Thanks to Bart at the Oceola Fish and Game Club for hosting Mitch Brunet and I last night as we updated stakeholders on current deer research happening in the #WiRELab, in partnership with:
@bcwf.bsky.social @hctfbc.bsky.social

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check out this @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social interview with #UBCO and @biodivpathways.bsky.social wildlife scientist
@claytontlamb.bsky.social

#RoadEcology
#WiRELab

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Day 1 and done of the Crossings and Corridors Forum at #UBCO. We visited a local turtle crossing (with roadkilled turtle), Canada's first wildlife overpass, and the newly formed Okanagan Corridor, with Syilx perspectives shared by former #WiRELab student Addison Fosberry. Days 2 and 3 coming up!

Dr. Melanie Dickie’s doctoral journey earns Governor General Gold Medal for Academic Excellence

So proud of @melaniedickie.bsky.social for the much deserved recognition for an outstanding and impactful PhD Dissertation! Way to go Mel!!!!!

#WiRELab
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So proud of #WiRELab BSc Honour's students Alex and Reese for wrapping up their 8month long journey into research on cougar ecology.

Great example of #WildlifeRestoration, featuring #WiRELab postdoc @m-mclellan.bsky.social and alumni Mateen Hessami in partnership with @biodivpathways.bsky.social and many more!
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Photo update from my weekly check in with #WiRELab MSc student Landon Birch. Using his trusty T-47 snowspeeder to access high elevation vegetation plots, Landon is studying the nutritional ecology of tauntauns on the ice planet of Hoth.

If you look closely you will see them foraging!

Congratulations to #WiRELab alumni Mateen Hessami for his award winning efforts at building partnerships and recovering wildlife both during and after his MSc!

@biodivpathways.bsky.social
@ubcokanagan.bsky.social

the #WiRELAB getting ready for a new camera trap study on how animals respond to wildlife crossing structures along highways.

TWS Journals Habitat alteration is causing woodland caribou populations to decline owing to increased predation by wolves, which benefit from the increased abundance of their primary prey, moose. Management strat...

New #WiRELab/ @biodivpathways.bsky.social paper just out, led by Dr. Michelle McLellan.

We learned that fewer wolves are removed during caribou recovery efforts if primary prey - ie moose - are also managed.

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#WiRELab MSc student talks about his award-winning research on Stone's sheep in Northern BC on the 'Talk is Sheep' podcast:

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