Holland College Wildlife Conservation Technology

Congratulations to our 2026 graduates! 🎉 It's crazy how quickly the two years went by. We will miss all their smiling faces, but wish them the very best in their future endeavours 🦅🦆🐟🐍🌲🌿

Our first years finished off the semester with their spring field camp and Advanced Wilderness and Remote First Aid training. It was a great week! We would like to wish them all a great summer and lots of cool wildlife sightings 😎🐾

On Friday our first-years headed back to the streams to collect their macroinvertebrate samplers (and of course squeezed in a bit of birding 😁). Later this week, they will be looking at these samples under a microscope to see what they've collected!

Today we looked at different methods for aging mammals using their teeth!🦷

Today the first-years learned how to propagate African violets using leaf stem cuttings. These cuttings will be monitored over the next several weeks to compare different treatments and rooting mediums (soil vs water). Stay tuned for the results! 🌱

Our first-year class spent a couple of days in the lab cleaning preparing these muskrat skulls. They turned out great!

Squeezing in some bird identification before the rain 🦆

Our first-year wildlife students have visited all kinds of different habitats this fall to learn about and collect a wide variety of plants. We have visited forests, fields, beaches, bogs, and everything in between! 🌲🌳🌿 We also got to see some neat critters along the way.

Another successful fall field camp in the books! 🍁

Our first year students have braved the cold this week to identify and collect some winter twigs! 🌨