Articles written by Wildlife Biologist Paul Meyers

Wildlife Biologist Paul Meyers, Julia Butler Hansen Refuge for the Coumbian White-tailed deer|Sep 11, 2014

Counting wildlife may seem simple, but it can be one of the more difficult things that wildlife managers do. Simply counting what you see can be misleading, as animals can be missed, important areas can be inaccessible, and visibility can vary among vegetation types. You could make assumptions and test them, but in the case of Columbian White-tailed deer, we have turned to technology to get around these problems. Columbian white-tailed deer are counted using infrared videography-a video camera...