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Articles and Essays
About Place Journal, October 2023
Tideland, Summer 2023
Rewilding Earth, February 9, 2023
Tideland, Winter 2022
Seattle Times (op-ed), November 29, 2022
Deep Wild, Volume 4, 2022
A Trio of Gardens (pp. 20-21)
Tideland, Summer 2022
Tideland, Summer 2022
Tideland, Spring 2022
Wild Hope, Volume 10, 2021
Earth Island Journal, Autumn 2021
The Wildlife Professional, July/August 2021
Wild Hope, Volume 9, 2020
Wild Hope, Volume 8, 2020
Rewilding Earth, March 21, 2020
Deep Wild, Volume 1, 2019
Earth Island Journal, Summer 2019
Wild Hope, Volume 6, 2019
For Love of Orcas (anthology), 2019
American Forests, Winter/Spring 2019
Earth Island Journal, December 19, 2018
Inside Ecology, November 1, 2018
Earth Island Journal, October 25, 2018
Writing for Animals (anthology), 2018
Wild Hope, Volume 5, 2018
Earth Island Journal, May 24, 2018
Inside Ecology, May 4, 2018
Earth Island Journal, April 4, 2018
Earth Island Journal, March 21, 2018
Wild Again (with John Davis)
Earth Island Journal, Summer 2016
Siblings: Our First Macrocosm (anthology), 2015
Washington Trails, July/August, 2014
Conservation Northwest Quarterly, Spring/Summer, 2012
Seattle Times, July 15, 2011
The Bark. November 2008
Wildlife Conservation, November/December, 2004
Scientific Publications
Burton, A.C., Beirne, C., Gaynor, K.M., et al. 2024. Mammal responses to global changes in human activity vary by trophic group and landscape. Nat Ecol Evol, March 18. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02363-2
Fisher, Jason T. et al. 2022. Wolverines (Gulo gulo) in a changing landscape and warming climate: A decadal synthesis of global conservation ecology research. Global Ecology and Conservation, vol. 34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2022.e02019
Franklin, T.W., McKelvey, K.S., Golding, J.D., et al. 2019. Using environmental DNA methods to improve winter surveys for rare carnivores: DNA from snow and improved noninvasive techniques. Biological Conservation 229:50–58.
Long, R.A. and P. MacKay. 2012. Noninvasive methods for surveying martens, fishers, and sables. In: Biology and Conservation of Martens, Sables, and Fishers: A new synthesis. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Long, R.A., T.M. Donovan, P. MacKay, J.S. Buzas, and W.J. Zielinski. 2010. Predicting carnivore occurrence with noninvasive survey data and occupancy modeling. Landscape Ecology 26:327–340.
MacKay, P. and R. Long. 2009. Noninvasive carnivore research. In: Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare, M. Bekoff (ed.). Westport, CT: Greenwood.
Long, R.A., P. MacKay, J.C. Ray, and W.J. Zielinski (eds.). 2008. Noninvasive Survey Methods for Carnivores. Washington, DC: Island Press.
MacKay, P., D. Smith, M. Parker, and R.A. Long. 2008. Scat detection dogs. In: Noninvasive Survey Methods for Carnivores, R.A. Long et al. (eds.). Washington, DC: Island Press.
MacKay, P., W.J. Zielinski, R.A. Long, and J.C. Ray. 2008. Noninvasive research and carnivore conservation. In: Noninvasive Survey Methods for Carnivores, R.A. Long et al. (eds.). Washington, DC: Island Press.
Long, R.A., T.M. Donovan, P. MacKay, J.S. Buzas and W.J. Zielinski. 2007. Comparing detection dogs, cameras, and hair snares for detecting carnivores. Journal of Wildlife Management 71:2018–2025.
Long, R.A., T.M. Donovan, P. MacKay, W.J. Zielinski and J.S. Buzas. 2007. Effectiveness of scat detection dogs for detecting forest carnivores. Journal of Wildlife Management 71:2007–2017.