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.

Monitoring Vertebrate Biodiversity Through Use of Camera Traps

Monitoring Vertebrate Biodiversity Through Use of Camera Traps

University of British Columbia (UBC) Farm

Remote camera traps have been deployed in both forested and production areas at UBC Farm to provide data on the vertebrates present. So far 19 cameras have been successfully deployed. Vertebrate biodiversity will be monitored, as well as...

Oak Bay Urban Deer Project

Oak Bay Urban Deer Project

Oak Bay

The Urban Deer Project uses a combination of camera traps and satellite telemetry to better understand the urban black-tailed deer of Oak Bay for the purposes of informing management. 39 cameras have been deployed throughout the...

Of Mice and Moose: Impacts of Forest Harvest Practices on Mammal Communities

Of Mice and Moose: Impacts of Forest Harvest Practices on Mammal Communities

Alex Fraser and John Prince Research Forests, Caven Creek Cutblocks

This project focuses on the wildlife that use and frequent a gradient of forest harvesting methods in the Interior of BC. The experimental design involves three replicates of five forest harvesting treatments at three sites: Jaffray...

Recreational Impacts on the Wildlife of the South Chilcotins

Recreational Impacts on the Wildlife of the South Chilcotins

South Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park

64 wildlife cameras have been deployed with the South Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park and adjacent Mining and Tourism Areas (MTAs) to investigate the effects of multiple types of recreation's impacts on the wildlife living within the...

Richardson Wildfire Project

Richardson Wildfire Project

North-eastern Alberta

58 cameras were deployed in the Richardson backcountry area of northeastern Alberta to measure ungulate (moose, white-tailed deer, and woodland caribou) responses to wildlife, seismic lines, and other anthropogenic activity. Specifically,...

Sechelt Peninsula - Mammal Camera Study

Sechelt Peninsula - Mammal Camera Study

Sechelt Peninsula

Conservation and management of Roosevelt Elk (Cervus canadensis roosevelti) requires accurate and precise population estimates. Current regional inventory methods involve aerial inventory surveys with corrections for sightability based on...

Southern Interior Mule Deer Project

Southern Interior Mule Deer Project

British Columbia southern interior

The Southern Interior Mule Deer Project operates 250 cameras across 3 study regions from 100 Mile House in the north west to Grand Forks in the south east. The goal of the project is to determine how factors like wildfires, logging,...

Southern Interior Mule Deer Project

Southern Interior Mule Deer Project

Southern Interior

With an aim to learn how to best restore mule deer populations in the southern interior, 160 cameras have been deployed in conjunction with the collaring of 150 mule deer does and fawns to gain insight into how landscape change and the...

Supplemental Feeding of Kennedy Siding Caribou Project

Supplemental Feeding of Kennedy Siding Caribou Project

Kennedy Siding caribou herd range; central British Columbia Canada

Doug uses camera traps at feeding stations (currently in year 6) to census caribou in the Kennedy Siding Herd in central British Columbia. Photographs allow him to identify each caribou by their unique antler morphology. The process needs...

Sustaining Mesocarnivore Populations and Habitat in Lower Mainland Watersheds

Sustaining Mesocarnivore Populations and Habitat in Lower Mainland Watersheds

Golden Ears Provincial Park and the Stave Watershed

This project will use non-invasive survey techniques to evaluate the distribution, habitat use, and human-caused threats of mesocarnivore populations in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. This information is necessary to help trappers...

The Algar Wildlife Monitoring Project

The Algar Wildlife Monitoring Project

Algar Region, northeastern Alberta

The Algar Seismic Restoration Pilot Project was an industry-led initiative between 2012 and 2015 that aimed to restore seismic lines in caribou habitat within the Algar herd range (East Side Athabasca River population, northeastern...