Big Game Management Account Projects

Active Projects

Determining the Habitat Connectivity of Tule Elk in the Northern San Joaquin Valley

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Central Region (4)

Years: 2014 - 2020

Species: Tule Elk

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: To (1) determine the locations and attributes of core use areas including calving areas, (2) identify when and where bachelor groups of bulls disperse from the subgroups, (3) identify potential barriers to movement including anthropogenic and natural physical barriers and assess the functional connectivity of these routes, (4) determine patterns of habitat use within primary core areas, (5) collect DNA samples to support a genetic viability study by the Wildlife Branch, and (6) estimate survival rates for adult radio-collared tule elk. 

Budget: $299,700

Effects of Livestock Grazing and Large-Scale Renewable Energy Developments on Tule Elk

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Central Region (4)

Years: 2015 - 2020

Species: Tule Elk

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: To estimate changes in habitat use patterns of tule elk due to changes in cattle grazing, construction of solar plants, and conversion of dryland barely to mitigation lands for endangered species in and around the Carrizo Plain National Monument. 

Budget: $32,750

Lower Sacramento River Corridor Deer Pre-Hunt Population Assessment

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - North Central Region (2) and Wildlife Branch

Years: 2015 - 2017

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Population Monitoring

Purpose: To estimate the population abundance and trajectory of mule deer to support a new antlerless deer hunt opportunity to alleviate crop damage along the river corridor. 

Budget: $160,200

Estimation of Abundance of Multiple Deer Herds Using Fecal DNA

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - North Central Region (2)

Years: 2016 - 2022

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Population Monitoring

Purpose: To estimate the abundance and density of mule deer using fecal DNA capture-recapture methods augmented with camera trap and telemetry data.

Budget: $554,888

Greater Monticello Deer Abundance Project

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Bay Delta (3) and North Central (2) Regions

Years: 2016 - 2018

Species: Black-tailed Deer

Type of Project: Population Monitoring

Purpose: To estimate the abundance and density of black-tailed deer in the Monticello, Capay, Santa Rosa, and Clear Lake herd boundaries using fecal DNA based capture-recapture methods augmented with camera trap and telemetry data.

Budget: $17,332

Hopland Deer Abundance Validation Project

Organization: University of California Berkeley

Years: 2016 - 2020

Species: Black-tailed Deer

Type of Project: Methods Development

Purpose: To provide a test and validation of the Department's fecal DNA capture-recapture augmented with camera trap and telemetry data approach to estimating deer abundances over large-scale areas.

Budget: $816,606

Development and Assessment of an Aerial Survey Sightability Correction Model for Mule Deer

Organization: California Department of Fish and Game - South Coast Region (5)

Years: 2017 -  2020

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Methods Development

Purpose: To create a sightability model to estimate abundances of mule deer over time in areas of Orange and San Diego counties.

Budget: $406,400

Central Coast Deer Abundance Project

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Bay Delta Region (3) and Wildlife Health Lab

Years: 2017 - 2020

Species: Black-tailed Deer

Type of Project: Population Monitoring

Purpose: To estimate the abundance and density of black-tailed deer in the southern A hunt zone using fecal DNA based capture-recapture and camera trapping methods.

Budget: $332,505

B-Zones Black-tailed Deer Abundance Project

Organization: University of California Davis

Years: 2019 - 2021

Species: Black-tailed Deer

Type of Project: Population monitoring and methods development

Purpose: To (1) estimate black-tailed deer abundance, density, and population composition using fecal DNA capture-recapture and camera trapping approaches for the B1, B2, B5, and B6 deer hunt zones, (2) identify environmental covariates, including the presence and abundance of main predators, of deer density, (3) evaluate the efficiency of various sampling designs to large-scale non-invasive deer population surveys, (4) investigate functional landscape connectivity of deer and deer predator populations across the study area based on spatial genetic population structure, and (5) develop efficient sampling protocols for large-scale non-invasive monitoring of deer populations.

Budget: $215,244

Assessing Pronghorn Distribution, Movements, and Habitat Use in Northeastern California

Organization: Institute for Wildlife Studies

Years: 2017 - 2019

Species: Pronghorn

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: To implement an "adaptive study" approach to determine mechanisms regulating population size on pronghorn in northeastern California and identify potential management actions to increase pronghorn numbers. 

Budget: $70,860

Marble Mountain Elk Ecology and Management Collaborative Research Initiative

Organization: Karuk Tribe

Years: 2017 - 2019

Species: Elk

Type of Project: Research and Monitoring

Purpose: To better understand population dynamics, movements and habitat uses of Marble Mountain Roosevelt elk herds. 

Budget: $1,466,339

Population Genetic Monitoring of Black Bears

Organization: University of Wyoming

Years: 2019 - 2021

Species: Black Bear

Type of Project: Research and Monitoring

Purpose: Population genetic monitoring of black bears in Los Angeles, Mono, and San Bernardino counties.

Budget: $547,020

Big Game Tooth Cementum Analysis

Organization: Matson's Laboratory

Years: 2019 - 2023

Species: Black Bear, Mule Deer, Elk, Pronghorn, Bighorn Sheep

Type of Project: Technical Support

Purpose: To process tooth samples for age estimation.

Budget: $132,000

Technical Assistance for Abundance Estimation of Mule Deer and Bighorn Sheep

Organization: Utah State University

Years: 2019 - 2021

Species: Mule Deer and Bighorn Sheep

Type of Project: Technical Support

Purpose: Technical support for estimating abundances of mule deer and bighorn sheep

Budget: $633,073

Completed Projects

Highway 89 Stewardship Team Project

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Northern Region (1)

Years: 2008 - 2019

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: To identify mule deer migration routes and crossings along highway 89 in Sierra county.

Budget: $70,860

Black-tailed Deer Population Assessment in the Mendocino National Forest

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife (Wildlife Branch) and University of California Davis

Years: 2009 - 2014

Species: Black-tailed Deer

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: To identify causal relationships between deer population dynamics and environmental variables including habitat and predation to explain population declines of black-tailed deer in the Mendocino National Forest.

Budget: $757,744

Habitat Use, Home Range, and Denning of Black Bears in the Lake Tahoe Basin

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - North Central Region (1)

Years: 2011 - 2014

Species: Black Bear

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: To evaluate the seasonal home range and habitat use by urban averted, urban control, and wild black bears, and to determined whether aversive conditioning is an effective tool in altering urban bear behavior. 

Budget: $178,000

Carson River Deer Herd Study

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - North Central Region (2)

Years: 2011 - 2014

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: To delineate current distribution, migration patterns, and mortality factors affecting the Carson River deer population. 

Budget: $178,631

Chronic Wasting Disease Surveillance Project

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Wildlife Health Lab

Years: 2011 - 2012

Species: Mule Deer and Elk

Type of Project: Disease Monitoring

Purpose: To surveille for chronic wasting disease (CWD) through sampling and testing of suspect deer and elk, contacting hunters who harvested CWD-positive deer or elk out-of-state and assisting in the disposal of contaminated meat, outreach to meat processors and handling recommendations for deer and elk harvested out-of-state, and training volunteers to assist Law Enforcement District check stations near the California border targeting residents returning with harvested deer and elk.

Multiple Data Source Approach to Monitoring and Management of Mule Deer

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Inland Deserts Region (6)

Years: 2011 - 2016

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Methods Development

Purpose: To increase the precision and accuracy of population monitoring while reducing risks to Department of Fish and Wildlife personnel by adopting the use of a hybrid population monitoring plan to provide accurate estimates of the rates of population change and determine factors underpinning these rates of change for the Casa Diablo, Round Valley, and Goodale mule deer populations.

Budget: $370,505

Bass Hill Wildlife Area Bitterbrush Restoration

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife- Northern Region (1)

Years: 2011 - 2014

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Habitat Enhancement

Purpose: To restore bitterbrush on 25 acres of burned critical mule deer winter range. 

Budget: $4,000

Investigation of Respiratory Disease in Bighorn Sheep

Organization: Wild Sheep Foundation

Years: 2011 - 2019

Species: Bighorn Sheep

Type of Project: Disease Monitoring

Purpose: To investigate respiratory disease in bighorn sheep.

Budget: $74,349

Assessing the Efficacy of Camera Surveys for Monitoring Mule Deer and Black Bears

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Northern Region (1)

Years: 2012 - 2013

Species: Mule Deer and Black Bear

Type of Project: Methods Development

Purpose: To augment efforts of the State Wildlife Grant funded Ecoregion Biodiversity Monitoring Project to monitor mule deer and black bear occupancy and demography trends at the Deer Assessment Unit scale through the use of baited camera stations.

Budget: $52,000

Mule Deer Population Monitoring at the Deer Assessment Scale Using Remote Cameras

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Northern Region (1)

Years: 2012 - 2014

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Methods Development

Purpose: To evaluate the use of camera traps to collect population trend and composition data on mule deer in areas where other techniques may be comparatively ineffective, 

Budget: $70,000

Bighorn Sheep Assessment and Monitoring in the Peninsular Ranges

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - South Coast Region (5)

Years: 2008 - 2019

Species: Bighorn Sheep

Type of Project: Population Monitoring

Purpose: To (1) monitor population status, dynamics, and trends, (2) monitor population abundances to generate estimates of abundance of individual recovery regions as well as the entire population, (3) monitor distribution to track changes in number and distribution of ewe groups and determine if augmentation or reintroductions are necessary and where, (3) monitor recruitment to determine lamb production so results can be compared among recovery regions, years, and management strategies, (4) maintain and restore habitat connectivity, (5) reduce mortality rates, (6) research habitat use and selection and dispersal behavior, and (7) research disease and preventative measures.

Budget: $53,678

Central Region Mule Deer Hair-Loss Syndrome Studies

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Central Region (4)

Years: 2012 - 2016

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: To determine whether exotic lice impact mule deer populations, determine methods to lessen the impact of exotic lice on louse-infested populations, and to reduce the spread of exotic lice to non-infested populations.

Budget: $417,900

Elk Range Expansion into Plumas and Sierra Counties

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - North Central Region (2)

Years: 2008 - 2019

Species: Rocky Mountain Elk

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: To gain baseline data on the number of elk that are settling into Plumas and Sierra counties.

Budget: $22,360

Pronghorn Distribution, Movements, and Habitat Use in Northeastern California

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Northern Region (1)

Years: 2012 - 2018

Species: Pronghorn

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: To update information regarding pronghorn distribution within summer and winter ranges, location of migration corridors, migratory behavior, impediments to migration, and important seasonal habitat areas within occupied range in northeastern California. 

Budget: $1,002,764

Survey of Hunter Attitudes Towards Deer Management in California

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Northern Region (1)

Years: 2012 - 2013

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: To assess hunter attitudes towards current deer hunting opportunities offered by the Department and to explore their views of a variety of alternative strategies to managing deer.

Budget: $65,000

Migration, Seasonal Ranges, Health, and Survival of the East Tehama Deer Herd

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Northern Region (1)

Years: 2012 - 2016

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: To (1) identify migration routes and the location of seasonal habitats important to health and persistence, (2) collect information on physical condition and disease, and (3) monitor annual patterns of survival, causes of mortality, and factors that influence the survival of adult female mule deer.

Budget: $23,170

Mount Hough Wildlife Habitat Improvement Burn

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Inland Deserts Region (1)

Years: 2012 - 2014

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Habitat enhancement

Purpose: To revitalize mule deer and upland game bird summer and winter range habitats through prescribed fire.

Budget: $101,047

Determining the Status of Bighorn Sheep near Truckee

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - North Central Region (1)

Years: 2012 - 214

Species: Bighorn Sheep

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: To evaluate existing habitat and management conditions for the successful translocation and maintenance of an interstate population of bighorn sheep in the Truckee River Canyon on Nevada county. 

Budget: $16,895

Estimation of Abundance of the Pacific Deer Herd Using Fecal DNA

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - North Central Region (2)

Years: 2012 - 2015

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Population Monitoring and Methods Development

Purpose: To use non-invasive DNA techniques to obtain estimates of abundance and density and assess the feasibility of implementing DNA-based monitoring of the Pacific deer herd in El Dorado and Placer counties.

Budget: $136,480

Upper San Joaquin Watershed Deer Herd Delineation, Migratory Behavior, and Population Dynamic Telemetry Project

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Central Region (4)

Years: 2012 - 2015

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: To determine herd boundaries and link key areas and migratory routes on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Madera and Fresno counties.

Budget: $309,000

Rush Fire Habitat Restoration Project in Lassen County

Organization: Bureau of Land Management - Eagle Lake Field Office

Years: 2013 -2014

Species: Mule Deer and Pronghorn

Type of Project: Habitat Enhancement

Purpose: To stabilize and rehabilitate big game habitats and water sources important to big game species on lands burned by the 315,577 acre Rush Fire.

Budget: $322,660

Habitat Use, Home Range, and Denning of Black Bears in Lake Tahoe Basin

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - North Central Region (2)

Years: 2013 - 2014

Species: Black Bear

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: To estimate habitat use, home range, and denning of black bears in the Lake Tahoe Basin.

Budget: $109,335

Responses of Mule Deer to Experimental Manipulation of Water Sources in the Mojave Desert

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Inland Deserts Region (6)

Years: 2013 - 2019

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: To assess demographic and distributional responses of mule deer inhabiting the eastern Mojave Desert to the provision of water at locations where it had been, but is no longer, available.

Budget: $551,000

Understanding Distribution, Movement Patterns, and Seasonal Home Ranges of Bodie Hills Pronghorn

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Inland Deserts Region (6)

Years: 2013 - 2015

Species: Pronghorn

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: To delineate migration routes, identify physical and anthropogenic barriers, delineate seasonal ranges, and estimate annual survival and cause-specific mortality. 

Budget: $156,000

Anticoagulant Rodenticide Monitoring in Game Animals

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Wildlife Health Lab

Years: 2013 - 2014

Species: Mule Deer, Black Bear, Wild Pig

Type of Project: Health Monitoring

Purpose: To determine the amounts of anticoagulant rodenticide residues in the edible muscle tissues of mule deer, black bear, and wild pigs.

Budget: $60,750

Monitoring Desert Mule Deer using DNA-Based Capture-Recapture

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Inland Deserts Region (6)

Years: 2014 - 2018

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Population Monitoring

Purpose: To provide baseline population monitoring data of desert mule deer in Zone D12 by implementing a monitoring strategy to estimate abundance and composition.

Budget: $160,000

East Tehama Mule Deer Abundance Project

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Northern Region (1)

Years: 2015 - 2017

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Methods Development

Purpose: To evaluate the ability of an integrated application of random sampling, fecal DNA transects, and camera traps to estimate deer abundance across a large geographical area in deer zones C3, C4, and X4.

Budget: $295,000

Marin County Deer Abundance Project

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Wildlife Programs Branch

Years: 2015 - 2016

Species: Black-tailed Deer

Type of Project: Methods Development

Purpose: To evaluate the ability of an integrated application of random sampling, fecal DNA transects, and camera traps to estimate deer abundance across a large geographical area. 

Budget: $345,000

Numbers, Distribution, Behavior, and Disease Risks of Roosevelt Elk in Humboldt and Del Norte Counties

Organization: Humboldt State University and California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Northern Region (1)

Years: 2015 - 2020

Species: Elk

Type of Project: Population Monitoring and Methods Development

Purpose: To collect baseline data and develop more robust methods for monitoring numbers, distribution, behavior, and disease risks in Roosevelt elk.

Budget: $401,298

Concurrent Use of Telemetry, Traditional Surveys, and Fecal Surveys to Develop and Implement DNA-Based Methods of Population Monitoring of Tule Elk

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife -North Central Region (2)

Years: 2016 - 2019

Species: Tule Elk

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: To determine the efficacy of fecal DNA techniques compared to traditional helicopter, fixed-wing, and roadway based surveys as well as tracking movement, habitat use, important calving areas, and interactions between elk groups.

Budget: $481,967

Siskiyou Deer Project

Organization: University of California Santa Cruz

Years: 2016 - 2020

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: To determine factors that are influencing deer abundance on private and public lands within deer hunt zone X1 in Siskiyou county.

Budget: $1,979,675

Statewide Survey, Maintenance, and Reconstruction of Wildlife Water Sources

Organization: California Deer Association

Years: 2016 - 2017

Species: Multiple

Type of Project: Habitat Enhancement

Purpose: To survey, maintain, and repair wildlife water sources.

Budget: $150,000

Fecal DNA Genotyping Service

Organization: University California Davis

Years: 2016 - 2018

Species: Mule Deer, Elk, Black Bear

Type of Project: Population Monitoring

Purpose: Genotyping of fecal DNA used for estimating abundances of mule deer, elk, and black bear.

Budget: $500,000

Repair of Water Sources for Bighorn Sheep and Other Wildlife in the Mojave Desert

Organization: Society for the Conservation of Bighorn Sheep

Years: 2016 - 2017

Species: Bighorn Sheep

Type of Project: Habitat Enhancement

Purpose: To repair water sources for bighorn sheep and other wildlife species in the Mojave Desert.

Budget: $40,571

Technical Support for Monitoring of Bighorn Sheep, Mule Deer, Black Bear, and Pronghorn

Organization: Utah State University

Years: 2016 - 2019

Species: Bighorn Sheep, Mule Deer, Black Bear, and Pronghorn

Type of Project: Population Monitoring

Purpose: Technical support 

Budget: $302,602

Helicopter Capture Service - High Elevation 2016-2019

Organization: Leading Edge Aviation

Years: 2016 - 2019

Species: Bighorn Sheep

Purpose: Helicopter captures

Budget: $594,958

Helicopter Capture Service - Standard Elevation 2016-2019

Organization: Leading Edge Aviation

Years: 2016 - 2019

Species: Mule Deer, Elk, Pronghorn, Bighorn Sheep

Purpose: Helicopter Captures

Budget: $2,668,766

Buffalo Skedaddle Spring and Riparian Restoration

Organization: California Deer Association

Years: 2017

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Habitat Enhancement

Purpose: Mule deer habitat enhancement

Budget: $454,422

Rock Creek Meadow Restoration

Organization: California Deer Association

Years: 2017

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Habitat Enhancement

Purpose: Mule deer habitat enhancement

Budget: $31,200

Modoc-Warner Mountains Mule Deer Recovery Project

Organization: California Deer Association

Years: 2017

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Habitat Enhancement

Purpose: Mule deer habitat enhancement

Budget: $229,678

Jawbone Critical Winter Range Mule Deer Habitat Enhancement

Organization: Mule Deer Foundation

Years: 2017

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Habitat Enhancement

Purpose: Mule deer habitat enhancement

Budget: $369,760

Chemise Knob Habitat Improvement Project

Organization: Mendocino County Blacktail Association

Years: 2017

Species: Black-tailed Deer

Type of Project: Habitat Enhancement

Purpose: Black-tailed deer habitat enhancement

Budget: $115,000

Mountain Lion Capture Service 2017

Organization: United States Department of Agriculture - Animal Services

Years: 2017

Species: Mountain Lion

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: Technical assistance, handler, and dog team to capture and collar mountain lions.

Budget: $144,000

Disease Surveillance in Desert Bighorn Sheep Populations

Organization: Oregon State University

Years: 2017

Species: Bighorn Sheep

Type of Project: Disease Monitoring

Purpose: Disease surveillance in desert bighorn sheep populations

Budget: $30,583

Disease Monitoring in Desert Bighorn Sheep Populations

Organization: Wild Sheep Foundation

Years: 2017

Species: Bighorn Sheep

Type of Project: Disease Monitoring

Purpose: Disease monitoring in desert bighorn sheep populations

Budget: $43,000

Water Source Development for Desert Bighorn Sheep

Organization: Society for the Conservation of Bighorn Sheep

Years: 2017 - 2018

Species: Bighorn Sheep

Type of Project: Habitat Enhancement

Purpose: To provide water to bighorn sheep

Budget: $28,099

Vet Residency

Organization: California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Wildlife Health Lab

Years: 2017 - 2018

Species: Multiple

Type of Project: Health Monitoring

Purpose: Vet residency for Wildlife Health Lab

Budget: $57,958

Providing Water for Desert Bighorn Sheep and Other Wildlife in the Mojave Desert

Organization: Society for the Conservation of Bighorn Sheep

Years: 2017 - 2019

Species: Bighorn Sheep

Type of Project: Habitat Enhancement

Purpose: To provide water for bighorn sheep and other wildlife

Budget: $64,687

Technical Support for Genomics Processing

Organization: University of California Davis

Years: 2017 - 2019

Species: Multiple

Type of Project: Monitoring

Purpose: Technical support for genomics sample processing and sequencing.

Budget: $70,860

Development of Unmanned Aerial Survey Methods for Bighorn Sheep

Organization: Wild Sheep Foundation

Years: 2018

Species: Bighorn Sheep

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: To develop unmanned aerial survey methods for bighorn sheep.

Budget: $16,500

Helicopter Rental

Organization: Air Shasta

Years: 2018

Species: Multiple

Type of Project: Support

Purpose: Helicopter rental 

Budget: $70,152

Mountain Lion Capture Service 2018

Organization: United States Department of Agriculture - Animal Services

Years: 2018

Species: Mountain Lion

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: Technical assistance, handler, and dog team to capture and collar mountain lions.

Budget: $9,000

Scat Detection Dogs to Monitor Mountain Lions

Organization: University of Washington

Years: 2018

Species: Mountain Lion

Type of Project: Research

Purpose: Use of scat detection dogs to monitor mountain lions

Budget: $97,324

Genetic Analysis of Big Game Fecal DNA

Organization: University of California Davis

Years: 2018 - 2020

Species: Mule Deer, Elk, and Black Bear

Type of Project: Technical Support

Purpose: Genetic analysis of fecal DNA samples from big game species to support capture-recapture abundance estimates.

Budget: $1,000,000

Helicopter Survey Service

Organization: Air Shasta Rotor and Wing

Years: 2018 - 2019

Species: Mule Deer, Elk, Bighorn Sheep, Pronghorn

Type of Project: Technical Support

Purpose: Helicopter service for aerial surveys of big game

Budget: $3,500,000

Water Monitoring in Artificial Water Sources for Bighorn Sheep

Organization: Society for the Conservation of Bighorn Sheep

Years: 2019

Species: Bighorn Sheep

Type of Project: Habitat Enhancement

Purpose: To provide water for bighorn sheep

Budget: $28,099

Disease Monitoring in Desert Bighorn Sheep

Organization: Wild Sheep Foundation

Years: 2019

Species: Bighorn Sheep

Type of Project: Disease Monitoring

Purpose: To monitor disease in bighorn sheep populations

Budget: $79,546

Helicopter Capture Service - Standard Elevation 2019-2021

Organization: Leading Edge Aviation

Years: 2019 - 2021

Species: Mule Deer, Elk, Pronghorn, Bighorn Sheep

Purpose: Helicopter Captures

Budget: $2,668,766

Helicopter Capture Service - High Elevation 2019-2021

Organization: Leading Edge Aviation

Years: 2019 - 2021

Species: Bighorn Sheep

Purpose: Helicopter captures

Budget: $660,000

Habitat Restoration for Big Game - Conifer Removal and Meadow Enhancement

Organization: California Deer Association

Years: 2019 - 2021

Species: Mule Deer

Type of Project: Habitat Enhancement

Purpose: To enhance habitats for mule deer through conifer removal and meadow enhancement

Budget: $640,030