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Conservancy land through special permissions from The Nature Conservancy. All survey areas were located within
the South Cascades, defined as the area south of I-90, both on the west and east side of the Cascade Crest. Some
installations were left active over the winter season. Two new survey areas, Bumping Lake and Naches River, were
established in January 2016 for wolf detection, and Little Naches was established at the end of July in response to
potential sightings.
Table 3. All wolf survey area information. ~Cameras active prior to this date, data picks up here from where 2015 left off,
*denotes last date photos were checked, but survey area was not uninstalled.
Wolf Camera Survey Areas 2016
Survey Area
General
Region # of Installations Installation Date Removal Date
Total Trap
Nights Lure
Blue Lake Ridge GPNF 5 2015/11/23~ 2016/12/05* 641 days Gusto
Bumping Lake OWNF 9 2015/12/20 2016/11/05 572 days Gusto
Cispus GPNF 5 2016/02/28 2016/11/20* 433 days Gusto
Cliffdell OWNF 2 2016/06/05 2016/10/23 203 days Gusto
Little Naches OWNF 2 2016/07/30 2016/11/05 196 days Gusto
Lone Butte GPNF 4 2016/06/03 2016/10/29 276 days Gusto
Manastash OWNF 2 2016/05/28 2016/12/04* 380 days Gusto
Naches River OWNF 4 2015/12/20 2016/04/09 222 days Gusto
Rimrock OWNF 5 2016/06/04 2016/09/17 259 days Gusto
Taneum OWNF 3 2016/04/15 2016/10/29 388 days Gusto
While no wolves were detected in this region, a fisher from recent reintroduction efforts and two level two
species were observed; mountain lion and marten (Table 4). Mountain lion were seen at five of the ten survey
areas and marten was observed at Bumping Lake. Eleven level three species, including black bear, bobcat, coyote,
elk, mule deer, both striped and spotted skunks, porcupine, raccoon, snowshoe hare and smaller mammals, and
livestock and human (non-volunteer) (Table 4), were detected during the season. Of these species, ten were
detected at Blue Lake Ridge and Manastash, nine were observed at Bumping Lake and Taneum, and eight at
Cliffdell. At the Cispus survey site one Virginia Opossum was detected and it is noted that this survey area is in
close proximity to rural human development. While this species is not one of our priority species, the presence of
a non-native species has been noted.
