PR (Wolf 2020): 045 - Mobile Conservation Zone Generation Spatial Tool.

The Mobile Conservation Zone (MCZ) was implemented as a strategy to ensure the conservation of the Bathurst caribou herd. The MCZ is a dynamic wildlife management unit that represents a ‘no harvest zone’ around the herd’s current location. The MCZ boundary is updated approximately every four days to account for both daily and seasonal shifts in landscape use by the caribou. The objective of this project was to develop an ArcMap Add-In that utilizes telemetry data to generate MCZ boundaries for the Bathurst herd for a user-specified time period (e.g., every four days).