Tracks and Traces
The soft and often muddy soil provides an excellent opportunity to track mammals. Lycos, a shepherd/husky mix provided us with his ability to scent track. Sometimes he tracked and trapped US! This forest is home to many large mammals, including raccoons, porcupines, fishers, deer, bobcat and bear. The smaller mammals that share the forest are a variety of voles, mice and shrews. The shrews are so fragile that even safe trapping often causes them to perish. For that reason, our traps all have shrew escape holes.
The soft and often muddy soil provides an excellent opportunity to track mammals. Lycos, a shepherd/husky mix provided us with his ability to scent track. Sometimes he tracked and trapped US! This forest is home to many large mammals, including raccoons, porcupines, fishers, deer, bobcat and bear. The smaller mammals that share the forest are a variety of voles, mice and shrews. The shrews are so fragile that even safe trapping often causes them to perish. For that reason, our traps all have shrew escape holes.
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