@ecbolas

PhD Candidate in wildlife ecology @UCDavis she/her

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Joined January 2018
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CDFW is proud to release the Black Bear Conservation and Management Plan for California, which incorporates the latest scientific tools and methods to conserve, manage and monitor black bear populations and reflects input from more than 5,000 individuals and groups.

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Weasels are hard to detect, so researchers don’t know much about how their populations are doing. Researchers recently found that red meat is a good bait to lure the small mammals to camera traps.  wildlife.org/wsb-tracking-do…

WSB: Tracking down North Carolina weasels - The Wildlife Society

Weasels are difficult to catch in images, but bait may do the trick

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Michel Laforge@MamlSpatialEcol14 Apr 2025
I'm looking to hire a graduate student to examine plasticity and individual differences in movement and habitat selection of caribou to disturbance. Please see the attached ad and share!
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This is unconscionable.
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Continuing to share these stories. Anyone calling these people “parasites” or cheering on these layoffs should be ashamed. This isn’t eliminating waste. It’s targeting people who get paid very little yet who are some of our most dedicated public servants protecting our National Parks and other public lands. And these cuts are putting those same public lands at risk.
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These stories are heartbreaking. And also make me furious. Putting people and our wild heritage at risk.
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🚨PhD Alert🚨 The Cherry Lab at Texas A&M-Kingsville is seeking a PhD student to study mammal ecology in South Texas! 🔍 Camera traps, GPS collars, & long-term data 🌿 Applied research with conservation impact 📅 Apply by April 1 📷 Details below ⬇️ #WildlifeEcology #PhDposition
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Thank you @CaltransDist7 for some amazing video showing the installation of waterproofing that is underway for the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing before adding soil on top.
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.@OregonState researchers studied this tube sock-like skunk. It lives throughout the western United States but you'll probably never see it in the wild: beav.es/GkH
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New paper out: "Shaping scientists: How faculty values influence graduate student recruitment and diversity, equity, and inclusion" Lots to unpack about what faculty prioritize when hiring, and suggestions on how to make grad recruitment more inclusive. nam10.safelinks.protection.o…
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Adam ™ Ford@adamTford8 Oct 2024
📢New full time **wildlife** job opportunity available at the #WiRELab, based at UBC Okanagan 🇨🇦! Please share: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/e…
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Massimo
@Rainmaker19738 Sep 2024
Utah’s Department of Transportation completed this wildlife overpass in 2018. This video from the state’s Division of Wildlife Resources shows dozens of animals using it to cross safely above six lanes of traffic, showing its actual effectiveness.
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New research out on spotted #skunk. Can’t wait to take a look. Love to see new insights into the lives of small carnivores! Congrats Marie Tosa, @DamonLesmeister, and @taaltree doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4981

Western spotted skunk spatial ecology in the temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest

A major threat to small mammalian carnivore populations is human-induced land use change, but conservation and management are inhibited by limited knowledge about their ecology and natural history....

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🐆 🐆 Ph.D. announcement is here! Come join our fun & talented team. Deadline for full consideration is Sep 29. Full position posting: shorturl.at/MJVUY Please share widely! 🐆 🐆
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Super excited to announce the final chapter of my dissertation is out in @SciReports! We used iSSF’s to show that Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep move up and downhill during spring #migration to avoid heat stress and storms. #openaccess: nature.com/articles/s41598-0…

Pursuit and escape drive fine-scale movement variation during migration in a temperate alpine...

Scientific Reports - Pursuit and escape drive fine-scale movement variation during migration in a temperate alpine ungulate

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Chronic wasting disease affects the brains of infected ungulates. Researchers wanted to see whether they could trace differences in behavior and movement patterns of deer based on GPS tracking of infected animals. hubs.li/Q02JBZ8K0

CWD affects movement, behavior of deer

Researchers are tracking the movement and behavior of deer infected with chronic wasting disease to try to predict outbreaks. “Our results suggest that CWD-infected deer may be shedding prions near...

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Another great #PhD opportunity for #HumanDimensions & urban carnivore ecology. Look here: docs.google.com/document/d/1…

Research Assistantship (PhD student): Human-Wildlife Interactions

Research Assistantship (incoming PhD student): Human-Wildlife Interactions Arizona State University, starting August 2025 Call for a Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) for an incoming PhD student...

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A few undergrads joined me for a day of fieldwork @UCBORR earlier this spring and one of them wrote this really nice piece about our day and some of my research. I LOVE how the article came out, one of my favorites! Check it out here: ucb.ucnrs.org/quadrat-issue1… 🐝
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Happy and proud to share that the last paper from my dissertation, “White-tailed deer population dynamics in a multi-predator landscape shaped by humans,” is published in @ESAApplications 🦌🐺🌲👩‍🌾 Reach out if you’d like a copy, and follow along for a 🧵 doi.org/10.1002/eap.3003

White‐tailed deer population dynamics in a multipredator landscape shaped by humans

Large terrestrial mammals increasingly rely on human-modified landscapes as anthropogenic footprints expand. Land management activities such as timber harvest, agriculture, and roads can influence...

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🚨New paper alert!🚨 Led by the fantastic Jenell de la Peña, we described an interaction between a plains spotted #skunk and #raccoon, courtesy of data collected by @TheKDWP. Check out the battle of 🦨 vs 🦝! eaglehill.us/prnaonline/acce…
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