Location: Fort Flagler State Park - Hospital
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/982215622367
Join researchers from the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and Panthera who will share information about the highly collaborative Olympic Cougar Project, an Olympic Peninsula-wide project aimed at understanding the role that cougars play in our local ecosystems and how they are impacted by decreasing habitat connectivity and increasing human populations. We will provide information about basic cougar ecology, preliminary research findings, and how to coexist with this elusive carnivore. Joining the research team will be a conflict specialist with WDFW who will impart strategies on protecting livestock in cougar country.
Kim Sager is the wildlife Program Manager for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and co-leader of the Olympic Cougar Project. She has been studying wildlife on the Olympic Peninsula for over 25 years, studying everything from endangered seabirds to black bears, with a special recent focus on documenting wildlife response to the removal of the Elwha dams while also studying cougars across the north Olympic Peninsula.
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