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Lynx
Wolf
Grizzly bear
Level 2
Cougar
Marten
Mountain goat
Mountain red fox/Cascades red fox
Level 3
Black bear
Bobcat
Coyote
Elk
Mule deer
Raccoon
Snowshoe hare and smaller mammals
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Our 2013 Spring-Fall field season began in May and ran through October. Over the season, 20
camera sites were monitored in the Cascades with an additional camera site monitored just over
the Washington border in British Columbia. The following results include only species of
interest to this program as identified by our Advisory Council and project staff. Only species
falling within our three priority levels are included, thus excluding photographs of birds, hares,
small rodents, and domestic dogs and cats. Due to increasing interest in the interaction of
wolves and livestock in Washington, we include domestic livestock captured at our sites in our
analyses as a Level 3 species.
Though our program expands knowledge of wildlife presence in Washington, limitations to the
breadth of our data do exist. Our data cannot ascertain species diversity, population size, or
species absence. Rather, our data focuses on species richness, which has invaluable application
to the conservation and management of rare and sensitive species in Washington. Species
richness is defined as the number of different species present within a defined area. For the
purposes of our project, we assess species richness by site, which we can then extrapolate out
onto our larger defined study areas. In addition to assessing species richness, we also assess the
number of identified priority-level species per site. Thus the more species recorded from each
level (with a particular emphasis on Level 1 species), the greater the importance to the goals of
our project.
