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  • Anne Carlson
  • Aimee Hurt
  • Kyran Kunkel
  • Megan Parker
  • Deborah Smith
  • Sara Thompson
  • Pat Tucker
  • Alice Whitelaw

Non-Invasive scientific inquiry, conservation, and management.


Reindl-Thompson, S.A., J. Shivik, A. Whitelaw, A. Hurt, K. Higgins. 2006.
Efficacy of Scent Dogs in Detecting Black-Footed Ferrets at a Reintroduction Site in South Dakota.
Wildlife Society Bulletin 34(5):1435–1439

Smith, D. A., K. Ralls, B. L. Cypher, H. O. Clark, Jr., P. A. Kelly, D. F. Williams, and J. E. Maldonado. 2006 b.
Relative abundance of endangered San Joaquin kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis mutica) based on scat-detection dog surveys.
Southwestern Naturalist 51:210-219

Smith, D. A., K. Ralls, A. Hurt, B. Adams, M. Parker, and J. E. Maldonado. 2006 a.
Assessing reliability of microsatellite genotypes from kit fox fecal samples using genetic and GIS analyses. Molecular Ecology 15:387-406

Smith, D. A., K. Ralls, B. L. Cypher, and J. E. Maldonado. 2005.
Assessment of scat-detection dog surveys to determine kit fox distribution.
Wildlife Society Bulletin 33:897-904

Ralls, K. and D.A. Smith. 2004.
Latrine use by San Joaquin kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis mutica) and coyotes (Canis latrans).
Western North American Naturalist 64:544-547

Smith, D., K. Ralls, A. Hurt, B. Adams, M. Parker, B. Davenport, M.C. Smith, and J.E. Maldonado. 2003.
Detection and accuracy rates of dogs trained to find scats of San Joaquin kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis mutica).
Animal Conservation 6:339-346

Smith D., K. Ralls, B. Davenport, B. Adams, and J.E. Maldonado. 2001.
Canine assistants for conservationists.
Science 291:435

Hurt A., B. Davenport and E. Greene. 2000.
Training dogs to distinguish between black bear (Ursus americanus) and grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) feces.
University of Montana Under-Graduate Biology Journal.

wildlife detector dog Camas indicating on a black-footed ferret burrow

NJ Dept of Wildlife bobcat scat dog Bear preparing for a search
 
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