Gray Fox Caught by Camera Trap
Enjoy these photos of a gray fox captured by camera trap baited with a road killed deer. Fox detects deer under more than a foot of snow, and attempts to dig down to dinner.
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How to Set up a Camera Trap
Camera traps can help you identify lurking predators, plan hunting expeditions, and learn about wildlife behavior. Here are the basics of setting it up: where, when, how, and the great bait debate.
Continue reading →The Value of Animal Tracking Skills
Tracking wildlife is not only fun, it can help you protect pets and livestock, develop hunting skills, and make sustainable decisions.
Continue reading →River Otter Tracks and Sign: The Basics
Learn the basics of river otter tracks and sign: footprints, trails, slides, scats, etc. This social member of the weasel family delights the tracker.
Continue reading →Beaver: appreciating nature’s other engineer
Learn to identify beaver sign, how they change the landscape, how they live, and why sharing the land with them is crucial for sustainability.
Continue reading →Tracking Bobcats in Massachusetts
I love wildlife, even predators. Yes, it’s true, despite the fact that I keep small livestock which are vulnerable to predation by a long list of wild animals that thrive around my backyard farm, I enjoy seeing them, even on … Continue reading →