UIdaho Wild

Forests around the world are changing fast, including in in the Northwest and Rocky Mountains, and posing new challenges for the wildlife that live there. Our project's goal is to understand how wildlife are responding to these sources of change, focused on the diverse large mammals that call the region home.

Sources of change include shifting climate, land-use change, human activities, and species' ranges. This same forested region also hosts one of the most diverse sets of large mammals on the continent, with carnivores ranging from brown and black bears to wolves, cougars, bobcats, lynx, and mustelids, and ungulates including elk, mule deer, white-tailed deer, bighorn sheep, and mountain goats

With your help, we will use camera images to track wildlife responses to the landscape, to their predators and competitors, and to human activity across this spectacular forested landscape. We are deploying a camera grid across multiple study areas, encompassing important gradients of landscape change, and targeted to detect multiple species of large mammals.

Project Caveats: The first year's data is a pilot data set, collected on the UI Experimental Forest near Moscow, Idaho. As a result, no detection distances were recorded, and sample size and spatial extent are limited.