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Photographs of potential tracks and signs
During scouting, installation and removal of remote camera traps document any tracks
and signs that appear to have been left by grizzly bears. Follow the guidelines laid out in
the Remote Camera Trap Installation and Servicing Protocol for this. Appendix 2 of this
document provides basic guidelines for track identification and others signs to look for
in the field.
Relocation of camera trap
Each camera team will be assigned two locations to monitor over the course of the
summer. After deconstructing the first traps, the team will travel to a second location
and redeploy their camera traps in the second target location, following all the same
guidelines for the initial installation of the season.
Acknowledgements
Thanks very much to Bill Gaines, Robert Long for discussing the details of their project
and helping adapt our methods to support this work and to Aja Woodrow for helping us
refine our adapted field methods and outfitting us with scent lures. The description of
genetic sample collections was adapted from field methods text written for the North
Cascades Wolverine Project.
References
Kendall, K.C., and K.S. McKelvey. 2008. Hair collection. Pages 141–182 in Long, R. A., P.
MacKay, W. J. Zielinski, and J. C. Ray, editors. Noninvasive survey methods for carnivores.
Island Press, Washington, D.C.
Long, R.A., J.S. Begley, P. MacKay, W.L. Gaines, and A.J. Shirk. 2013. The Cascades
Carnivore Connectivity Project: A landscape genetic assessment of connectivity for
carnivores in Washington's North Cascades Ecosystem. Final report for the Seattle City
Light Wildlife Research Program, Seattle, Washington. Western Transportation Institute,
Montana State University, Bozeman. 57 pp.
Moskowitz, D. 2010. Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. Timber Press, Portland Oregon.
