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Rogues in the News
SEPTEMBER 2024
Researchers - and detection dogs - scour the southern Oregon coast to track the elusive, endangered marten
"With each scat, we get its weight worth in gold of information”
—Katie Moriarty, NCASI Senior Research Scientist, Western Forest Wildlife Ecologist, Yachats News
DECEMBER 2020
Scat-Sniffing Dogs Help with Mountain Lion Survey in Anza-Borrego and Across State
"Dogs are a critical aspect of this comprehensive mountain lion study. Without them, we would lose the ability to pursue less invasive approaches to study population size and status. We are very excited to be partnering with the Rogue Detection Teams”.
—Justin Dellinger, CDFW Senior Environmental Biologist, Anza-Borrego Foundation Newsletter, January 2020
JUNE 2020
Fisher Conservation in the Sierra Nevada
“These high-energy dogs, rescued from shelters where they ended up after destroying one couch too many, can scan large areas of the forest quickly and can find evidence of a fishers’ presence almost 100% of the time.”
—Craig Thompson, Landscape Wildlife Ecologist, Conservation Biology Institute
November 2020
Trapped Between Pavement and the Pacific
“[Bounder] Jennifer Hartman logs a marten scat. Later, [researcher] Moriarty and her colleagues will study the genetics of the scat to understand how many martens are in the area and what they’re eating.”
Hakai Magazine
March 2020
A nose for searching: Scientists use dog to find bats
“The main issue we faced locating bat hibernacula before [detection dog] Jack was simply trying to figure out which outcrops bats were using and, even more complicated, which holes at those outcrops they were using”
—Tory Rhoads, Alaska Department of Fish and Game; JUNEAU EMPIRE
Check out some great articles that mention our Rogues
Northern California Public Media:
Trail Camera Footage Reveals An Elusive Weasel-like Creature Roaming North In Yosemite
Huffpost, Science:
Rare Sighting In Yosemite: Trail Camera Captures Adorable And Elusive Fisher
Yosemite National Park & Yosemite Conservancy:
United States Geological Survey:
New USGS Analysis of Wind Turbine Upgrades Shows No Impact on Wildlife Mortality
High Country News:
Good Fruit Grower:
Vashon Center for the Arts:
“Counting Cougars at Opposite Ends of the World” with Mark Elbroch
Before we went Rogue, Here’s what we were up to:
World Wildlife Fund: Cambodians trained to handle dogs in Mondulkiri’s forests
Smithsonian: Meet the Dogs Sniffing Out Whale Poop for Science
The Student Conservation Association: Interview with Jennifer Hartman
Animal Jobs Digest: A Career as a Conservation Canine Handler: Part 2, Do You Have What it Takes?
Seattle Pi: Hound has a nose for south end of a northbound whale
We even contributed to the following:
…coming soon 🐾