The Trip of Tracks (4-11-13)

On a snowy day in April, Greg met us at the Moose Flats. We found millions of tracks from martens, wolves, squirrels, moose and shrews. Three chaperones went with us. ( Greg, Bre, and Dianne) We started in a meadow and ended in a conifer dominated forest. When we went to the edge of the forest there were more tracks than we found in the meadow. The reason they're close to the forest is the forest provides the animals protection. Our hypothesis says the animals are most likely to be found in a conifer dominated forest. After this discovery we were very surprised they were hanging out at the edge of the forest, and we realized our hypothesis might be correct.

Greg found a stream in the forest.. We also saw tracks from a marten that jumped on a stick to cross the stream so its feet wouldn't get wet. The reason we went to this site is our class wants to visit each site twice. I think this snowy meadow is the last snowy site, but we did it for our year long study about birds and animal sign.