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2017 Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project Report_FINAL_WithoutAppendices

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25 Figure 7: All Canada lynx installations for 2017 spanned from the Rossland Range to the North in British Columbia to the Kettle Range in the United States. Table 10. Lynx survey area information for thirteen camera installations. Canada Lynx Camera Survey Areas 2017 Survey Area General Region # of Installations Installation Date Removal Date Total Trap Nights Lure Albian Hill CNF 3 2017/06/20 2017/10/22 182 None Coyote Mountain CNF 4 2017/06/11 2017/10/07 236 None Rossland Range BCRR 2 2016/10/23 2017/01/14 166 Lynx Sherman Pass CNF 4 2017/06/14 2017/09/14* 184 None * last revisit date/ no photos from removal date 10/14/2017 from two camera installations located in the Rossland Range in British Columbia, totaling 8.1 percent or our overall effort with 768 trap nights (Table 10, Figure 2). Our partners in BC have detected Canada lynx consistently each monitoring year since 2015 (Table 11). Our program compliments larger efforts of those researching the transboundary Canada lynx population. We look forward to receiving updates from our collaborators at Washington State University researching the Canada Lynx population in Washington state and the researchers at Selkirk College working on better understanding the lynx population within the B.C. Kettle and Rossland mountain ranges.

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