American Badger Sightings and Mortality Locations in British Columbia

Data Rescue Intern:  Lia Ferguson

During the winter of 2025/2026, I participated in a data rescue internship for the Ministry of Water Land and Resource Stewardship BC. During my internship, I prepared badger sightings and mortality data that had been contributed by citizens and program partners for over 30 years to be published in the BC Data Catalogue. I cleaned and compiled 8 datasets, validated the data and removed duplicates, wrote functions to process incoming data in the future, and helped with a long term data management plan for the project.