Grizzly bear field techs Sue and Sierra are recapping their summer in a new series of blog posts! Check out part 1 which covers training and their first shifts! #FieldworkFriday friresearch.ca/news/2025-gr...

Why did the grizzly never finish the movie? It kept hitting paws. 🐾⏸️ #DadJoke #TrailCamTuesday

Most people will never see a cougar in the wild. And that’s exactly how they like it. 🐾

One theme of our moose research is finding out what landcape conditions affect their population trends. #TrailcamTuesday

Gord Stenhouse, Karen Graham, and Terry Larsen accepted the 2025 ASTech Award in the environment and ecosystems category. friresearch.ca/news/grizzly...

Over 20 years ago, Scott Nielsen was a grad student studying grizzly bear habitat through our Grizzly Bear Program. One thing stood out: grizzly bears were using regenerating harvest blocks. Now a prof at the U of A, Dr. Nielsen returns to find out why. youtu.be/1vZX_KnCD9w?...

I presented my latest work on drone‑based surveys to estimate moose populations. Using simulations, we were able to: - Compared various drone platforms - Found that fixed‑wing drones equipped with a gimbal‑mounted camera provide a viable, safe alternative to conventional methods. #TWS2025 #drone

Postdoc Laura Griffin collab'd w @lfinnegal.bsky.social @friresearch.bsky.social and analyzed telemetry data for caribou and moose in AB to show nuanced responses to forest disturbances from pine beetle, harvest & fire, including avoidance by caribou and female moose doi.org/10.1002/jwmg... (4/6)

Fall forecast: cooler temperatures, longer nights and 90% chance of bedtime snacks (because hibernation bodies don’t build themselves). #TrailcamTuesday

How do different disturbances impact a stream and its riparian zone? This August, a Water and Fish project used drones equipped with high resolution LiDAR and thermal sensors to survey 24 streams across four site types: 🌲 Forested 🔥 Fire-affected 🪵 Harvested 🏍️ OHV-impacted

It's the last day at #TWS2025 but we've got a pretty good finale lined up. ✔️more efficient grizzly bear monitoring ✔️what's influencing moose population size and trends ✔️where are the moose and where are they going?

We are a minor part of this work! The true Hiro is at @irssubc.bsky.social

Why is a group of martens called a richness? Many of these "terms of venery" – a pride of lions, a parliament of owls, etc. – were first recorded in the 15th century. At least some seem to have been meant to be satire (or at least amusing). What are your favourites? #trailcamtuesday

Today at the @thewildlifesociety.bsky.social conference in Edmonton, check out: 🐻advances toward monitoring grizzly bear populations from the hormones in their hair 🦌the drivers of moose and deer use of wellsites and harvest blocks #TWS2025

We're in Edmonton for @thewildlifesociety.bsky.social! Today we have great presentations and posters about a few ungulate projects, including from our partners @l-hambrecht.bsky.social and Hiroto Goto from @irssubc.bsky.social.

A recording of the presentation is available now.

The webinar is today at 3! Register at the link below.

On September 30, Canadians will recognise the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. We’re taking time this month to reflect on and share some resources that have helped us better understand the legacy of residential schools and the ongoing impacts of colonialism.

The Moose Research Initiative has been studying key questions related to moose populations, habitat, and monitoring. Because moose are a temperature-limited species, one research theme is the interaction between climate and forest management strategies on moose. friresearch.ca/publications...

The Southern Rockies Watershed Project is based out of @UAlberta, and began after the 2003 Lost Creek Wildfire in the eastslopes of southern Alberta. It has continued to gather over 20 years of data exploring many aspects of watershed health. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWry...

DYK The grizzly bear is one of eight species of bears distributed worldwide. Genetically, their closest cousins are not black bears as you might expect, but polar bears! #Trailcamtuesday

For Truth and Reconciliation Week, the NCTRC is giving a free lunch and learn today at 11 MT. Join residential school Survivor and artist Antoine Mountain and author Janice Forsyth in their conversation with Dr. Vanessa Watts. trw-svr.nctr.ca/lunch-and-le...

In Alberta and British Columbia, forest management strategies within woodland caribou ranges are changing in timing, intensity, and spatial arrangement in an effort to reduce the impact on caribou. But what will be the impacts to moose? us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

On September 30, Canadians will recognise the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. We’re taking time this month to reflect on and share some resources that have helped us better understand the legacy of residential schools and the ongoing impacts of colonialism.

Claire has a new blog about the Water and Fish team's survey of Kakwa Lake! The goal: sample the whole system above Kakwa Falls to understand the population of non-native rainbow trout that are making their way down into threatened bull trout habitat. friresearch.ca/news/year-tw...

The lynx and the hare. A boom in the number of hares causes a boom in the number of lynx, which causes a drop in the hare population, which causes a crash in the lynx population, which causes a boom in the hare population... It's the song that never ends! #TrailCamTuesday

On September 30, Canadians will recognise the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. We’re taking time this month to reflect on and share some resources that have helped us better understand the legacy of residential schools and the ongoing impacts of colonialism.

DYK the Grizzly Bear Program started in 1998? The goal: figure out how bears and people can share the landscape. #TrailCamTuesday

On September 30, Canadians will recognise the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. We’re taking time this month to reflect on and share some resources that have helped us better understand the legacy of residential schools and the ongoing impacts of colonialism.

We're delighted to welcome two incredible new members of the team! Jeremy will be sifting through the mountain of data generated by the Southern Rockies Watershed Project. Jiji joins the admin team and will help support all our growing research programs. friresearch.ca/news/welcome...

In the night, the forest is quiet... Until it isn’t. One bear. One scent pile. One good time.

Collecting stream temperature data is a key project for the Water and Fish Program. For the last 3 years the team has hammered 100s of temp loggers into streams in the eastslopes. Occasionally it takes extra effort to retrieve the data. #FieldworkFriday 📷: Parker Makkreel.

Even the birders on our team aren't sure what species these are. Can an expert help us out? #TrailcamTuesday #BirdIdentification

The caribou crew have wrapped up this summer's data collection for the climate-and-forestry-effects-on-moose project. For #FieldworkFriday, here are some pics from when they first learned the protocol. This week they've started training for the next project—Stay tuned for more!

In the second week of July, Rosalie Pelletier and the Water and Fish team were in southern Alberta surveying bull and westslope cutthroat trout in Fallentimber and Silvester creeks. Check out the blog post here: friresearch.ca/news/assessi... #FieldworkFriday

Preliminary results are in: Fixed-wing drones show strong potential for moose surveys. Monitoring moose populations has been traditionally done by helicopter. Our partners at UBC are exploring if drones are a better alternative. 🔗Learn more: friresearch.ca/publications... @irssubc.bsky.social

Ordered a de-calf double-double? No? Sorry, moose-t’ve been a mistake. #TrailCamTuesday

Late last fall, we sent over 1000 hair samples – a year of hard work by the grizzly bear team – to the lab. But we were holding our breath for one sample in particular: a bear of the size and colour typical of grizzly bears and head features that looked more like a black bear's.

Let's check in with the grizzly bear crew for #FieldworkFriday. A family of black bears visited this hair snag site and left a record number of hair samples while romping around. Emma did a stellar job keeping every sample organized and resetting the site, so it's ready for more visitors!

It's time for another guess the bear; this one even tricked some of our biologists! Before we sent its hair off to the lab for DNA sequencing, we made our guesses. Before we reveal the answer, see if you can figure it out. We'll post the answer in a week! #trailcamtuesday

Can Bull Trout eggs be transported from the field to the lab? Yes: 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬. 1. Fertilizing eggs in the field & transporting them directly 2. Transporting the sperm & eggs separately, then fertilizing them in the lab Both methods worked!

This Indigenous Peoples Day is a chance to reflect on the relationships between the rivers, fish, and First Nations who have stewarded them since time immemorial. Once common in waters south of Lesser Slave Lake, Arctic grayling have declined due to degradation and fragmentation of streams.

QUAT else is new? The Water and Fish Program has been ramping up it's field season for the last month and this #fieldworkfriday we're highlighting important step when working in Alberta's streams.

Where do misbehaving rainbows get sent? Prism. It's a bear-able sentence. Lots of time to reflect. Happy Father’s Day to those raising their own cubs. Thanks for the cringey jokes, the trail wisdom, and for pointing out the rainbows (even when it’s still raining).

NEW PAPER 📣 Estimation of #ForestStructure & fuel change across #MountainPineBeetle attacked forests using mobile- & RPAS-based #lidar #OpenAccess🔓 doi.org/10.1080/0703... ✍️ Gerbrecht (@evangerbs.bsky.social), Coops, Carroll, Bater & Buechner Highlights in 🧵 @forestry.ubc.ca #remotesensing

Forest bathing is a practice of connecting with nature by engaging all your senses. Sniff the rotten cow blood scent lure, listen to the crush of branches as you flatten our hair snag site, and relax into the soft mossy ground. #TrailcamTuesday

June 6 is World Caribou Day! We believe science can find solutions for caribou's long-term conservation. Since 2013, we have been working to untangle the relationships between Alberta's caribou herds, human activity, and other parts of the ecosystem.

June in Alberta is calving season for several species in the deer family, including Elk! #TrailcamTuesday

We’re hiring a new member of the admin team to help support all our research programs. Apply by June 15! friresearch.ca/news/employm...