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letters on it: Camera installation name, date, team leader name, latitude, longitude, altitude. All
of this information will help us ensure that we are able to keep track of where images have come
from.
Data Sheet: Record the GPS coordinates (use Datum WGS 84, lat/long coordinates) on your
data sheet only if this is a camera install/move or they were not previously recorded. Carefully
fill out all of the other information requested on the data sheet. Include relevant notes on the
location and accessing it for people who will be servicing the camera trap. A few photographs of
the area and the approach might be useful for this as well.
Defining and labeling discreet camera trap installations: Each time a camera is moved to a
new location this is considered a new installation. (An exception to this would be a slight
adjustment to a camera where the camera is still monitoring the exact same immediate location,
just from a slightly different angle, which might be done in an attempt to reduce false triggers
due to lighting or waiving branches.) On the data sheet carefully record the specific name of
each individual installation. Use the labeling convention outlined below for creating a discreet
label for each new location you set up a camera trap.
This name needs to be the same for every visit to the camera installation. Use the convention
outlined below for creating labels for each installation. Be sure to enter it the same on all visits to
the camera installation. See the spreadsheet of previous camera visits to double check the title
of the installation if you have any questions.
General location-
year-installation
number
Example: Rainier-2015-1
General location This title is provided to you by Conservation
Northwest when you are issues your camera trap
equipment. Use this title for all of the installations you
create in that area.
Year Record the year you INSTALL the camera (in the
case of cameras that are out over the transition from
one year to the next, the title comes from the year
when the installation was created).
Installation Number Label each installation chronologically starting with 1.
If you have two cameras, the first trap you install will
be 1, the second 2. If you move camera 1 to a new
location after a month, this will become camera 3 and
if you move the other camera it would become 4 and
