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in maintaining a site if target species are present. Work with other research projects looking at additional
monitoring methods for wolverine.
3. Reach out to colleges and universities to engage upcoming wildlife professionals in Washington wildlife
monitoring and look for other opportunities to partner with ongoing efforts.
4. Develop a new strategy to obtain volunteers and coordination capacity in northeastern Washington in
order to continue and improve our Canada lynx monitoring efforts in the Kettle River Range.
5. Increase coordination in planning, reporting, and processing results from efforts by CWMP, Washington
State University, and Selkirk College researchers monitoring Canada lynx in northeast Washington and
southeastern British Columbia.
6. Ensure early coordination with other monitoring efforts throughout our coverage area, including
professional and citizen-based research.
7. Evaluate our new data management system to facilitate data exchange between volunteers and project
staff. Look for new methods of data collection that may ease data management for volunteers and project
staff.
8. Provide expanded opportunities for connections between volunteers, other ongoing wildlife field research
in our state, and field skill trainings.
9. Maintain clear communication with all team leaders in order to ensure that data is collected and
submitted in an accurate and efficient manner. Ensure that all protocol materials are easily accessible and
well-understood at the beginning of the season, particularly during the spring training.
10. Refine the training system for volunteers and develop new incentives for teams to submit data in a timely
manner.
11. Continue inputting current and past year's data from the project into the new online relational database.
Provide a simplified process for reporting project results and more detailed and refined analysis of project
findings, and facilitate sharing with project partners.
12. Improve genetic sample collection techniques by recognizing key areas for potential sample collection and
having a backup team that can visit specific sites if needed.
13. Advise volunteers to visit the site more frequently and retrieve the samples as soon as they can to ensure
a high quality sample is collected to improve efficacy of analysis.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We appreciate supportive grants from WDFW ALEA Cooperative Grants Program, Norcliffe Foundation, Deacon
Charitable Foundation, Lucky Seven Foundation, and an anonymous foundation that supported CWMP in
2017. This project would not be possible without your generous support.
We are also very grateful for the following individuals who adopted teams for the 2017 season: Barbara Hawkins
and Jeff Daffron. We appreciate your support!
We would like to thank the individual advisory council members, specific survey area advisers, and project
collaborators for the talent, time, and guidance they provided:
(Cascades Carnivore Project) Jocelyn Akins;
