This interesting article was posted to the Daily Inter Lake. Apparently, wolf counts are usually minimum estimates. This new technique could be more accurate . . .
Monitoring wolf populations has never been easy and it’s gotten more difficult in recent years with an expanding wolf population in Montana, but now there’s interest in putting a new method to work, possibly as soon as this year.
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials have been working with the Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Montana for the last few years to develop a “patch occupancy modeling” for wolves . . .