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Commissioners propose Landsat habitat analysis and review beaver relocation protections
Summary
Committee members asked staff to scope a 'blue sheet' for high‑resolution historic habitat mapping (Landsat/eDNA) to assess landscape change and discussed whether beaver relocation sites should be identified for protection or recovery planning.
During the Feb. 12 Wildlife Committee meeting commissioners discussed potential future work on statewide habitat change analysis and beaver relocation/recovery.
Commissioner Woody Myers proposed using high‑resolution Landsat and related datasets to chronicle landscape change and inform questions about local declines in species such as whitetail deer. "If we had a picture of how the state's landscape has changed over time, it might help us…
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