The Land Trust initiated a major effort to track the health of wildlife populations within its preserve network.
What Is The Wildlife Picture Index (WPI) Project?
The Land Trust has deployed a grid of motion-activated wildlife cameras across nearly 5,000 acres in northern Napa County, using the internationally recognized Wildlife Picture Index (WPI) protocol.
Installed one kilometer apart, these cameras capture bursts of images every five seconds when triggered, documenting wildlife as they move through protected habitats.
This project provides valuable data to inform preserve management and contributes to broader, landscape-scale conservation across the region.
Photos from the Land Trust’s first ever Wildlife Picture Index Project are starting to come in, offering seldom-seen views of wildlife in the wild of Napa County.
Last year, staff and volunteers deployed remote cameras to monitor wildlife health on our protected land. To read more about the project and see the full gallery of photos we have so far, visit our Wildlife Picture Index Project page.
The Napa Register ran an article on the project as well at http://bit.ly/2nBcgaI.
