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able to keep track of where images have come from. To avoid glare and to ensure that what you
have written is clear, please stand approximately five feet in front of the camera and use gray
paper and a thick, black marker to fill in the information.
Data Sheet: Make sure your GPS unit is set to report coordinates in decimal degrees and
record the GPS coordinates (use Datum WGS 84, lat/long coordinates in decimal degrees) on
your data sheet if this is a camera installation/move or if they were not recorded previously.
Carefully fill out all of the other information requested on the data sheet. Include relevant notes
about the location and details about access for people who will be servicing the camera trap. A
few photographs of the area and the approach might be useful for this as well.
Defining and labeling discreet camera trap installations: Each time a camera is moved to
a new location (more than 100m away from original location) this is considered a new
installation. A slight adjustment to a camera, where the camera is still monitoring the exact
same immediate location, just from a slightly different angle (which might be done in an attempt
to reduce false triggers due to lighting or waiving branches) counts as the same installation.
Carefully record the specific name of each individual installation on the data sheet. Use the
labeling convention outlined below for creating a discreet label for each new location you set up
a camera trap.
This name needs to be the same for every visit to the camera installation. Use the
convention outlined below for creating labels for each installation. Be sure to enter it the same
on all visits to the camera installation. See the spreadsheet with previous camera visits to
double check the title of the installation if you have any questions.
General location-year
installed-installation
number
Example: Rainier-2016-1
General location
This title is provided to you by Conservation Northwest when you
are issued your camera trap equipment. Use this title for all of the
installations you create in that area.
Year
Record the year you INSTALL the camera (in the case of
cameras that are out over the transition from one year to the
