Wildlife

I conduct field research and manage the Hoopa Valley Tribe's Mountain Lion Project, examining interactions between mountain lions, black bears, and deer. My job includes tracking, locating, and capturing mountain lions to fit them with GPS collars so we can closely monitor their movements and identify places where they have made a kill. I will then hike to the kill-site and investigate what the lion killed and which scavengers have been present at the kill-site. I cover roughly 1,200 square miles of National Forest, Wilderness Area, and Tribal lands in Humboldt, Trinity, and Siskiyou counties and go where the lions go.