Activities
The majority of the activities during the Range and Wildlife Camp will take place outdoors and will include:
- Wildlife Activities: Learn about Wildlife habitat requirements, including forage and cover. You’ll also learn how to use telemetry and GPS collars to tracks animals!
- Livestock Management: Examine grazing systems, forage measurements, and cutting-edge livestock research.
- Botany Hike: Get hands-on experience examining plant characteristics of grasses, wildflowers, shrubs, and trees.
- Fire Ecology: Explore fire management, plant succession, and build your own forest model to see how fire impacts ecosystems!
- Soil Activities: Discover how soils shape ecosystems, texture soils, measure water movement through different soils, and create soil-inspired artwork!
- Water, Water, Water: Build a watershed, explore topographic maps, and learn how beavers shape water ecosystems.
- Wildlife Hike: On this hike, you will learn to identify birds (and their songs!) and search for animal tracks and scat.
- Rangeland Improvements: Learn how to combat rangeland degradation with tools and techniques such as reseeding, chaining, prescribed fire, and herbicide to restore native vegetation and improve wildlife habitat.
