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This month we are sharing an assessment of triggers classified as domestic cats by trail camera hosts through May 2017. There were 244 triggers marked as domestic cats
from 56 survey blocks. Very few of the triggers were misclassified which is likely because domestic cats have fairly unique coloration. Additionally, trail camera hosts are often recognizing their own cats roaming their property. The most common animal misclassified as a domestic cat was cottontail rabbit. Raccoon and fox were also misclassified as domestic cat.
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Example pictures of domestic cats: A) Brown County, 04-NOV-16 B) Buffalo County, 02-SEP-16, C) Dane County,
03-JAN-17, D) Dane County, 02-OCT-16.
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We are now accepting applications from private land trail camera hosts in Ashland, Bayfield, Douglas, Price, Vilas, Crawford, Richland and Sauk Counties! These 8 new counties bring our total open counties to 26 counties. If you have access to at least 10 acres of privately owned land in one of these counties please signup to participate! If you have previously applied to participate in one of these counties we will be in touch soon to confirm your interest. All equipment and training is provided at no cost to participants. Basic computer and internet skills, as well as access to high speed internet, are helpful. In person training sessions are currently being planned for late winter. |
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If you host trail cameras, chances are you’ve spotted a few
photos of whitetail deer passing through. But how do these snapshots add up to
the bigger picture of deer herd health?
The DNR’s Office of Applied Science is working to answer
this question through the Southwest Wisconsin CWD, Deer & Predator Study.
If you own property within the study
area, consider joining the largest and most comprehensive deer study ever
undertaken in Wisconsin as a volunteer landowner or Snapshot Wisconsin trail
camera host!
Subscribe
to our newsletter to follow our progress. To volunteer, email Caitlin
Henning at caitlin.henning@wisconsin.gov.
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Registration is now open for the Wisconsin Summit for Natural Resources Volunteers which is March 22-24 in Eau Claire. This will be an action packed few days with great workshops, presentations and training sessions for volunteer programs across the state. Snapshot
Wisconsin recruitment is open statewide for educators, if you are interested in
hosting a trail camera for education purposes consider attending our in person
training taking place March 22nd at the conference. We will also be presenting an introduction to Zooniverse workshop. Find out all the details about the summit on their website. |
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This month we are sharing the #SuperSnap of the Year instead of the Volunteer Spotlight Photo of the Month. #SuperSnap is a feature on our Zooniverse talk boards where participants nominate particularly good photos to be #SuperSnap of the month. Voting recently concluded for our #SuperSnap of the Year and the winner is the 3 bear cubs shown below which were captured on one of our Sawyer County cameras last May. See the full results here.
Spotlight Photo of the Month will be back next month. To nominate one of your favorite photos from your Snapshot Wisconsin camera email the photo as a jpeg to DNRSnapshotWisconsin@wisconsin.gov along with the date/time and county where the photo was taken. Please also share why you love the photo.
Contact Information for Snapshot Wisconsin
Phone: 608-572-6103
Participate on Zooniverse: www.SnapshotWisconsin.org
Find out more details on our webpage:
dnr.wi.gov Keyword "Snapshot Wisconsin
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