Figure 2. Map of the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East project area with red circles indicating the Gold Creek and Rocky
Run wildlife underpass locations, where our 2012 monitoring efforts were focused.
Five of our total twenty-four remote camera site locations were dedicated to monitoring wildlife
presence in the I-90 corridor.
III.
Methodology
The field program is run entirely by volunteers supported by staff from Conservation Northwest and
partner organizations. Remote cameras are a core part of our project. Deployment of remote cameras
by our citizen volunteers provide a tangible, low-cost way to engage people in the outdoors and to
educate them in wildlife monitoring efforts without the need of extensive biological survey training. This
network of cameras and volunteers provide verifiable photographic evidence invaluable in the detection
of elusive, rare, and sensitive species such as gray wolves, lynx, grizzly bear, and wolverines. Once
detected, state and federal agency biologists, and conservation NGO's can then implement further
concentrated scientific studies in the area of interest as well as enact and implement appropriate
management direction.
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