Projects

Wildlife-Park Visitor Interaction in South BC Coast Parks

Compiled here is a list of current and past projects with wildlife cameras in western Canada undertaken by our membership. You can click on any of the projects to learn more about them, or explore the map. You can also access our searchable database here,  where you can sort or search for projects by target species, affiliation, region, etc.

Caribou Conservation through Better Cutblock Design

Caribou Conservation through Better Cutblock Design

West-central Alberta

Declines of woodland caribou are linked to human-caused landscape changes that convert mature forests to early seral stands. Early seral stands provide abundant forage that support high populations of primary prey (e.g., deer, moose, and...

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Cathedral Provincial Park Mammal Monitoring

Cathedral Provincial Park Mammal Monitoring

Cathedral Provincial Park

A grid of roughly 50 cameras is being deployed within Cathedral Provincial Park in the Okanagan-Similkameen to produce a species inventory, investigate recreation impacts on wildlife, and provide information on a population of mountain...

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Collaborative Wildlife Monitoring in NW Alberta Caribou Ranges

Collaborative Wildlife Monitoring in NW Alberta Caribou Ranges

Chinchaga and Caribou Mountains

The goal of this project is to estimate ungulate, predator, and bird density in two NW Alberta caribou ranges: Chinchaga and Caribou Mountains. Ungulate and predator densities will be estimated by deploying three grids of 25 cameras across...

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Ecosystem Monitoring Camera Program

Ecosystem Monitoring Camera Program

Cold Lake, East Side Athabasca, West Side Athabasca, Saskatchewan

The Ecosystem Monitoring Camera Program’s goals are two-fold. The first goal will be to monitor multi-species responses to caribou management actions over time using a remote camera program. The program specifically monitors changes in...

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Elk Valley Grizzly Bear Project

Elk Valley Grizzly Bear Project

The Elk Valley

20 wildlife cameras have been deployed and are being used in conjunction with hair snags and GPS collars to investigate rates and mechanisms of grizzly bear mortality and reproduction across a human-influence gradient.

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Fernie Recreation Monitoring

Fernie Recreation Monitoring

WMU 4-23

20 cameras monitoring recreation effects of motorized and non-motorized recreation near Fernie. Paired cameras on adjacent wildlife trails.

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Fisher Artificial Reproductive Den Box Project

Fisher Artificial Reproductive Den Box Project

Cariboo-Chilcotin

55 artificial den boxes were designed, constructed, installed, and monitored for fisher use in the Central Interior of BC. Monitoring included hair-snagging and video monitoring. Fishers used a small proportion of the structures for...

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Fuel Management and Wildfire Impacts on Vegetation, Wildlife and Water Quality Given Climate Change

Fuel Management and Wildfire Impacts on Vegetation, Wildlife and Water Quality Given Climate Change

West Kootenays

Wildlife cameras have been deployed throughout two regions burned by wildfire, one in 2018 and one in 2021, with cameras within unburned control sites, and burned sites at various burn severities. Many cameras are also up in two unburned...

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Golden Ears/Malcolm Knapp Research Forest Integrated Monitoring

Golden Ears/Malcolm Knapp Research Forest Integrated Monitoring

Golden Ears Provincial Park and Malcolm Knapp Research Forest

A grid of 54 cameras has been deployed within Golden Ears Provincial Park and the adjacent Malcolm Knapp Research Forest within the Metro Vancouver Regional District to produce an inventory of current species residing in the area, as well...

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Grizzly Bear Habitat Selection for Buffalo Berry as a Food Resource

Grizzly Bear Habitat Selection for Buffalo Berry as a Food Resource

East Kootenay

18 cameras have been deployed on 9 permanent buffalo berry plots. These buffalo berry plots are used to better identify the trends in health and population dynamics of grizzly bears, by monitoring annual buffalo berry fruit production. At...

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Grizzly Bear Habitat Use, Bella Coola Valley / Nuxalk Territory

Grizzly Bear Habitat Use, Bella Coola Valley / Nuxalk Territory

Bella Coola Valley / Nuxalk Territory

The Bella Coola Valley / Nuxalk Territory was recently provided with an independently conducted Bear Hazard Assessment (BHA) and new Human Bear Conflict Management Plan (HBCMP) following decades of continued human-bear conflict incidence...

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