The Prescott Student Chapter of the Wildlife Society

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The Prescott Student Chapter of the Wildlife Society Professional development organization for wildlife biology, based in Prescott, Arizona.

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This is a great field experience!!! So if you are free come join us!

Hello All,
The ferret project is offering a unique volunteer opportunity to help us trap and process prairie dogs on the Espee Ranch August 25-28. Everyone who attends will be able to get hands-on experience handling prairie dogs, ear tagging, microchipping, plucking hair and whiskers, and combing for fleas. We are trapping prairie dogs as part of a national oral sylvatic plague vaccine research project for the USGS.

This vaccine is in the form of a kibble (bait) that is put out on the landscape. Each bait has a biomarker that stays present in the hair and whiskers of the prairie dog so that is why we need to pluck hair and whiskers. Once the samples are submitted, it is possible to look at the whiskers under a microscope since the bait will cause the whiskers to be fluorescent. This is how it determined that the prairie dogs are eating the bait. All fleas collected will be submitted for identification and to be tested for plague.

Our plan is to have at least 100 traps at our plague study sites. These traps will already be in place so volunteers are needed to help check traps and process prairie dogs.

We will be on the Espee Ranch (about 2 hours northeast from Seligman) at a primitive camp site with no running water, bathrooms, or electricity so you would need to bring your tent and any other supplies that you will need. There will be tables and cook stoves at the site but please bring enough snacks, water, and food for yourself. Although there hasn’t been much rain so far on the ranch, there is a possibility for rain storms so bring rain gear.

Everyone is welcome to come out for all 3 days of trapping or just one or two days depending on your schedule. The ferret crew will be going up to the Espee on Monday, August 25th, and will arrive around 3:00 p.m. We will bait and open traps that evening. You can arrive at camp anytime on Monday. If you are unable to come out on Monday, then please be at the campsite no later than 7am on the mornings that we are trapping (Tues-Thurs, August 26-28) when we will leave the camp site to begin checking prairie dog traps. Normally, we are done processing prairie dogs around noon.

Could everyone who is interested in coming please email or call me to verify that you will be there along with what days and times you will be there? If anyone has any questions, you can email me or call me using the contact information below. Car pool options may be available.

I look forward to working with everyone!


Jennifer Cordova
Wildlife Specialist II
Arizona Game and Fish Department
PO Box 397
Seligman, AZ 86337
928-422-0155
[email protected]

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It's Lobo Week! Come celebrate at the Orpheum Theatre in Flagstaff on Friday. The Wild and Scenic Film Festival will benefit The Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project. It was a blast last year and this year should be just as awesome!
http://www.gcwolfrecovery.org/

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