Learn how Idaho Fish and Game uses cameras and other tools to estimate the number of wolves on the landscape.
Idaho was the first state to use remote cameras for a statewide wolf population estimate with the first one produced in 2019.
To get the 2022 population estimate, Fish and Game crews deployed 533 cameras in July and August of 2022, which collected about 10 million photos. Biologists used artificial intelligence software to sift through those millions of photos and then applied mathematical modeling to produce a statewide estimate of the population.
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