Objectives:

The objective of the high school monitoring project is to foster awareness and scientific interest in youth by allowing students, their friends, and family to contribute to local wildlife research.

Bozeman High School’s "wildlife management class" will help the Craighead Environmental Research Institute monitor wildlife-vehicle collisions along Interstate 90 in the Bozeman Pass area. American Wildlands organized the collaboration and will be providing support to the class through in-class visits and materials about wildlife-vehicle collisions.

By participating in this project students will have the opportunity to work alongside distinguished wildlife biologist Dr. Lance Craighead, while learning research methods for data collection, once or twice during the spring school term.

Students will have access to the data they help collect and other previously collected data to use for a class research project. Portions of data collected by CERI (Craighead Environmental Research Institute) will be used by student projects to experiment with data summarizing and evaluating how to answer questions such as:

a. Are there seasonal differences in wildlife-vehicle collisions?

b. Which animals are being hit most often?

c. Are their particular places where animals are hit more often?