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.

Human-Carnivore Coexistence on Southern Vancouver Island

Human-Carnivore Coexistence on Southern Vancouver Island

Sooke

55 cameras have been deployed along an urban to wild gradient in order to calculate relative abundance along the gradient and to investigate potential correlation with human attractants and how many conflicts each area experiences. This...

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Human-Wildlife Use of Roads and Trails in Southwest Alberta

Human-Wildlife Use of Roads and Trails in Southwest Alberta

Southwest Alberta

43 camera traps were deployed on roads and trails in southwest Alberta to record the occurrence of eleven large mammal species, including humans and domestic cattle. Detections were used to investigate whether high human use of roads and...

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Human-Wolf Coexistence in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve

Human-Wolf Coexistence in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve

Pacific Rim National Park Reserve

125 cameras have been deployed in and around Pacific Rim National Park Reserve to quantify wolf activity in relation to human activity and prey availability. This project will demonstrate how wolves operate in a landscape shared with...

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Impacts of backcountry recreation on wildlife in Mount Robson Provincial Park

Impacts of backcountry recreation on wildlife in Mount Robson Provincial Park

Mount Robson Provincial Park

The Berg Lake Trail in Mount Robson Provincial Park attracts around 115,000 hikers each year, with 1000 hikers using the trail each day during peak season. Following flooding events in 2021, the trail was closed for repairs and is set to...

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Interior BC Moose Predation Risk Project

Interior BC Moose Predation Risk Project

Two study areas: 1) southwest of Prince George & 2) northwest of Kamloops

Two arrays of 50 wildlife cameras were deployed southwest of Prince George and northwest of Kamloops to identify the impacts of forest harvesting on distributions of moose and their predators. Predator distributions will be used to...

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Irgens Creek Species Census

Irgens Creek Species Census

Dusty Rd Fsr access to Dakota Ridge

The purpose of the Irgens Creek Project is to better understand the direct impact of industry activities on mammals and birds, black bear den characteristics and use development, together with how forest harvesting and road building,...

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Kootenay Remote Camera Monitoring Project

Kootenay Remote Camera Monitoring Project

Management Units 4-01, 4-02, 4-06, 4-07, 4-22, 4-23

The Kootenay Region has a great diversity of wildlife including seven ungulate species (mountain goat, bighorn sheep, moose, mule deer, white-tailed deer, caribou and elk) and seven large carnivores (black bear, grizzly bear, wolf, coyote,...

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Mammal Occupancy - Jasper National Park

Mammal Occupancy - Jasper National Park

Jasper National Park

A grid of over 100 cameras has been deployed since 2012 within Jasper National Park in coordination with the other mountain national parks to monitor mammal occupancy. A camera has been placed in almost all accessible accessible grid cells...

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Mammalian Movement in Riparian Corridors

Mammalian Movement in Riparian Corridors

Squamish, Maple Ridge

We are using camera traps to determine if stream and riparian habitat or terrestrial habitat are more effective at connecting larger habitat areas for mammals, and if this relationship changes along a developmental gradient and at varying...

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Mesocarnivore, Wolf, and Bear Population Viability and Connectivity in the Seton River Watershed

Mesocarnivore, Wolf, and Bear Population Viability and Connectivity in the Seton River Watershed

Seton River Watershed

This research is predominantly focused on wildlife, habitat and conservation; targeted species include primarily mesocarnivores (wolverine, lynx, etc.) as well as wolf, grizzly and black bears. We currently have 55 wildlife cameras...

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Monitoring Southwestern Alberta's Birds and Mammals

Monitoring Southwestern Alberta's Birds and Mammals

southwestern Alberta

This program is designed to collect data on mammal and bird species by using wildlife cameras and autonomous recording units (ARUs). The plan is to deploy these cameras and ARUs in two separate landscape areas within the Crownest Pass...

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