Site
Camera #
Grindstone Mtn.
2
Chiwaukum
4
Months monitored
2012
JuneSeptember/October
June-present
Lure
Camera and Model
Gusto
Reconyx
RC55
Reconyx
RC55
Trailwatcher Cam
Bushnell
119477
Bushnell
119456
Bushnell
119456
Bootjack Mtn.
2
August-October
Gusto
Snow Lake
1
June-present
Gusto
Colockum
2
July-present
Gusto
Gusto
Table 4. Central Cascades 2012 Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project remote camera location descriptions.
Five remote camera sites were located in the Central Cascades subregion: four dedicated to the
detection of wolverines and one to the detection of wolves.
Remote camera sites located with a focus on detecting wolverine were located within the Alpine Lakes
Wilderness in two general locations: 1) just south of Highway 2, west of the town of Leavenworth and
2) north of Interstate 90. The camera sites south of Highway 2 included Bootjack Mountain in the Icicle
Valley, Chiwaukum mountains (where our winter monitoring had documented a new female wolverine,
Peg), and Grindstone mountain. Two of these sites, approximately 10 miles apart as a crow flies,
successfully recorded our target species during the season - Chiwaukum and Bootjack Mountain.
Images recorded from May through the end of our season built upon those recorded at the Chiwaukum
site in April, and provided high
quality views of the unique chest
blazes that aid in identification.
Advisory Councilmember, Cathy
Raley of the Pacific Northwest
Research Station, closely
analyzed images from the season
and concluded that "Peg" had
visited two of our camera
stations during the season (See
Figure 6) while three unique
individual wolverines had visited
one station in the Chiwaukum in
2012 (See Figure 7).
Figure 6: Comparison of photographs from two sites of "Peg"
making a visit. Credit: Cathy Raley, PNW Research Station
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