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RFMA 2400

Trapline-specific descriptive results.

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Context

Frank La Caille bought RFMA 2400 in 1974 and currently resides on the trapline.

Human Footprint in 2018

Trapline 2400 had the least amount of human footprint of the three traplines in the study. Of the 0.2% human footprint covering the area of this trapline, energy features–specifically conventional seismic features–made up the majority of the footprint cover.

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Human footprint in 2018 in RFMA 2400.

Landcover

Trapline 2400 is mainly made up of forested landcover, primarily:

  • Black Spruce (24% of the area)

  • Deciduous Forest (22.9%)

  • Treed Fen (18.8%), and 

  • Pine Forest (14.7%). 

Swamp features also make up a significant portion of the area (7.2%).

Landcover (including overall human footprint) in RFMA 2400 .

Landcover Descriptions

This table shows the habitats that cameras were placed in on Trapline 2400. There is considerable variation, which likely allowed a wide variety of animals to be captured. For example, Camera 99 was placed in 100% swamp, whereas Camera 116 was placed in 100% Pine Forest.

Camera Cover (Landcover/Human Footprint) Area (%)
93 Water 100.0
94 Open Wetland 78.4
  Treed Fen 21.6
95 Deciduous 84.8
  Water 9.3
  Energy Footprint 5.9
95-1 Deciduous 47.7
  White Spruce 46.3
  Energy Footprint 6.0
99 Swamp 100.0
107 Swamp 49.3
  Water 50.7
109 Deciduous 31.8
  Swamp 67.4
  Water 0.8
113 Pine 99.5
  Energy Footprint 0.5
114 Black Spruce 96.2
  Energy Footprint 3.8
115 Treed Fen 96.2
  Energy Footprint 3.8
116 Pine 100.0
117 Swamp 96.2
  Energy Footprint 3.8
119 Deciduous 37.9
  Treed Fen 59.0
  Water 3.1
20 Deciduous 27.5
  Swamp 72.5
Landcover descriptions (vegetation, human footprint) by camera in RFMA 2400.

Number of Images

Trapline 2400 captured 6,512 images from 14 cameras, and these images were made up of 15 species.

  • This was the only trapline of the three in this project that captured Bison, which was the second most captured species on this trapline.
     
  • Black Bears and Moose were the first and third most numerous animals tagged in the images on this trapline.
Number of images for most common species in RFMA 2400.
Species Number of Images
Bison 2187
Black Bear 2311
Canada Lynx 112
Coyote 2
Fisher 18
Gray Wolf 433
Hoary Marmot 7
Moose 1299
Raccoon 2
Red Fox 37
Red Squirrel 47
Snowshoe Hare 30
Striped Skunk 4
White-tailed Deer 22
Wolverine 1
Landcover descriptions (vegetation, human footprint) by camera in RFMA 2400.

Estimated Density

We can use the camera images to estimate the abundance of animals in a trapline, referred to as density. This is done by using the length of time the camera is in the field, the total time over which each species is present in the camera field of view, and the size of area that each camera is capturing. More details about estimated density of each species over the whole project and by trapline can be found in Section 3.1.

Bison had the highest estimated density of any animal captured on this trapline, at 2.6 individuals per km2, but with error bars ranging from 1 to 5. The error bars are wide because only 5 of the 15 cameras detected a bison, and one camera in particular (FL-WP95-MM33) detected a large number (over 31 individuals per km2). This skewed distribution is typical of herding animals; elk is another example that shows this pattern.

Moose, black bears, and gray wolves had the next highest density, at about 1 individual per km2.

Estimated density in RFMA 2400.

Human Activity

Images with both “Human” and “Vehicle” tags were added to show human activity in this trapline. Because of the clumped pattern, it’s likely that this is mainly reflecting set up and take down of cameras.

Human activity in RFMA 2400.