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deployed three sites during the 2013 Spring-Fall season in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest;
but future activities require greater planning for this new landscape. Because of delayed access
to the three site areas, cameras were deployed late in the season and therefore only monitored
for a few months. Additionally, for other reasons, Bumping Lake was installed late in the season
with the intention of allowing it to continue in its same location throughout the 2013-2014
Winter season.
Though we have experienced a low attrition rate for cameras in the past, two sites in the
Southern Cascades lost cameras – both in the Manastash are. Manastash 1 had a site camera
stolen while Manastash 2 potentially lost both cameras to wild fires in the region.
Table 7: South Cascades site information for 2013.
*denotes sites continued into the 2013-2014 Winter monitoring season
**denotes the unretrieved cameras from the site as a result of forest fires in the region
Neither wolves nor wolverines were detected at any of the South Cascades sites (Table 8).
Despite non-detections, CWMP will continue to monitor the Southern Recovery Zone and
respond to anecdotal reports as directed by agency biologists in 2014. Despite not recording
target species at each site, almost all sites documented deer and elk, which are primary prey for
wolves.
In addition to documenting multiple Level 2 and 3 species, Big Crow Basin documented
Cascades red fox. This species was also recorded in the 2012 monitoring season at American
Ridge, not far from Big Crow Basin. While not a target species of this project, other researchers
with the Cascades Carnivore Project are studying the populations of Cascades red fox in
Washington's Cascades. This research is looking at the historic and current species distribution
and the impact of reduced connectivity and habitat across the landscape. Detections of red fox
Site Name Target Species Date Installed Date Uninstalled Lure/Bait
Taneum Wolf 11-Jul-2013 N/A* Lure
Manastash 1 Wolf 20-Jun-2013 22-Sep-2013 Lure
Manastash 2 Wolf 13-Jun-2013 N/A** Lure
Raven's Roost Wolf 28-Jun-2013 5-Oct-2013 Lure
Bumping Lake Wolf 25-Aug-2013 N/A* Lure
Crow Lake Wolf 26-Jun-2013
13-Oct-2013 Lure
Lookout Mountain Wolverine 9-Sep-2013 25-Oct-2013 Both
Soda Springs Wolf 16-Aug-2013 16-Oct-2013 Lure
Spring Creek Wolf 3-Aug-2013 19-Oct-2013 Lure
Big Crow Basin Wolf 29-Jun-2013 5-Oct-2013 Lure
South Cascades Camera Sites
