(Solved): 8. A Conservation Biologist with the Arizona Game & Fish Department has been tasked with estimating the population size of elk in the Kaibab National Forest...

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~~8. A Conservation Biologist with the Arizona Game & Fish Department has been tasked with estimating the population size of elk in the Kaibab National Forest. Given the information presented in Lab 12, what method might she use to determine approximately how many elk are present? What might be a possible disadvantage to using this method to estimate animal population sizes? (5 points)

I would advise that she use random sampling. This will include marking the forest into target regions where she will correct samples and the pick random samples from the samples group.

I would prefer this method because in most