Projects

CROSS-CUTTING

• Native American/First Nations Collaboration for Conservation - Projects in US and Canada building capacity for wildlife monitoring and conservation planning on tribal land 
• Climate Change Initiative - To develop management strategies that lessen the stress of climate change on wildlife, and to redirect conservation planning efforts to protect areas that are more resilient to such changes
• Warm Waters for Cool Bears
• Impact of exurban development on wildlife species and habitat
• Wildlife Action Opportunities Fund – (DUKE)

ADIRONDACKS, NEW YORK

• Adirondack Communities and Landscapes Program - Community-based approach to research and conservation
• Adirondack Living Landscapes Program - Identifying threats to key species and habitats
• Adir ondack Cooperative Loon Program - Education and research addressing the effects of contaminants and human activities on loon populations
• Adirondack Forests - The region’s forest management, and its impacts on human and wildlife communities, as well as on forest health
• Black Bear Education, Awareness & Research (BBEAR) - To help educate people entering bear country and to better understand the causes and solutions of human-bear conflicts
• Atlas of the Adirondacks - Mapping and distribution of wildlife and communities

• Arctic Coastal Plain - Development effects on shorebirds on the arctic coastal plain

GREATER YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM

• Wolverine Ecology and Conservation  - A long-term, comprehensive study of the elusive wolverine, a little known carnivore - its den sites, travel patterns
• Carnivore Connectivity in the Centennial Mountains - Surveying the Centennial Mountain Range between Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and the Salmon-to-Selway Ecosystem in Idaho to discern use of corridor by wolverine, bear and cougar
• Path of the Pronghorn - Long-term study of pronghorn, America's only endemic ungulate, and its lengthy annual migration from Green River Valley to the Tetons along an increasingly developed corridor
• Pronghorn, Wolf and Coyote Dynamics
• Setting Priorities for Wildlife Conservation - Madison Valley Conservation Planning
• Impact of energy development on wildlife
• Corridor Conservation Initiative

LOST RIVER SINKS SAGEBRUSH 

• Idaho National Laboratory (INL) - Ecology and conservation of sagebrush steppe wildlife

• New York Bird Monitoring Program - To evaluate New York City's parks as migratory bird stopover sites

PACIFIC WEST

• Wildlife response to fire - Response to fire and fire surrogate experiments
• Woodpecker and other bird responses to restoration - In pine forests and in riparian areas
• Pacific Fisher Ecology - Populations and the Hupa Valley Tribe, Hoopa Valley, CA
• Urban Black Bears - Black Bears in Lake Tahoe

WCS CANADA

• Northern Appalachian Conservation - Conserving lynx, marten and transboundary conservation planning
• Ontario's Northern Boreal - Wolverine, caribou and traditional knowledge
• Crowsnest Pass - Southern Alberta - Core area and connectivity conservation for large carnivore populations along the Canadian Rockies
• Greater Nahanni - Grizzly bears, caribou and Dall's sheep inform park expansion
• Freshwater fish of the boreal forest of northern Ontario - a review of development, conservation and research priorities
• Climate change and the Arctic food web
• Yukon Conservation Planning
• Field Vet Program