Selected Publications
Technical Reports
Red-sided Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) Relocation and Education Project: Final Report
Lisa Takats
January 2002
ISBN: 0-7785-1981-3 (Print)
ISBN: 0-7785-1982-1 (Online)
Alberta Amphibian Call Survey: A Pilot Year Final Report
Alberta Species at Risk Report No. 53
Lisa Takats & Chuck Priestley
April 2002
ISBN: 0-7785-2190-1 (Print)
ISBN: 0-7785-2192-3 (Online)
Long-toed Slamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum) Monitoring Study in Alberta: Summary Report 1998 - 2001
Mai-Linh Huynh, Lisa Takats & Lisa Wilkinson,
January 2002
ISBN: 0-7785-2002-1 (Print)
ISBN: 0-7785-2003-X (Online)
Protocols for Monitoring Long-toed Salamander (Ambystoma macrodatylum) Populations in Alberta
Troy Pretzlaw, Mai-Linh Huynh, Lisa Takats & Lisa Wilkinson,
January 2002
ISBN: 0-7785-1981-3 (Print)
ISBN: 0-7785-1982-1 (Online)
Guidelines for Nocturnal Owl Monitoring in Northern Alberta
D. Lisa Takats. Charles M. Francis, Geoffrey L. Holroyd, James R. Duncan, Kurt M. Mazur, Richard J. Cannings, Wayne Harris & Denver Holt
March 2001
ISBN: 0-9688736-0-X
Program Reports (Full report not publically distributed)
Edson FMA Owl Monitoring Program Report.
Chuck Priestley and Lisa Priestley
September 2009
This monitoring program was initiated to determine whether species diversity has been maintained over time. Conserving species diversity was identified as a Critical Element within Weyerhaeuser’s Sustainable Forest Management Plan (SFMP). An SFMP is one of the requirements of the Canadian Standards Association Sustainable Forest Management System. 2009 was the fourth season that owl monitoring occurred in the study area.
Edson FMA Songbird Monitoring Program Report.
Chuck Priestley and Lisa Priestley
November 2009
This monitoring program was initiated to determine whether species diversity has been maintained over time. Conserving species diversity was identified as a Critical Element within Weyerhaeuser’s Sustainable Forest Management Plan (SFMP). An SFMP is one of the requirements of the Canadian Standards Association Sustainable Forest Management System. 2009 was the fourth season that songbird and wetland bird community monitoring occurred in the study area.
Grande Prairie FMA Owl Monitoring Program Report.
Chuck Priestley and Lisa Priestley
September 2007
This monitoring program was initiated to determine whether species diversity has been maintained over time. Conserving species diversity was identified as a Critical Element within Weyerhaeuser’s Sustainable Forest Management Plan (SFMP). An SFMP is one of the requirements of the Canadian Standards Association Sustainable Forest Management System. 2007 was the first season that owl monitoring occurred in the study area.
Drayton Valley FMA Songbird Monitoring Program Report.
Lisa Priestley and Chuck Priestley
September 2007
This monitoring program was initiated to determine whether species diversity has been maintained over time. Conserving species diversity was identified as a Critical Element within Weyerhaeuser’s Sustainable Forest Management Plan (SFMP). An SFMP is one of the requirements of the Canadian Standards Association Sustainable Forest Management System. 2007 was the third season that songbird and wetland bird community monitoring occurred in the study area.
Bats in Alberta – conservation challenges and monitoring efforts.
Nature Alberta 38(4): 14-17.
Chuck Priestley, Bryn Spence, Margo Pybus & Dave Hobson
December 2008
A Little Brown Bat hibernaculum survey was conducted in Wapiabi Cave, near Nordegg, Alberta during the winter of 2008. Results of this survey was reported and current bat conservation concerns were discussed including white-nose syndrome, a fungal pathogen first detected in bat populations near New York in 2006.
Results of a Northern Saw-whet Owl Migration Monitoring Pilot Study in Central Alberta, Canada. Western Birds 36(4):303-309.
Chuck Priestley and Lisa Priestley
December 2005
Results of five years of autumn Northern Saw-whet Owl monitoring were summarized. Capture rates, seasonal distribution in capture abundance, sex ratios of owls and mark-recapture data were reported.