We sometimes consider remotely placed automated cameras (trail cameras) to be a recent invention, yet remotely triggered cameras have been used since the early 1900s when trip wires and fl ash bulbs were used to capture images of wildlife. By the early 1980s, technology had advanced to include infrared beam…

We estimated lesser prairie-chicken (LPC) population sizes annually from 2012 to 2018, and 2020 to 2022 in the 2011 estimated occupied range of the LPC, as defined by the LPC Interstate Working Group in Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. In 2022, a redefined area of the estimated occupied…

High-quality, abundant habitat is the foundation of healthy, growing mule deer and black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus) populations. It ensures that individuals within populations have adequate food, water and shelter so they can survive and reproduce. Maintaining the right balance of productive deer habitats is one of the greatest challenges facing…

Because prairie dogs function as ecosystem engineers and keystone species in North America’s grasslands (Fig. 1), their conservation and management lies at the core of many conservation efforts. However, prairie dog management is challenging because they are severely affected by epizootic plague outbreaks caused by the introduced bacterium Yersinia pestis1,…