Our special guest for the field trip was Butch Galvez, a wildlife technician with the Department of Natural Resources. He shared with us some of the special adaptations coyotes, deer, and other animals have to cope with the harshness of winter.
Butch showed us a beaver pond, and taught us a lot about beaver ecology.
A sweet spot for beavers (photo by Ryan Fisk)
Evidence of recent beaver activity. (photo by Ryan Fisk)
Along the way to Blue Mountain we couldn’t help but examine the lichens we are getting know, like Lungwort (photo by Ryan Fisk)…
Reindeer Lichen (photo by Ryan Fisk)…
Fairy Puke (tee hee!) (photo by Ryan Fisk)…
and Giant Cladonia! (photo by Ryan Fisk)
We made it! Here are some of our intrepid hikers at the Blue Mountain summit. We had a 360 degree view! (photo by Ryan Fisk)
