Chris Hays

Category: Wildlife

Chris will be monitoring a diversity of wildlife populations in NE Montana. This will include visual encounter and dipnet surveys for amphibians, visual encounter surveys for reptiles, small mammal trapping, and acoustic detection of bats. The project is a pilot project to determine how to monitor a variety of taxa with estimation of occupancy rates and detection probabilities in major habitat cover types. The information will be used to update the Montana Species of Concern List and prioritize conservation funding.