Recipient Organization
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA
COLLEGE OF FORESTRY AND CONSERVATION
MISSOULA,MT 59812
Performing Department
College of Forestry and Conservation
Non Technical Summary
Funds are to provide experiential learning to an undergraduate wildlife student gaining seasonal experience with multiple management agencies in endangered species conservation. UM faculty helped find qualified candidates for the position.
Animal Health Component
80%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
20%
Applied
80%
Developmental
(N/A)
Goals / Objectives
Funds to University of Montana were to recruit and pay a UM undergraduate in wildlife biology program as a summer technician at Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge. Student works cooperatively on a project intended to increase survival of wild-borne black-footed ferrets.
Project Methods
Focus of the student will be to assist managers in ways to reduce wild-born black-footed ferret kit losses during summer and early fall. Partners hope to protect a portion of the adult females and their litters from coyotes with electric fence and compare litter sizes and recruitment rates with a similar number of female ferrets not protected within electric fenced areas. Another factor involved is prairie dog abundance and their productivity, so prairie dog monitoring will also be a part of the project.