Nevada consists of marginal to unsuitable habitat for wolves and no packs are known to exist within the state. However, isolated wolf sightings have been documented in Northeastern and Northwestern Nevada. Ranchers, landowners, hunters, and outdoors people have anecdotal eyewitness testimony and state and federal agencies have verified trail camera images of wolves within Nevada.
The Nevada Wolf Project will deploy trail cameras in Northwestern Nevada to document additional occurrences of wolves. Occurrence data will help inform agencies and the public of the distribution, movement patterns, and range of wolves in Nevada.
We have identified potentially suitable wolf habitat within dispersal range of known packs, overlapping with deer winter range. Trail cams has been deployed and additional cameras will be deployed as our supplies allow.
We hope to announce more details soon. We are currently seeking partners and donors. Items needed to jumpstart this project include:
Trail Cams (Thank you to those who have donated!)
Batteries
SD Cards
Gas Money!
Please reach out via the contact page if you'd like to participate.
Cameras continuing to detect non-target species.
Non-target species; Bobcat.
Non-target species: California Ground Squirrel.
Non-target species; Bobcat
Non-target species; Mule Deer, forked horn buck.
Deployment of initial set of cameras and starting to get photos of non-target species.
Non-target species; Coyote pack.
Cameras are deployed and we are beginning to get photos. Non-target species; Mule Deer.
Non-target species; Mule Deer.
Difficult to see, non-target species; Chukar.
Non-target species; Mule Deer. Fur is wet after rain/snow.
Non-target species; Mule Deer
Non-target Species; Striped Skunk
Construction, setup, and testing of trail cams and battery banks.
We have received a donation of trail cams and solar panels! Thank you so much! Designing a charge control circuit and battery bank.
Solar battery bank to power trail cam without AA batteries.
Programming camera settings.
Camera setup.
Example set placement.
Camera setup with solar
Testing camera settings.
Non-target species.