February 1, 2024
Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) are specially adapted to walk on top of snow with their big, splaying, fur-covered feet that function as snowshoes. The advantage of these specialized feet in catching their preferred prey, the snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus), is debatable due to the snowshoe hare’s own similar adaptation for floating on the snow.
January 1, 2024
Mountain goats are “white walkers” even when winter isn’t coming. They keep their white coats all year round. At Fiera Biological we study a population of mountain goats in west central Alberta and for part of that study, we are using remote cameras to better understand how predators (and their typical “not mountain goats” prey) use the habitat surrounding the cliff habitat that the goats are using.
November 14, 2022
If you have utilized any type of digital mapping tool, you may have heard the technical term ‘LiDAR’,…
April 26, 2022
Spring has sprung here at Fiera, and so, like everyone, our thoughts turn to bogs. What are they? How do they work?
March 3, 2022
When most people think of wildlife habitat, what often comes to mind are the particular resource requirements that…
February 24, 2022
A lot of our daily work at Fiera relies on a single, invaluable type of spatial data, the land cover classification. A land cover classification is essentially a map based on satellite imagery that shows all of the different land cover types across an area.
February 11, 2022
Thinking about participating in a Track & Sign Evaluation? Then check out these frequently asked questions. If you…
February 11 is International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a day where we highlight the need…
February 4, 2022
Fiera Biological recently hosted one of North America’s top wildlife trackers, David Moskowitz, to run a two-day field-based…
February 2, 2022
Wetlands perform a wide array of important functions, some highly beneficial from an ecological standpoint, as well as…