Who's Counting?

NPCA's Who's Counting? report examines the data available to the National Park Service in considering the management of wildlife populations. The report concludes that increased support for park science would yield more informed wildlife management decisions, and calls on the Park Service to increase support for conducting and analyzing population science for hunted species, support regularly scheduled community harvest surveys, and to support a new position for a statewide wildlife data manager.

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Minding the Gap

One of the recommendations in Who's Counting? calls on the Park Service to increase support for conducting and analyzing population science for hunted species such as wolf, moose, caribou, brown bear and Dall sheep.  NPCA’s research shows that in most parks and for most species increased funding for expanding existing research programs and/or starting new ones where no research has been done to date would provide the park service with much better baseline population information for these hunted species.   In addition to increasing each park’s base budget for wildlife research, the report also recommends developing a program to recruit and train the next generation of field biologists and to expand park service partnerships with universities to help with the workload.

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And The Wildlife Therein

NPCA’s story of how these two wildlife reports were developed in partnership with the National Park Service was recently told in the June 2009 Issue of Alaska Park Science.

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