US Fish and Wildlife Service, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Sierra Nevada Red Foxes and a Plethora of Acronyms and Jargon Decoded.
In which, theoretically at least, we attempt to put together a coherent story based on today's ODFW press release.
The upshot here is that as of today the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has officially decided not to list the Sierra Nevada Red Fox (SNRF) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) on the basis of a study conducted by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) in conjunction with US Forest Service (USFS).
Said study confirmed SNRF presence in the Oregon Cascades, specifically, in the Mt. Jefferson, Mt. Washington and Three Sisters Wilderness Areas respectively. Additional samples indicating possible SNRF presence were collected as far north as Mt. Hood Nat'l Forest and in Crater Lake Nat'l Park.
The study used cameras, hair snares and bait and lasted from 2012-2014. DNA samples were analyzed at UC Davis in California.
Note: this is old AF and should have been posted many eons ago but for some reason was overlooked and has since withered on the vine. Normally I don't even bother with these old errors, but I've recently been trying to clean up and otherwise generally revitalize the blog --more as an exercise in personal edification than anything else-- and in the process I came across this and thought it was cool enough to deserve a post, even were it several years out of date.
So there you have it.
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Note: this is old AF and should have been posted many eons ago but for some reason was overlooked and has since withered on the vine. Normally I don't even bother with these old errors, but I've recently been trying to clean up and otherwise generally revitalize the blog --more as an exercise in personal edification than anything else-- and in the process I came across this and thought it was cool enough to deserve a post, even were it several years out of date.
So there you have it.
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