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Alaska Wildlife Alliance Receives 2022 Best of Anchorage Award!
Alaska Wildlife Alliance Receives 2022 Best of Anchorage Award
Press Release: Anchorage Award Program Honors the Achievement
ANCHORAGE December 9, 2022 -- Alaska Wildlife Alliance has been selected for the 2022 Best of Anchorage Award in the Community Organizations category by the Anchorage Award Program.
Each year, the Anchorage Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Anchorage area a great place to live, work and play.
Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose one winner in each category. The 2022 Anchorage Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Anchorage Award Program and data provided by third parties.
About Anchorage Award Program
The Anchorage Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Anchorage area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.
The Anchorage Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to recognize the small business community's contributions to the U.S. economy.
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Publication: Integrating Distance Sampling and Minimum Count Data
Featured in the Journal of Wildlife Management
Letter to the Editor
Authored by:
Joshua H Schmidt, U.S. National Park Service, Central Alaska Network, 4175 Geist Road, Fairbanks, AK 99709, USA
Joel H Reynolds, U.S. National Park Service, Climate Change Response Program, 1201 Oakridge Drive, Suite 200, Fort Collins, CO 80525, USA
Kevin S White, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Wildlife Conservation, P.O. Box 110024, Juneau, AK 99811, USA
Dylan T Schertz, U.S. National Park Service, Arctic Network, 4175 Geist Road, Fairbanks, AK 99709, USA
John M Morton, Alaska Wildlife Alliance, P.O. Box 202022, Anchorage, AK 99520, USA
H. Sharon Kim, U.S. National Park Service, Kenai Fjords National Park, P.O. Box 1727, Seward, AK 99664 USA
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Excerpt: Becker and Herreman (2021) critique the approach of Schmidt et al. (2019), which integrates local minimum counts with landscape‐scale conventional distance sampling (CDS) surveys. They list concerns with model structure, fundamental assumptions, sampling approach, and the application to mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus) on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, USA. After careful review, these concerns appear to be largely due to misunderstandings of the intent of the original manuscript and the details of the integrated approach as presented, in addition to a perhaps common confusion over the relationship between the assumption of perfect detection on the transect line (i.e., the g(0)=1 assumption) and estimator bias in CDS applications. We address these points in detail so that practitioners can fully weigh the potential benefits of integrated approaches as illustrated by Schmidt et al. (2019) and better understand the role of estimator bias in CDS applications. Given the numerous challenges and tradeoffs in monitoring and managing wildlife populations, particularly in remote areas, we continue to advocate for the development of reliable survey alternatives that are logistically feasible, cost effective, and relatively unbiased. We maintain that the approach presented by Schmidt et al. (2019) represents an effective tool for addressing management‐relevant monitoring objectives and is primarily limited by the spatial and temporal extent of input data—an issue common to any estimator.
