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2017 Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project Report_FINAL_WithAppendices

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13 Figure 1: Locations of all 2017 camera installations specified by target species: Canada lynx, grizzly bear, I-90 wildlife corridor, wolf, and wolverine. Throughout the season, the field knowledge and experience of our volunteers help the CWMP staff and Advisory Council reassess each survey area based on data gathered during the season. Because of their consistent presence in core habitat, volunteers provide invaluable feedback about the best survey area locations, current field conditions, and habitat. Over the course of the 2017 field season, our volunteers placed 72 unique camera installations at 30 survey areas throughout our study area in the Cascade Mountains and in the Kettle River Mountain Range. Each survey area had between one and eight discreet camera trap installations spread out spatially and/or temporally throughout the survey area. Based on guidance from our Advisory Council we had eight survey areas for wolves, eleven targeting wolverine, two for grizzly bear, five targeting multiple species along I-90, and four survey areas focused on detecting lynx.

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