TWO OUT OF THREE AIN’T BAD- FOREST CARNIVORE MONITORING IN THE SWAN, CLEARWATER AND BLACKFOOT VALLEYS

As part of the Collaborated Forest Landscape Restoration Program, the US Forest Service engaged in multi-party forest carnivore inventory and monitoring across the Swan, Clearwater and Blackfoot Valleys between 2013 and 2016.  The target species for detection were wolverine, fisher and Canada lynx.  The methods utilized non-invasive winter survey methods across the 1.5 million acres...