Wildlife

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    • Locations: Rocky Mountain National Park
    • Offices: Continental Divide Research Learning Center
    Moraine Park beaver dam

    Learn more about the impacts of fire on beaver ponds and watershed resilience.

    • Locations: Rocky Mountain National Park
    • Offices: Continental Divide Research Learning Center
    Thermal infrared images that show a white sillouette of a bull moose and a cow moose.

    Explore ways RMNP staff are studying moose and their impacts in Rocky Mountain National Park.

    • Locations: Rocky Mountain National Park
    • Offices: Continental Divide Research Learning Center
    Game camera of a deer looking into camera with burned site in the background.

    Learn more about fire effects on wildlife.

    • Locations: Rocky Mountain National Park
    • Offices: Continental Divide Research Learning Center
    A beaver foraging on the bank of a river.

    Where do beaver live in Rocky Mountain National Park? Researchers from Colorado State University conduct occupancy surveys to help answer this question.

  • Rocky Mountain National Park

    Black Bear Population and Stability

    • Locations: Rocky Mountain National Park
    Close-up of a black bear

    Scientists work to discover population size and stability of black bears in Rocky Mountain National Park.

  • Rocky Mountain National Park

    Elk and Moose Exclusion Fence

    • Locations: Rocky Mountain National Park
    Photo from a motion camera of a deer inside the fence.

    Can fences be designed that will exclude elk and moose from willow rehabilitation areas but allow passage of smaller mammals?

  • Rocky Mountain National Park

    Population Genetics of Bighorn Sheep

    • Locations: Rocky Mountain National Park
    A ram stands on a rock

    Is the Mummy Range bighorn sheep population subject to negative effects from inbreeding after a recent pneumonia-induced population die-off ?

  • Rocky Mountain National Park

    Moose Summer Diet

    • Locations: Rocky Mountain National Park
    Moose browsing on woody plant

    What do moose eat during the summer in the park?

  • Rocky Mountain National Park

    Bighorn Sheep Population

    • Locations: Rocky Mountain National Park
    Bighorn ram

    What is the abundance and distribution of bighorn sheep in Rocky Mountain National Park? What are the survival rates of bighorn lambs?

    • Locations: Rocky Mountain National Park
    • Offices: Continental Divide Research Learning Center
    A small bat with large ears clings to the side of a rock.

    Discover ongoing bat research in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Last updated: February 7, 2024