1. Northwest Boreal Forest Lynx Project
Nate Berg

3. 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.

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

11. 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.

12. 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

13. Northwest Boreal Forest Lynx Project
Nate Berg