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2013 Autumn | Natural Science & Restoration

Transboundary Carnivore Conservation

Student(s):

Connie Combs

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment

Site supervisor(s):

Jen Watkins

Partner(s):

  • Conservation Northwest

Faculty advisor(s):

Aaron Wirsing, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington

My internship project focused on collaborative wildlife conservation for carnivores. I facilitated the communica- tion of the Trans-boundary Cascade Carnivore Working Group (TCC) by interviewing researchers and wildlife managers from Washington and British Columbia. I collected information pertaining to the seven carnivore species on which the TCC focuses. With my interview data I drafted a report with relevant information on the state of previously established conservation needs and a summary of newly recognized needs for future conservation efforts. From my data I found discrepancies in the level of conservation for individual species, and provided recommendations for improving the TCC’s efforts.