Monday at Cook's Lake

We arrived at Cook's lake base camp to find that our gazebo was destroyed by the wind. We ended up taking it down and will do without it. Lots of leaves had blown off the trees since last Friday.

We divided into 3 teams to do 3 different jobs. One crew did trail maintenance and one did animal transects, looking for a variety of animal signs. I was on the crew that mapped out a trail using a GPS. We provided the latitude and longitude so that we could make a map of the trail.

After lunch we headed out to a different location than last week. We all had to reset the traps with hay, seed and a apple piece. Each team set 20 traps. We had to set our traps in 10 meter rows. How many feet is 10 meters? Tomorrow we will see how many mammals we caught. Kim, my partner and I will hopefully catch a few!

Dr. Chris Newman explains about the different types of scat that we found on the trail.