New Conservation Contractors Certificate Helps Manage Wild Spaces
NELSONVILLE, Ohio—A group of Hocking College students wound their way through the trails at Wolf Creek Wildlife Area recently.
NELSONVILLE, Ohio—A group of Hocking College students wound their way through the trails at Wolf Creek Wildlife Area recently.
It's 3,500 miles from John Glenn High School in New Concord, Ohio, to Seal Rescue Ireland.
NELSONVILLE, OHIO—To anyone passing by it might have looked like Ron Cass was standing in the middle of a creek picking up rocks and talking to himself, but that’s not quite what he was doing.
**WARNING: This blog contains some graphic photos that may be disturbing to some**
For 25 years, Hocking College students from various programs of the School of Natural Resources have engaged in a month-long field school at Haliburton Forest in Ontario, Canada to study courses such as Wildlife Techniques, Fish Management, Canada Field Ecology, and Aquatic Ecology.
John Muir, the famous American naturalist, geologist and advocate of our National Parks, once said, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” His words especially ring true when it comes to the ecological relationships between pollinators, plants and people.
When a college student gets a part-time job, it typically involves them working in the food service, child care, lawn care, or retail industries. However, Hocking College student, Jacob Raber, became the exception to the rule when he secured a position at Butterfly Ridge.
Hocking College hosted an Introduction to Wildlife Rehabilitation workshop on Sunday, March 31. Wildlife Rehabilitation, or the process of nurturing orphaned and injured wildlife back to health, interests many people from all walks of life. From what people watch on television, wildlife rehab can appear to be a very glamorous activity, with volunteers gracefully freeing bald eagles into the sky and caring for adorable baby animals.
However; in reality, rehabilitation of wild animals involves around-the-clock care, and the understanding that many animals do not survive or are unable to be released back into the wild. Thus, it’s truly a labor of love, but can be very rewarding for those passionate enough to put their heart and souls into these animals.
During the first weekend of March, members of the Hocking College Wildlife Club hung 23 bat boxes on cabins owned or managed by the Buffalo Lodging Company in Hocking County, at the owner’s request.
