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Harris Center teams with wildlife tracker Todd Alleger of the Northeast Motus Collaboration & Willistown Conservation Trust installs the first of 50 Motus receiving stations with members of NH Audubon, NH Fish & Game, and volunteers. PHOTO BY MARK NUTTER
Published: 12/28/2020 4:55:18 PM
The first of an eventual network of 50 wildlife tracking stations across New England is now operational in southwestern New Hampshire, enabling scientists and conservation agencies to follow the movements of tagged birds, bats and migratory insects across the region.
The station was erected last month in Stoddard on the 515-acre Granite Lake Headwaters property of the Harris Center for Conservation Education, Hancock. It is the newest addition to the Motus Wildlife Tracking System, a global network of nearly 1,000 such stations coordinated by Birds Canada, and which can automatically track a new generation of highly miniaturized radio transmitters small enough to be deployed on animals as small
Todd Alleger of the Northeast Motus Collaboration & Willistown Conservation Trust installs the first of 50 Motus receiving stations in Stoddard with members of NH Audubon, NH Fish & Game, and volunteers. Marc Nutter Photo
The first of an eventual network of 50 wildlife tracking stations across New England is now in southwestern New Hampshire, allowing scientists and conservation agencies to track the movements of tagged birds, bats and migratory insects.
The station was erected last month in Stoddard on the 515-acre Granite Lake Headwaters property of the Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock.
According to a New Hampshire Audubon news release, it is the newest addition to the Motus Wildlife Tracking System, a global network of nearly 1,000 such stations coordinated by Birds Canada. It can automatically track a new generation of highly miniaturized radio transmitters small enough to be deployed on animals such as hummingbirds and monar
Published: 12/24/2020 10:18:48 AM
The Harris Center for Conservation Education is accepting registrations for Lab Girls, an online learning opportunity for girls in 5th through 12th grade.
Started in 2017 by the Harris Center, Lab Girls has been providing adolescent girls with a chance to grow their STEM mindset with opportunities to meet and learn from STEM professionals and engage in hands-on learning.
This year, due to the constraints of the pandemic, Lab Girls is moving to a Zoom format and will focus on wildlife biology and citizen science. Going virtual does have its silver lining in that more girls across New Hampshire will have an opportunity to participate in this unique opportunity. This year’s program is co-sponsored by the Harris Center and UNH Cooperative Extension’s STEM program.
Published: 12/24/2020 10:20:52 AM
I’m sure I’m not the only one that thinks being human this year is hard. How many of us have looked at our family pets and felt jealous? They aren’t worrying about a global pandemic. Have you lingered on a mountain top, too, imagining yourself soaring south with the hawks, leaving the stuff of people far behind?
Lately, now, as the earth turns towards the dark and cold, I find myself wishing I was living in the skin of Ursus americanus, an American black bear.
I’d find an upturned tree with a hollow just big enough for me to crawl under and then I would turn my back on the cold world and rest. I’d stay tucked away snoozing, stretching and maybe dreaming until our world spins back to the light, when the ground will be soft again, and green will cloak the earth.