Northwest Boreal Forest Lynx Project https://www.instagram.com/thelynxproject/ Nate Berg

Snowshoe hare populations used to cycle nearly synchronously throughout much of North America. Over the past 20 years this continent-wide cycle has lacked synchrony.

We are learning interesting things about lynx… Sometimes they become nomadic.

Project Focus Primary Problem 1: Land managers do not understand what habitat components are critical to maintain lynx dispersal corridors, so they are unable to prioritize land acquisitions between protected areas or quantify potential threats to maintaining movement corridors. Secondary Problem 2: Our ability to maintain long-term viable populations of lynx is inhibited because we do not understand the role of lynx dispersal in maintaining local to continental scale lynx-hare population dynamics. Secondary Problem 3: We don’t understand the impacts of trapping, and potential regulatory changes, on local and regional lynx population dynamics.

Due to the scale of this study it is being replicated at multiple locations in Alaska and Canada. Study Sites: Tetlin NWR Koyukuk-Nowitna-Innoko NWR Yukon-Flats NWR Kanuti NWR Gates of the Arctic National Park Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest Kluane Lake Research Station, Yukon Partners: University of Alaska Fairbanks Trent University University of Alberta McGill University Washington State University Alaska Department of Fish and Game United States Geological Survey Bureau of Land Management Department of Defense Boone Smith Wildlife Captures National Geographic Society Northwest Boreal LCC WildLandscapes International Wilburforce Foundation Wildlife Management Institute

Northwest Boreal Forest Lynx Project https://www.instagram.com/thelynxproject/ Nate Berg