Science Institute News Recent accomplishments of CDFW's scientific community Enumerating California’s Most Elusive Residents: Puma concolor July 13, 2018 in General It’s just before dawn in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains in Mono County. It’s a cold clear morning, a good day to be out experiencing a still very much wild area of California. California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) biologist Justin Dellinger and a Wildlife Services houndsman are preparing gear to go out looking for fresh mountain lion tracks in this vast landscape. Tagged With: capture, collar, cougar, Dellinger, eastern Sierra, GPS, houndsman, Mono, Mountain lion, puma, Sierra Nevada, tracking, Wildlife Services How Harvest Numbers Help Biologists Plan for the Future July 25, 2017 in General As California deer hunters head to the fields, forests and mountains this summer and fall, their experiences will provide wildlife biologists with key data on the health of the state’s deer herds. Tagged With: biologists, California, CDFW, collar, data, deer, deer feces, DNA, GPS, harvest, hunt, hunting, Itoga, license, population, study, survey, tag, tracking, X Zones CDFW Captures Tule Elk in Phase One of Multi-Year Study in Colusa and Lake Counties April 11, 2017 in Wildlife Research The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) recently launched the first phase of a multi-year study of tule elk in Colusa and Lake counties. In partnership with the University of California, Davis and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, and with the assistance of capture specialists from Leading Edge Aviation, researchers used helicopter net guns to capture and place satellite collars on 45 tule elk. Tagged With: California, capture, collar, elk, Lake, study, 2017, CDFW, Colusa, GPS, herds, Leading Edge Aviation, research, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, satellite, Tule, UC Davis, wildlife
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