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Clover arena strategy survival arena8/14/2023 ![]() ![]() To donate go to the BCWF website and select Southern Interior Mule Deer Project under designation and we will issue you a tax receipt. ![]() ![]() Please send an email to to be added to the camera trap volunteer list. Camera related costs for this year is estimated at $6000 CDN to replace batteries, repair cameras, purchase replacement cameras, and try the camera guards. We are also aggregating the tens of thousands of pictures so they can be quantified electronically by volunteers. The project will need more volunteers and additional funding. This spring (May/June) we will again be moving our cameras to summer range, topping up batteries, adding guards, and removing data cards. Grant Hiebert, one of our super volunteers, has designed a guard for the trail cameras to try to reduce the number of cameras moved/damaged. Last year we had one trail camera stolen, at least five cameras which were damaged, and approximately 30% which had been moved by animals. Sophie Gilbert’s Lab at the University of Idaho. This portion of the project is being led by Sam Foster, our PhD candidate with Dr. The cameras will help us identify relative abundance of predators and prey between our study areas, how the large mammal community responds to landscape change, and competition between ungulates. Last fall a number of those cameras were moved from summer range to winter range. Last summer our team members and volunteers placed 155 cameras out in our three study areas encompassing ~40,000 km2, nearly the size of Switzerland. The deer was emaciated, and its lungs were full of yellow puss.īelow is an 8-month clip of her movements and spring migration, including where she ultimately died. It is presumed she was attacked by a cougar but not killed, and ultimately died of an infection which was caused by the attack. Most of the deer choose nearly the same path when migrating back to winter range in the fall as when they leave it in the spring.įollowing is a migration clip from a deer captured Apas a 10 month old fawn weighing 52.1kg, recaptured Decemweighing 66.67kg, and died August 23 rd, 2019 from a cougar attack.įollowing are photos of the necropsy conducted on the doe which was very skinny. On average the collared deer migrated 55 kms, with the longest migrant coming from the West Okanagan moving approximately 100 kms. ![]() Most deer moved to summer range April-May and returned to winter range in October-Nov. To volunteer please email of our deer migrated. We are looking for volunteers who are willing to be trained to investigate cougar kill sites and set up trail cameras. The project currently has 12 cougars collared across southern BC looking at diet, movement and hunting. The mortality investigation side of the project is working together with the cougar-prey project (started this winter), led by Siobhan Darlington, PhD student in Dr. To date the project has investigated 55 mortalities since the project began. The team is still collecting overwinter fawn survival data for this year we will have another update this spring. Investigations are conducted by the SIMDeer team and volunteers who were trained in 2019.īetween April 2018-Jan 2020 West Okanagan adult doe annual survival was 83%, and fawn survival over last winter (December 2018-May 2019) was 61%. Part of the project is trying to establish when, where and how our deer die. Since we started collaring two years ago we’ve collared 232 deer (including collars which failed or fell off as designed). Since the program began 2 years ago, we’ve collared 232 deer (including deer whose collars failed or fell off as designed). In the last couple of months our team added 6 adults and 19 fawns to the West Okanagan study area, 15 adults and 18 fawns in the Boundary study area and 5 adults and 20 fawns to the Cache Creek study area. Since the fall our team and volunteers have been out checking and moving trail cameras, conducting mortality investigations and capturing and collaring more does and fawns. The Southern Interior Mule Deer Project had a great winter capture season. Southern Interior Mule Deer Project Winter Update ![]()
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