  Most of the Milky Way's evolved massive stellar population is hidden from
view. We can attempt to remedy this situation with near-infrared observations,
and in this paper we present our method for detecting Wolf-Rayet stars in
highly extincted regions and apply it to the inner Galaxy. Using narrow band
filters at K-band wavelengths, we demonstrate how WR stars can be detected in
regions where they are optically obscured. Candidates are selected for
spectroscopic follow-up from our relative line and continuum photometry. The
final results of applying this method with a NIR survey in the Galactic plane
will provide a more complete knowledge of the structure of the galactic disk,
the role of metallicity in massive stellar evolution, and environments of
massive star formation. In this paper we briefly describe the survey set-up and
report on recent progress. We have discovered four emission-line objects in the
inner Galaxy: two with nebular emission lines, and two new WR stars, both of
late WC subtype.
