Long-Term Pika Monitoring
Front Range Resources
for Trained Pika Patrollers
Front Range Resources
2020 Updates and Waivers
All participating volunteers must sign this form and mail/email it to FRPP!
All trained FRPP volunteers who wish to survey in 2020 must sign this form and mail/email it to FRPP!
All trained FRPP volunteers who are minors and wish to survey in 2020 must sign this form and mail/email it to FRPP!
In 2010, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service declined to list the American pika as threatened or endangered, citing uncertainty about whether the species was likely to be vulnerable to climate change across its entire range. Spurred
on by this, Rocky Mountain Wild and Denver Zoo created the Colorado Pika Project to collect the long-term, large-scale data needed for conservation and management of pika and their alpine ecosystems under future climate change scenarios.
Since then, hundreds of volunteer community scientists have surveyed for pika across the Front Range. While the Front Range is just one of the four research projects in the Front Range Pika Project, it is by far the oldest and most
popular.
To learn about how you can join the Pika Patrol in the Front Range, go here:
Data Collection
Site Sign-Up and Tracking
Sign up and record your visit to a Front Range site in 2020
Compare the different monitoring sites to find one that suits you
Learn all the details about each high priority pika site
Learn all the details about each lower priority pika site
Navigation
Downloadable files showing the locations and routes for WRNF sites through Gaia GPS
Learn how to set up and use Gaia GPS for pika monitoring
If you would like to borrow an FRPP GPS unit for pika monitoring, you can use this manual to learn about it in detail
If you would like to borrow an FRPP GPS unit for pika monitoring, you can use this manual to learn the key points of how to use it