Environmental Science Students Collaborate with CWPPRA Staff
This week, Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act staff and ESA Environmental Science students discussed the importance of barrier beach systems for both human and wildlife communities, and students were given training in how researchers trap small mammal populations in those locations for monitoring. After students deployed small mammal traps around the Cade campus on Wednesday, CWPPRA staff returned Thursday morning to help with trap collection and to see what students had captured. In addition to trapping a variety of insects drawn to the oatmeal-soybean bait and finding that several traps had been moved by larger animals, ESA students successfully captured a marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris)!
Read more about the collaboration on the CWPPRA blog.
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Read more about the collaboration on the CWPPRA blog.
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