Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: South Dakota
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

South Dakota Project


Structured Decision Support for Bald Eagle Monitoring in Alaska

June 2016 - May 2019


Personnel

Participating Agencies

  • National Park Service

The project used expert opinion regarding core values, objectives, and priorities from NPS biologists and natural resource chief using email surveys designed to foster consensus via a Delphi Process. Through this process, we will obtain ranked objectives for bald eagle monitoring, and several scenarios by which to achieve them. The scenarios were evaluated and ranked upon their ability to 1) achieve the monitoring objectives, and 2) cost of implementation. We then used an optimizing routine that incorporates scenario rankings and cost to arrive at a solution for monitoring that achieves our most important objectives at the lowest cost.

Presentations Presentation Date
Kolstrom, R., Gigliotti, L. M., and Wilson, T. 2018. Developing a standardized bald eagle monitoring program for Southwest Alaska National Parks. 78th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference. January 31. Milwaukee, WI. January 2018
Kolstrom, R., Wilson, T. L., and Gigliotti, L.M. 2018. Developing a standardized bald eagle monitoring program for Southwest Alaska National Parks. Alaska Chapter of the Wildlife Society Meeting. March 28. Anchorage, AK. March 2018