Wildlife Monitoring

One of the goals of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Act is to "improve fish and wildlife habitat, including for endangered, threatened, and sensitive species". The SWCC Wildlife Working Group has placed most of their effort on monitoring mid-sized carnivores some of which are listed under the Endangered Species Act or are proposed for listing. Because of the wide-ranging nature of forest carnivores, it is difficult to determine the effects that small-scale treatments may have on forest carnivores. However, forest carnivores could benefit from the efforts to effect landscape-scale changes, including restoring a natural balance of habitat conditions and disturbances, reducing roads, and restoring habitat for prey species.

Carnivore Monitoring Workshop Materials from April 2016 and December 2015 workshops (See Resources page)

NPR Story on Carnivore Monitoring project (May 2019).

Current Wildlife projects:

• Wildlife habitat suitability modeling - Project Summary

  • Reports:

    • Wildlife Modeling Application Report 2020

    • Wildlife Modeling Application Report 2016

    • SWCC Wildlife Modeling Report July 2012

• Forest carnivore monitoring - Project Summary

  • Reports:

    • 2013-2016 SWCC Meso-carnivore Monitoring Baseline Report

    • 2015 Carnivore Monitoring Progress Report

    • Presentation from 2015 Adaptive Management Workshop

    • 2012-2014 SWCC Carnivore Monitoring Progress Report