Category: Field Work
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Team Army 2020
Just like you, the last year has been full of challenges, stress, and uncertainty due to COVID-19. Particularly concerning for our project, 2020 was slated to be our ‘big’ field season, staffed by a squad of field technicians. Thanks to open dialogue among project collaborators and a shared interest in taking proactive mitigation measures, our…
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Team Army 2019
We want to acknowledge Team Army 2019 members. We were a small unit, but for this project I felt it was better to start small and manageable than be too big and potentially invite greater risk of accident. Fortunately, we all knew the Park’s back country really well, so we operated about as efficiently as…
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Illustrated Summary of Project Field Work
Our research performs ground and aerial surveys across the study area to determine army cutworm moth occurrence and grizzly bear use. Technician support focuses on ground surveys, which entail scrambling into survey units to sample randomly-generated survey plots located therein. Typically, this requires technicians spend multiple days safely navigating mountainous terrain and bivouac camping on…
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Project field efforts are underway
Beginning in early July, my technicians and I began field efforts to determine grizzly bear use of potential army cutworm moth habitat across the study area. While it has proven difficult to conduct aerial surveys thus far due to turbulent summer weather patterns, we have made some exciting discoveries on the ground, inside Glacier and…
Bear Butter 