart Solutions, and Biological Sciences professor Dr. Stella Capoccia in their video series  World Wide Waste. The online segment reports on the Waterfowl Protection Plan at the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana. Titled “Meet the Man who Shoots at Birds all Day to Keep them Off a Toxic Pit,” has reached close to 7 million views and is on pace to be the most viewed video segment in the series. 

Mariano, who graduated from Montana Tech’s restoration ecology graduate program, and Dr. Capoccia, were featured in the segment along with Gary Swant and Caleb Lashway, from the GoBirdMontana, and several miners, engineers, and information technology specialists. “This project owes its unique development to a truly multi-disciplinary group of professionals,” noted Capoccia.