Eco-Web has been involved in completing aerial moose inventories across northeastern British Columbia for many years. Fort Nelson First Nation (FNFN) supported by BC government funding hired Eco-Web in 2020 to inventory all of the wildlife Management Units (MU) across FNFN’s traditional territory. This work was in support of FNFN’s State of Knowledge (SOK) for moose which includes objectives to track trends in moose abundance and density over time.
Many of these large remote MU’s had either never been inventoried, or were last inventoried in the 1980’s. This valuable data is being used to inform management decisions for moose, a vital part of FNFN’s traditional way of life and in support of FNFN’s Treaty Rights. All of the MU’s (7-48, 7-49, 7-50, 7-51, 7-52, 7-53, 7-55, 7-56) including those overlapping the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area were completed by 2025, with a second round started in 2026 to develop trend analysis of moose populations.
Eco-Web has provided technical design, support, and execution of the inventory work while training FNFN Guardians in moose inventory methods. A combination of Stratified Random Block survey methods and Distance Sampling was successfully employed to provide accurate population size, density and demographics for moose across the area.
