Public Land Trail Cam Etiquette

[elkduds]

I sit next to a fish biologist at work. He did the trail cam at the boat launch technique to count anglers and when he told me boat launches get used for anything and everything, he really meant it.

Depends what one means by 'boat,' and of course, 'launch.'

 

[IDiot]

I sit next to a fish biologist at work. He did the trail cam at the boat launch technique to count anglers and when he told me boat launches get used for anything and everything, he really meant it.

I second that.

 

[Laszlo Cravensworth]

Im actually surprised more information isn't shared to biologists from private trail camera owners. The public probably has decades worth of information in a single year and at zero cost to taxpayers.

They do use private trail cam data for studies, at least here in MN. One instance was for a gut pile study, but I think there may have been others as well.

ODFW will record a note on something if it's interesting (ie wolverine) but only wants to use data collected from their randomly deployed cameras. They'll set out a grid and randomize the locations of cameras and then send some poor technician 4 miles down a wilderness trail and have them drop 2000 ft elevation into a canyon if that's where the randomized point is.

 

[ShootsManyBullets]

I sit next to a fish biologist at work. He did the trail cam at the boat launch technique to count anglers and when he told me boat launches get used for anything and everything, he really meant it.

Like launching a skin boat to t*na town?