Team Beech
New York and Vermont
In summer 2008, students and I spent six weeks sampling "smammals" in four different northeastern regions experiencing various stages of beech bark disease. Our first site was in the Catskills at Frost Valley. We began to notice a shift from the dominant deer mouse of last summer to that of the woodland jumping mouse at the very first site. We later continued on to Huntington Forest in the Adirondacks, Miner Institute affiliated property in Altona, NY, and ended our sampling in Coolidge State Forest of the Green Mountains in mid-July.
In summer 2008, students and I spent six weeks sampling "smammals" in four different northeastern regions experiencing various stages of beech bark disease. Our first site was in the Catskills at Frost Valley. We began to notice a shift from the dominant deer mouse of last summer to that of the woodland jumping mouse at the very first site. We later continued on to Huntington Forest in the Adirondacks, Miner Institute affiliated property in Altona, NY, and ended our sampling in Coolidge State Forest of the Green Mountains in mid-July.