The reintroduction of gray wolves (Canis lupus) into Idaho has been successful. As wolves are
reaching the threshold of a recovered population, new monitoring techniques are needed.
Radio telemetry, the current monitoring method, is very effective, but logistically challenging
and costly as the wolf population expands. Noninvasive genetic sampling is one of the most
hopeful monitoring alternatives to radio telemetry. For field efficiency, resource selection maps are used to pinpoint areas of high probability rendezvous sites. Resource selection maps are developed using logistic regression models that are derived from landscape variables based on presence and absence wolf data. ArcMap is a very useful tool for deriving the variables to
develop the regression model.