Learn to identify bobcat and fisher tracks this Summer!

If you have a few spare hours per week and an interest in identifying small mammal tracks, hiking he beautiful Feather Creek drainage, and photographing elk and deer this may be for you!

Project: Wildlife Monitoring on a "ripped" road, that is a road that has been remove and returned to the earth. It is now a trail with native vegetation returning more each year. A certain number of miles of roads are ripped in the Clearwater each year thanks mostly to the work and foresight of the Nez Perce Tribe. We cooperate with a group from Missoula called Wildlands CPR. We set up the Clearwater site and compile data to send to them. This is the fourth year of the project.

Location: Feather Creek, just north of Bovill, Idaho (45 minutes from Moscow) on the Clearwater National Forest. Cameras and track stations will be set up in multiple locations, including some sites by an existing forest road and some by the ripped road.

Job: After initial field site set up and training, make weekly or bi-weekly trips to the site to download digital pictures from motion-sensitive cameras and collect and re-set track plates. All equipment is provided.

Compensation: You will be compensated for all of your gas expenses and if you are interested you may apply to be an Americorps EAP volunteer, which will allow you to earn college money after you have completed a certain number of hours of service for FOC.

Contact: Will Boyd, Education & Outreach Director

(208) 882-7210

foc@friendsoftheclearwater.org