The Ozaukee County Planning and Parks Department often conducts wildlife monitoring activities in association with habitat restoration or enhancement projects conducted within the Ozaukee County Park System and in habitat restoration project areas as an important component to project planning and evaluating management decisions and effects. Wildlife monitoring has largely focused on avian, herptile, and mammal species. Monitoring activities conducted include breeding bird point-count surveys, audio/visual surveys, acoustic recording surveys, trail camera surveys, nest-box surveys and trapping surveys (e.g. aquatic funnel trapping, and passive cover-object trapping).