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Trail cams in the news
« on: December 04, 2008, 11:18:05 AM »
Caught on camera: rare and elusive animals
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SEATTLE (AP) - A lynx sighting is rare in Washington, and rarer still are any of resident gray wolves, once thought to have disappeared from the state in the 1930s.

But citizen wildlife monitors have snapped rare photographs of these and other elusive animals using remote cameras placed in forests and valleys throughout the Cascade Range, adding to the knowledge of little-seen and threatened wildlife.

"There was a great diversity of species recorded on our cameras," said Marlo Mytty, a coordinator with the Cascades Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project. "You don't realize or think about all the wildlife that's out there that you're not seeing."

Volunteers monitored wildlife using 43 tree-mounted cameras that were triggered by motion sensors and captured thousands of photographs of wildlife this year.

The report released Wednesday documents more than 16 mammal species, including bobcat, elk, black bear, cougar, porcupine and marten, a rare member of the weasel family.

But the biggest stars, by far, were gray wolves.

Cameras in Okanogan County's Methow Valley caught the first image of an adult wolf in May, and later six pups in July. A pup rolls on the ground in one shot, while an adult wolf carries off a leg bone with hooves in another.

The project also produced rare glimpses of a Cascades red fox in Kittitas County's Teanaway area and the long-legged lynx in the Pasayten Wilderness. Lynx, the rarest of the cat species in Washington, were once widespread but now number only a few dozen.

More than 50 volunteers worked on the project. They mounted cameras on trees close to trails and forest paths where certain wildlife were most likely to be found. They set out lures, monitored cameras and sorted through thousands of digital images and some video clips.

"It was really amazing to see an engagement of volunteers," Mytty said. "People got excited about wildlife in the Cascades."

Confirming the presence of wildlife also helps inform land management decisions and wildlife recovery, she said.

Along Interstate 90 near Snoqualmie Pass, seven project cameras have helped transportation planners and others get a better picture of the wildlife that inhabits the area.

A $1 billion project to rebuild parts of I-90 near Snoqualmie Pass will include wildlife bridges and underpasses to lure animals away from the road when construction starts next year.

"The case for the proposed over- and underpass was made clear by the photographs of elk and deer that we kept getting," said Jen Watkins, project director of the I-90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition and for Conservation Northwest, which has been operating cameras in the state for years.

The Wilderness Awareness School was also involved in the project.

Watkins said the project engages and educates citizens in wildlife science while documenting rare and sensitive wildlife in the Cascades.
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Re: Trail cams in the news
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2008, 11:44:35 AM »
"marten, a rare member of the weasel family" 

Morons, they are not that rare. 
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Re: Trail cams in the news
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2008, 11:48:49 AM »
Wouldnt it be nice to give them a nice cam shot of a BA!! :chuckle:
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Re: Trail cams in the news
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2008, 12:04:06 PM »
LIKE THIS? sorry, I just had to.

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Re: Trail cams in the news
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2008, 04:56:14 PM »
[quote ] while an adult wolf carries off a leg bone with hooves in another.
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Real nice  >:( >:( They are soooo cute :mgun: :mgun: :mgun:

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Re: Trail cams in the news
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2008, 09:58:21 PM »
so i take it that people here dont like wolves?? would u take a machine gun to native steelies or salmon??? or even more of you fisherman take away the limit on smallmouth, largemouth, and walleye which arent even native to here like wolves. hmmm let me think......... pretty sure man is top predator???????    i am all for wolves being brought back to their native wildlife as i am sure we as humans will cope with it like nature has.   too bad for the ranchers since they brought this on in the first place when they killed all the wolves.      BOOOO hoooo for them i dont even feel bad.    if ur worried about the animal pop dont harvest them easy way to look at it for bringing back a natural predator

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Re: Trail cams in the news
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2008, 10:58:15 PM »
i am all for wolves being brought back to their native wildlife as i am sure we as humans will cope with it like nature has.   too bad for the ranchers since they brought this on in the first place when they killed all the wolves.      BOOOO hoooo for them i dont even feel bad.    if ur worried about the animal pop dont harvest them easy way to look at it for bringing back a natural predator

So who is going to take care of the population when it gets out of control? What happens when the wolves decide to take on non wild animals for food? Mother Nature is so out of whack that it will always need the human touch to keep things balanced. There is no way that you can let nature be like a couple hundred years ago. It would be nice, but it just won't happen.




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Re: Trail cams in the news
« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2008, 11:36:25 PM »
Olygreen??   SHUT UP!!!
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Re: Trail cams in the news
« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2008, 11:40:17 PM »
Let me refresh that!!  What are you saying??
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Re: Trail cams in the news
« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2008, 01:13:33 AM »
LOL shut up great comment  :dunno:   i always thought nature controlled itself which is what will and should happen again

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Re: Trail cams in the news
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2008, 01:43:22 AM »
i always thought nature controlled itself which is what will and should happen again

You got that right olygreen, man being the top preditor I will do my part to keep the numbers down :guns:
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Re: Trail cams in the news
« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2008, 05:11:03 AM »
LOL shut up great comment  :dunno:   i always thought nature controlled itself which is what will and should happen again

If you consider human intervention part of nature then you are right. But if you take out the human equation, at least in North America, that ship will never right itself.




 


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