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Table 6. Information for all I-90 survey areas, including duration of monitoring and number of installations.
^
Denotes the first
date photos were received from survey areas left active over the winter. *Denotes the last date photos were checked, but
survey area was not uninstalled.
I-90 Wildlife Corridor Camera Survey Areas 2017
Survey Area General Region
# of
Installations
Installation
Date Removal Date
Total Trap
Nights Lure
Alaska Lake MBSNF 1 2017/01/20^ 2017/05/25 125 None
Easton OWNF 3 2017/01/07^ 2017/09/06* 823 None
Gold Creek OWNF 5 2017/06/04 2017/10/2 240 Gusto
Price Creek OWNF 2 2017/06/04 2017/11/21 340 None
Crystal Springs OWNF 1 2016/09/25^ 2017/01/13 110 None
Over the course of the season, mountain lions, a level two species, were detected at both Gold Creek and Price
Creek. Seven level three species, including black bear, bobcat, coyote, elk, mule deer, snowshoe hare and smaller
mammals, and human (non-volunteer) were detected. All species were seen at Easton except the detection of a
mountain lion (Table 7).
Table 7. Number of detection events by species at I-90 survey areas.
Species Detection Events at I-90 Camera Survey Areas 2017
Species Priority Level 2 Level 3
Survey Area
Mountain
Lion
Bobcat Black Bear Coyote Elk Mule Deer
Snowshoe
Hare and
smaller
mammals
Human (non-
volunteer)
Alaska Lake
5 51 3
Crystal Springs
3 1 1 1
Easton
6 2 9 17 17 15 13
Gold Creek
2 11 2 3 8 1
Price Creek
1 1 79 47 4
WOLVERINE
Our wolverine survey areas this season spanned throughout Washington's North and South Cascades, both east
and west of the Cascade Crest (Figure 6).
