UC Rangelands

📷🐾 Wildlife monitoring equipment is up and running!

As part of a new grazing experiment, we’ve installed drift fences and camera traps to help us learn more about the wildlife that uses the area before grazing begins.

Drift fences gently guide animals along a fence line, and then the camera traps will capture photos as they pass by. Together, these tools allow us to document wildlife activity with minimal disturbance.

These surveys will help establish baseline information on wildlife use of the site, giving us a better understanding of existing conditions before we begin testing adaptive grazing strategies. Over time, we’ll compare these observations with future monitoring data to better understand how grazing management may influence wildlife and their habitat.

Now we wait to see who shows up on camera! 🐿️🐸🦎📸

California livestock producers — your feedback can help guide future support for working lands and livestock operations across the state.

UC Berkeley and UC Cooperative Extension are seeking input on the future of wolf-livestock compensation programs in California, and they want to hear directly from producers and other interested parties who live in California.

Survey responses will be:
✔️ Anonymous
✔️ Securely stored through UC
✔️ Shared only as combined group results
✔️ About 20 minutes to complete

📅 Survey closes June 11

Take the survey on CDFW’s wolf-livestock compensation program here: https://berkeley.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8qemY1a3p1rv5BQ