Ithaca College

Jason Hamilton, Chair of IC’s Environmental Studies & Sciences Department, has been observing the behavior of wild animals passing through the IC Natural Lands for several years now. He has a network of trail cameras set up, and has placed sand-filled tracking boxes at some locations to capture a sense of how movement and tracks are related.  

Photos and tracks provide good information for the Honors tracking courses he teaches, as well as for ENVS student research. The cameras have captured elusive coyotes, as well as the more frequent fox, deer, raccoon, skunks, and opossum. The article describing his field work, as well as that of the Cayuga Nature Center’s Mike Sacco, appears in the Sep/Oct 2015 issue of Life in the Finger Lakes.