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Not only does the Friends of Elk Island Society finance conservation projects undertaken by Elk Island National Park but it also supports and helps finance graduate research undertaken by students from the University of Alberta and elsewhere.
Funding application forms (in PDF format) may be downloaded here.
Applications for Research Grants are first sent to Elk Island National Park's Science Advisory Committee, here they are reviewed against the Park's Ecosystem Conservation Plan. Those applications which are consistent with the Park's policy are forwarded to the FEIS Conservation Research and Education committee (CRE) for consideration.
The Friends of Elk Island Society supported four conservation/research projects in 2006. These included two research projects by graduate students from the University of Alberta and two projects conducted by park wardens to monitor and manage wildlife populations. These projects are:
- The role of nutrients on the larval ecology of amphibians (Arthur Whiting, Ph.D. student)
- Habitat use of the Western Toad (Connie Browne, Ph.D. student)
- Trumpeter Swan monitoring (Rob Kaye, park warden)
- Sakha Wood Bison transfer (Steve Otway and Wes Olson, park wardens)
