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In our study, scientists and Whitefish members worked together on a study design based on questions the First Nation posed – How are forestry and oil and gas affecting moose distribution in their traditional territories?
We settled on a stratified-random design of 100 cameras that allowed us to capture species deep in the forest and not just those along roadsides and trails.
Whitefish members installed cameras, check them twice a year to change batteries and retrieve data cards. Whitefish members also sort through the thousands of photographs collected, identify and tag species and clean the raw data. At this point, they pass the baton back to scientists who create models of species distribution according to landuse.