Job Progress Report - Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration: Large Carnivore Ecology and Populations Status

Objectives
The objectives of this proposal is to obtain a better understanding of the status, ecological role, and relationships to human populations of large carnivores in the state. Studies of lynx will define how lynx use landscape features and micro-habitat types. Investigations on cougars will identify cougar populations characteristics and define environmental and human social parameters in areas where cougar-human interactions occur, whereas the objectives for predation study is to assess the effects of predation on elk and deer population recruitment by bear and cougars.