Winter wolf activity on a trail through the woods
We retrieved this footage yesterday from a camera in the Bug Creek Pack territory. The video shows all of the wolf footage (along with some other critters!) recorded on this camera from December 1 to April 10, our wolf pack/population survey period. And we can confidently say there is at least one big fluffy old wolf in the area!
This one example highlights the fun and challenge of making sense of wolf pack dynamics during winter using trail cameras. Of course, this is only 1 of about 20 cameras we have in this pack’s territory so we have a lot more data on this pack than just this camera.
And this also highlights why having numerous cameras in a pack’s territory to get repeated observations of packs throughout winter is important to get accurate data. Certainly, if you only had a single camera like this, it would be very difficult to make any conclusions with a high-level of confidence.
In total, we had almost 350 cameras deployed this winter so we have lots of footage to go through in the upcoming months but certainly fun to spend time pouring over the footage and analyzing the data.
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