In the News

Canmore at a Crossroads: Proposal to Double Alberta Town’s Population Worries Residents – The Narwhal – April 24, 2021.

New Study Shows Wildlife Struggle to Navigate Busy Bow Valley – Rocky Mountain Outlook – March 11, 2021

Idaho Digs into the Predator Pit – Bugle Magazine – Jan-Feb 2020

Low Survival Rate for Banff Wolves Due to Hunting and Trapping Outside Park Boundaries – Rocky Mountain Outlook – Oct. 23, 2020.

Fading Migrations: Historic elk migrations have dwindled sharply over the last decades. What does it mean for the future of wild elk? – Bugle Magazine – July-August 2019.

Still the Undisputed Champs of Mammalian Migrations – The New York Times – Nov. 13, 2019

Animals Are Losing Their Vagility, or Ability to Roam Freely – The New York Times – Feb. 19, 2018 Note: Our Tucker et al. paper, featuring elk data from Ya Ha Tinda, was also covered in more than 25 other major global news outlets including Globe and Mail, Science, Scientific American, Atlantic, National Post, National Observer, and Rocky Mountain Outlook.

Camera Traps Shed New Light on Wildlife Biology – Missoulian – Oct. 15, 2017  

Predators & Prey - SciShow Talk Show - December 2018

First bulls collared for elk study - in goHunt Feb. 2018

First Big Bulls Collared in North America's Longest Running Elk Study - First for Wildlife, Jan. 26, 2018

RMEF Honors Wildlife Researcher - Elk Network - May 2017

The Hairy Truth: Investigating predator-prey interactions - Alberta Outdoorsman - January 2017

UM Professor's Long-Term Elk Study Lands Major Grant - Missoulian - April 11, 2016

UM Professor Continue's World's Longest-Running Elk Study - Montanan Magazine, University of Montana - 2016

UM Professor Earns New Funding to Continue World’s Longest-Running Elk Study - K96 - March 30, 2016

Banff National park has room for more than 1,000 bison, says study (Calgary Herald); Bison on Track to Return to Banff National Park (The Huffington Post Alberta); Bison could handle 1,300 bison, says report (Calgary Sun); Banff pourrait accueillir plus de 1000 bisons (ICI Radio-Canada); Banff bison capacity 'much bigger than we thought,' new report suggests (CBCNews) Habitat model shows capacity for up to 1,000 bison in Banff, (Rocky Mountain Outlook March 23, 2016)

Elk Population on Ya Ha Tinda Remains in Low Numbers - The Crag and Canyon - Aug. 27, 2015

Ya Ha Tinda Elk Herd: Persistence or Doom? (pdf) - Alberta Outdoorsman - 2013

Ya Ha Tinda Elk on the Decline - Mountain View Gazette - March 27, 2012

Linking Wildlife Populations With Ecosystem Change: State-of-the-Art Satellite Ecology for National Park Science - Park Science - Spring 2009

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June 2021: Four-year Final Report released!

May 2021: New paper in Science on the need for a Global Initiative on Ungulate Migration in partnership with the UN Convention on Migratory Species (CMS)

October 2019: Martin, H., Hebblewhite, M., Merrill, E.H. 2019 Ideal free migration?? testing for density-dependent migration in partially migratory elk. Presentation. Wildlife Society conference & American Fisheries joint conference, Reno, Nevada, October 2019.

July 2019: Mateen Hessami’s undergraduate thesis (PDF) is published!