Jasper Ridge Backyard Camera Trapping

Project Aim 
To collaborate with Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve’s neighbouring land and home owners on a project to evaluate the role surrounding land-use types play in the provision of valuable habitat and corridors for viable wildlife populations to persist in Jasper Ridge and beyond.

Objectives 
1) To extend Jasper Ridge’s existing camera trap survey into the backyards of our neighbours and across the greater Stanford University lands.
2) To assist neighbours in putting a camera trap up in their backyard for a 3-year period and contribute the photos to the survey effort.
3) To evaluate the spatial and temporal variation in the presence and behavioural ecology of wildlife across the various rural and urban environments surrounding and within Jasper Ridge.
4) To establish the population dynamics of wildlife in the greater ecosystem and the role of the environments in the persistence of wildlife in and around Jasper Ridge.

Project Caveats: Project participants are all voluntary, and the camera traps they use and setup is at their own devices, based on advice given through eMammal.