Want to know how we determine who caused a deers death? This is how:

Ever seen a flying squirrel? 😆

Come see my talk on caribou calf survival under Indigenous leadership in Salon 4 today at 04:00. #4 @ 4 don’t miss it!

Great day at the office. Today doing some mule deer summer range diet assessments.

Need an electric fence in the Elk Valley, BC? Want to remove an unused fruit tree? Reach out to kootenaycostshares@gov.bc.ca and you can get financial support to keep your property safer from bears. More info here: wildlifescience.ca/projects/wil...

Great evening with some @y2y.bsky.social friends discussing wildlife conservation and coexistence in the Elk Valley and beyond. Awesome to have graphics from @rushstudio.bsky.social and Fuse consulting anchoring our discussions. Exciting solutions for highway collisions and bear conflicts brewing.

NEW PAPER: looking into the erosion of southern mountain caribou migrations. Over 35 years, migration distances shrank 15-25%, and elevational migrations are collapsing. Habitat loss, not weather, likely the main culprit. A major conservation challenge ahead.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

NEW PAPER: The @libererofellows.bsky.social team led by Dr. Schiller looked at what's working for species recovery in 🇨🇦. Species recovery wasn't affected by human or financial capacity provided but was possible when the primary cause of decline was alleviated.
www.facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10....

DNA metabarcoding data collection underway. We’re going to figure out what these deer and sheep are eating all winter!

NEW PAPER: We followed 76 grizzly bears in a human-dominated landscape to explore coexistence. What we found surprised us. Tons of mortality, tons of conflict, and yet also tons of bears—3x denser than Banff National Park. How could this be possible? conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I'm Clayton. I do wildlife stuff. I'm reserving my place on the various social options until one is decided by the people