Bighorn Backcountry Project

Bighorn Backcountry Project

The Bighorn Project seeks to understand how anthropogenic footprint and human activity affects mammal communities in this amazing wilderness in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains. This multi-use landscape houses a nearly intact large mammal community and is also home to important resource extraction and a key recreation area for areas of Edmonton and Calgary. Conserving its mammal biodiversity require informed management decisions. 94 cameras traps deployed over 6000 km2 in Fall 2020 continue to sample mammal occurrences across a gradient of development and natural variability, while an additional 60 camera traps deployed on roads and trails monitor human activity.