Events
Keeping Track Teams to Collect Data
When: February 11, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Where: Wild Forests, Various Locations, Essex, NY and Jericho, VT
Two teams of citizen scientists are being trained this year to monitor the presence and movement of wildlife in the Champlain Valley. The Keeping Track training program will teach students to detect and interpret wildlife tracks and sign and collect data about bears, bobcats, moose, and other animals. The information will help us identify key habitats between the Adirondack and Green Mountains, a high priority linkage for conservation. Trainings begin in New York in January 2012. Anyone interested in learning to “read” the forest and monitor wildlife presence is encouraged to enroll. WE ARE STILL ACCEPTING NEW ENROLLMENTS.
Wild & Wonderfully Near Us: Bobcat Recovery in the Champlain Valley
When: January 26, 2012 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where: Whallonsburg Grange, Corner of Route 22 and Whallons Bay Road, Whallonsburg, NY
Wildlife expert Susan Morse of Keeping Track will give a slideshow and talk about bobcats (Lynx rufus). Once found throughout most of North America, bobcats were decimated in the early to mid 1900s due to the value of their fur. Come learn more about these beautiful spotted wildcats whose populations are reviving across our region.
Wildlife Prepares for Winter in the Champlain Valley
When: December 10, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Where: Wild Forest, Location Provided to Registrants, Westport, NY
Expert naturalist Alcott Smith will lead this program in the Split Rock Wildway in the Champlain Valley of New York, where cold weather has arrived. On this field foray into the northeastern forest, participants will track wild nature to learn how species cope with and adapt to the cooling weather and talk about how local wild lands connect habitat for wildlife and nature.
Getting Wild & Connected: A 7,000-mile Trek Along the Eastern Wildway
When: September 6, 2011 from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Where: Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
On Tuesday, September 6, 2011, the Trust sponsored a talk by wilderness explorer and conservationist John Davis, who is in the midst of a 7,000-mile outdoor journey that is drawing attention to the need to restore, protect, and connect the East’s wildest places. Called TrekEast, Davis is traveling by foot, bike, and boat from Florida to the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec, and has already trekked almost 5,500 miles through swamps, rivers, and mountains.
