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North Carolina libraries will begin to lend out motion-activated cameras for citizens to track backyard wildlife as part of the Candid Critters program:
The News & Observer of Raleigh reports organizers of the Candid Critters program hope to have the camera traps at 20,000 to 30,000 locations in backyards, state and national parks, game lands and forests over a three-year period. The cameras will be camouflaged and use an infrared flash so they don't disturb the animals when they go off. "For a long time, scientists have wanted to collect this kind of large-scale data using camera traps," said Roland Kays, the head of the Biodiversity Research Lab at the state Museum of Natural Sciences. "But it's daunting to do by yourself. We basically have built an e-Mammal data management system so that researchers can see and use the information that comes from citizen scientists' camera traps."
Kays said scientists are especially interested in studying the distribution patterns of deer across the state, and how that relates to the number of coyotes. Coyotes aren't native to North Carolina, but they have increased in recent years. Kays said scientists also hope the project will yield new information about bears, skunks, chipmunks, feral hogs and other animals.
Also at WUNC.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @07:13AM
Possibly.
Here is the conversation I had with my new neighbor a few years ago. I had not mowed my yard short enough (for him) as I was letting it grow a bit because it was newly seeded. I found him bashing his lawn mower on the side of my house. Considering I was napping and it was an odd sound to come from the side of the house.
"what are you doing?"
"you need to mow your yard every week or we will get snakes, it looks like shit"
"fuck you and dude its north carolina of course there are snakes"
"I have not seen one since I have been mowing my yard short"
"there is a forest RIGHT behind our houses there *are* snakes and skunks no amount of mowing will change that"
"well you need to mow your yard shorter or I will call the police"
"tell you what, wait right here and I will go call them for you for trespassing and vandalism"
In hind sight I should have let him finish then gone out on the porch and wave and laughed at him. But my temper got the best of me.
Another dude I worked with was MIA one day. Because he had obliterated a deer on the way to work and had to find a new car. This was not in the country. This is in the middle of a town early in the morning.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 28 2016, @12:30PM
It's surprising the guy was bashing his lawnmower against your house, in a state with pretty high gun ownership. Was he from Connecticut or something?
Washington DC delenda est.