Wild Pig Management at the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve (Population Study and Cost Analysis), The Bren School, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020-2021

This dataset was created for the Wild Pig Management at the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve, a group project by Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The project includes a population study of wild pigs (Sus scrofa) and a cost analysis of three management scenarios. For the wild pig population study, this dataset contains pig count data created by tagging camera trap photos between October 2013 to August 2015 (WildPigPopulation_TimelapseData.csv), estimated abundance data by camera trap stations (WildPigPopulation_AbundanceByStation.csv), and spatial files of their interpolated distribution in the Preserve. In the abundance dataset, April Check refers to the camera trap photos taken between 2013-10-23 and 2014-04-22 while September Check refers to the time period of 2014-04-24 to 2014-09-25. For cost analysis, this dataset provides cost and pig removal data gathered from seven case studies (CostAnalysis_CaseStudies.csv), spatial files of four fencing areas (CostAnalysis_FencingAreas.zip), and the costs of six fencing scenarios for Dangermond Preserve (CostAnalysis_DangermondFencingCost.csv). Raw data used to generate the dataset were provided by The Nature Conservancy at Dangermond Preserve. For a more detailed methodology, please refer to Wild Pig Management at the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve (2020 - 2021, Report) or contact Shuhan Song to obtain access to our GitHub repository.