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Aging Fish
[caption id="attachment_346" align="alignright" width="300"] A scale from a 5 year old landlocked salmon.
Short Videos Offer Glimpse Of Wildlife Biologists In The Field
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgr_-RBMc6c Chuck Hulsey is a wildlife biologist with an eye for detail and a knack for stories. That’s what makes this new feature on the IFW Website so compelling. “In The Wildlife Biologist’s Footsteps” is Chuck Hulsey taking two passions, video filming and wildlife, and creating memorable video stories of wildlife biologists working in the field.
Nets of the Trade
[caption id="attachment_351" align="alignleft" width="300"] A trap net set for salmon and trout.
Why Do We Band Ducks?
[caption id="attachment_73" align="alignright" width="300"] The numbered band on this duck will allow biologists to track this duck and provide valuable i
Duck Box Maintenance
[caption id="attachment_357" align="alignleft" width="225"] One of the duck boxes on the Gregg Sanborn (Brownfield) WMA[/caption] Wildlife biologists are taking advantage of the thick ice and cooler temperatures this time of year to investigate activity that may have occurred
Did you know...
[caption id="attachment_589" align="alignleft" width="306"] Black bear with cub[/caption] Bears are not true hibernators? A true hibernator, like a chipmunk, enters a state of hibernation and then will not wake until their biological clock tells them to, regardless of external stimuli. Bears do not hibernate.
Big Reed and Wadleigh Reclamation Updates
[caption id="attachment_245" align="alignright" width="240"] In the spring of 2010, fisheries biologists used trap nets to help determine the severity of the situation at Wadleigh Pond.
Why Do You Separate Eggs In The Hatchery?
[caption id="attachment_63" align="alignright" width="150"] Wonka's Egg-Dicator[/caption] Willie Wonka, you may remember, possessed an Egg-dicator at his chocolate factory.
Hibernating Herpetofauna
[caption id="attachment_235" align="alignleft" width="240"] A bull frog perches on a rock enjoying the sun.[/caption] Herpetofauna is a term referring to reptiles and amphibians as one group. Often it is shortened to just ‘herps’.
How Do IFW Hatcheries Help Salmon Spawn?
It’s probably not the image you have in your head when you think of salmon spawning, for it is not the majestic leap from pool to pool as a salmon migrates upriver to spawn. [caption id="attachment_44" align="alignright" width="240"]
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