Lucretia E. E. Olson, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Thomas W. Glass, Jeffery P. Copeland, Lucretia E. E. Olson, John S. Waller, John R. Squires. 2025. Wolverines use spatial memory to plan efficient routes through rugged terrain
• Jacob S. Ivan, Karen E. Hodges, Joseph D. Holbrook, Ron A. Moen, Lucretia E. E. Olson, John R. Squires, Jennifer H. Vashon. 2024. Reply to Thornton and Murray: Models for Canada lynx conservation planning require nuance
• John R. Squires, Lucretia E. E. Olson, Jacob S. Ivan, Peter M. McDonald, Joseph D. Holbrook. 2024. Anthropogenically protected but naturally disturbed: A specialist carnivore at its southern range periphery
• Lucretia E. E. Olson, Joel D. Sauder, Patrick A. Fekety, Jessie Golding, Carly W. Lewis, Rema B. Sadak, Michael K. Schwartz. 2024. Fishers (Pekania pennanti) are forest structure specialists when resting and generalists when moving: behavior influences resource selection in a northern Rocky Mountain fisher population
• Helen E. Chmura, Lucretia E. E. Olson, Remi Murdoch, Alexandra Fraik, Scott Jackson, Kevin S. McKelvey, Rex Koenig, Kristine L. Pilgrim, Nicholas DeCesare, Michael K. Schwartz. 2024. Climate change differentially alters distribution of two marten species in a hybrid zone
• John R. Squires, Jacob S. Ivan, Kelsey E. Paolini, Lucretia E. E. Olson, Gavin M. Jones, Joseph D. Holbrook. 2023. Keystone structures maintain forest function for Canada lynx after large-scale spruce beetle outbreak
• Lucretia E. E. Olson, Justin S. Crotteau, John R. Squires. 2023. Compounding effects of wildfire and forest management on Canada lynx: The importance of management mosaics
• Lucretia E. E. Olson, Justin S. Crotteau, Shelagh Fox, Gary Hanvey, Joseph D. Holbrook, Scott Jackson, John R. Squires. 2023. Effects of compound disturbance on Canada lynx and snowshoe hare: Wildfire and forest management influence timing and intensity of use
• Andrea Watts, John R. Squires, Joseph Holbrook, Jake Ivan, Lucretia E. E. Olson, Peter McDonald, Kirby Self. 2021. Forest understories became the story: Lynx, bark beetle mortality, and salvage logging
• Lucretia E. E. Olson, Nichole Bjornlie, Gary Hanvey, Joseph D. Holbrook, Jacob S. Ivan, Scott Jackson, Brian Kertson, Travis King, Michael Lucid, Dennis Murray, Robert Naney, John Rohrer, Arthur Scully, Daniel Thornton, Zachary Walker, John R. Squires. 2021. Improved prediction of Canada lynx distribution through regional model transferability and data efficiency
• John R. Squires, Lucretia E. E. Olson, Zachary P. Wallace, Robert J. Oakleaf, Patricia L. Kennedy. 2020. Resource selection of apex raptors: Implications for siting energy development in sagebrush and prairie ecosystems
• John R. Squires, Joseph D. Holbrook, Lucretia E. E. Olson, Jacob S. Ivan, Randal W. Ghormley, Rick L. Lawrence. 2020. A specialized forest carnivore navigates landscape-level disturbance: Canada lynx in spruce-beetle impacted forests
• John R. Squires, Lucretia E. E. Olson, Elizabeth K. Roberts, Jacob S. Ivan, Mark Hebblewhite. 2019. Winter recreation and Canada lynx: Reducing conflict through niche partitioning
• Sue Miller, Lucretia E. E. Olson, John R. Squires, Elizabeth Roberts, Jake Ivan. 2019. Winter sports and wildlife: Can Canada lynx and winter recreation share the same slope?
• Joseph D. Holbrook, John R. Squires, Barry Bollenbacher, Russ Graham, Lucretia E. E. Olson, Gary Hanvey, Scott Jackson, Rick L. Lawrence, Shannon L. Savage. 2019. Management of forests and forest carnivores: Relating landscape mosaics to habitat quality of Canada lynx at their range periphery
• Joseph D. Holbrook, Lucretia E. E. Olson, Nicholas J. DeCesare, Mark Hebblewhite, John R. Squires, Robin Steenweg. 2019. Functional responses in habitat selection: Clarifying hypotheses and interpretations
• Tracey N. Johnson, Kristen Nasman, Zachary P. Wallace, Lucretia E. E. Olson, John R. Squires, Ryan M. Nielson, Patricia L. Kennedy. 2019. Survey design for broad-scale, territory-based occupancy monitoring of a raptor: Ferruginous hawk (Buteo regalis) as a case study
• Lucretia E. E. Olson, John R. Squires, Elizabeth K. Roberts, Jacob S. Ivan, Mark Hebblewhite. 2018. Sharing the same slope: Behavioral responses of a threatened mesocarnivore to motorized and non-motorized winter recreation
• Joseph D. Holbrook, John R. Squires, Barry Bollenbacher, Russell T. Graham, Lucretia E. E. Olson, Gary Hanvey, Scott Jackson, Rick L. Lawrence. 2018. Spatio-temporal responses of Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) to silvicultural treatments in the Northern Rockies, U.S.
• Lucretia E. E. Olson, John R. Squires, Robert J. Oakleaf, Zachary P. Wallace, Patricia L. Kennedy. 2017. Predicting above-ground density and distribution of small mammal prey species at large spatial scales
• Lucretia E. E. Olson, John R. Squires, Elizabeth K. Roberts, Aubrey D. Miller, Jacob S. Ivan, Mark Hebblewhite. 2017. Modeling large-scale winter recreation terrain selection with implications for recreation management and wildlife
• Aubrey Miller, Jerry J. Vaske, John R. Squires, Lucretia E. E. Olson. 2017. Does zoning winter recreationists reduce recreation conflict?
• Phillip E. Baigas, John R. Squires, Lucretia E. E. Olson, Jacob S. Ivan, Elizabeth. K. Roberts. 2017. Using environmental features to model highway crossing behavior of Canada lynx in the Southern Rocky Mountains
• Joseph D. Holbrook, John R. Squires, Lucretia E. E. Olson, Rick L. Lawrence, Shannon L. Savage. 2016. Multi-scale habitat relationships of snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) in the mixed conifer landscape of the Northern Rockies, USA: Cross-scale effects of horizontal cover with implications for forest management
• Sue Miller, Michael K. Schwartz, Lucretia E. E. Olson. 2016. Here today, here tomorrow: Managing forests for fisher habitat in the Northern Rockies
• Zachary P. Wallace, Patricia L. Kennedy, John R. Squires, Robert J. Oakleaf, Lucretia E. E. Olson, Katie M. Dugger. 2016. Re-occupancy of breeding territories by ferruginous hawks in Wyoming: Relationships to environmental and anthropogenic factors
• Zachary P. Wallace, Patricia L. Kennedy, John R. Squires, Lucretia E. E. Olson, Robert J. Oakleaf. 2016. Human-made structures, vegetation, and weather influence ferruginous hawk breeding performance
• Lucretia E. E. Olson, Robert J. Oakleaf, John R. Squires, Zachary P. Wallace, Patricia L. Kennedy. 2015. Nesting pair density and abundance of ferruginous hawks (Buteo regalis) and golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) from aerial surveys in Wyoming

• Program
  

  Wildlife Ecology

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/programs/wildlife-ecology
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  The Canada Lynx of the Rockies Research Program

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/lynxresearchprogram
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Planning a multiregional monitoring effort for forest carnivores

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/monitoringforestcarnivores
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Multimedia

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• University of California, Los Angeles, Phd, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2009
• University of Montana, B.A., Biology, 2001