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CWMP Winter 2013-2014 Monitoring Report Final

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14 CWMP 2013-2014 Winter Field Season Report Observer Reliability Over the course of the winter, 18 observer reliability data points were collected from team leaders as per the protocol discussed above and thoroughly detailed in the past two seasonal reports. This was less than during the previous year, likely due to extremely poor snow conditions during most of the field season (detailed elsewhere in this report) and by one new team leader who submitted only data points listed as "ambiguous." As in previous years, coyotes were the most commonly reported species in the sample. Reviewers identified a single definitive mistake in identification made by observers in the field, the first since the project began testing observer reliability three

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