Banff National Park of Canada

Park Management

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Highway Fencing & Wildlife Crossings

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Explore the toolkit - Image Gallery

Monitoring tools

• trackpads: raked clear and checked every three days for animal tracks
• remote cameras: images provide more information about the animals that have left tracks (time of day, adult/young, sometimes gender)
• barbed wire for DNA hair sampling: effectively "captures" bear hair without harming animals

Trackpads

Trackpad across the width of a wildlife overpass © Parks Canada / J. Klafki	Trackpad in a creek underpass © Parks Canada / K. Putnam
Black bear footprint left in a trackpad © T. Clevenger, WTI / Parks Canada / C. Gill	Elk tracks in a raked trackpad © T. Clevenger, WTI / Parks Canada / C. Gill

Remote cameras

A remote camera took this image of a black bear using an underpass © T. Clevenger, WTI / Parks Canada	A remote camera at one end of an overpass trackpad © Parks Canada / K. Putnam
Close up of a remote camera © T. Clevenger

Barbed wire

Barbed wire along an overpass trackpad © Parks Canada / K. Putnam	Animal hair snagged by barbs © T. Clevenger
Hair is placed in sample envelopes for the DNA lab © T. Clevenger

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