The Idaho Department of Fish and Game has hired a new wildlife biologist, specializing in carnivores, who will help the agency transition from monitoring wolf populations using radio collars to using scat analysis and remote cameras.
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — Dave Ausband has been given the job of implementing a new and more accurate approach to tracking and counting wolves in Idaho.
The effort should produce the best estimate of the state’s wolf population ever. Biologists believe many wolves go uncounted using traditional means such as radio collars.
After this winter, the state Department of Fish and Game plans to move away from the use of radio collars as its chief tool for monitoring wolves.
Biologist changing way wolves are tracked – Livestock – Capital Press.