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On
Saturday, January 31, 2004, the Walden Woods Project and Walden Keeping Track
offered an afternoon of presentations and field education called Walden
Woods Wildlife: A Talk and Tracking Workshop. The program was
attended by more than forty people from the greater Boston
Area.
 Participants learned about the history of biodiversity
as an environmental and policy concept and the place of Walden
Woods in regional, national, and international biodiversity contexts.
Well-known regional trapper and tracking teacher, Bob Metcalf, presented a slide
show of the many kinds of wildlife tracks participants could expect
to encounter in their outings and he offered several clues to help identify each
of the tracks.
 After the informational presentations and a quick talk about winter outdoor
safety by Kat Conley of EMS
in Acton, everyone bundled up and headed out to the Concord
Landfill to see what they could find.
It was a crisp sunny mid-winter day. A light snow had fallen earlier in
the week, so the tracking opportunities were abundant. Groups found tracks
of field
mice, rabbits, deer, voles, and other wildlife. After two hours in the
chill, everyone was ready to head back inside for some hot
apple cider.
 Some of our staff
members as well as some of our participants took some great photographs of our
afternoon. Jeffrey Collins, a
field ecologist with Mass
Audubon ecological extension, has plotted the trackers data from this outing
on a GIS map
(PDF Format).
To see upcoming
Discovering Walden Woods programs as well as the other upcoming programs at
Walden Woods, please visit our Calendar.
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