Wednesday, September 6, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Families conduct citizen science
entertainment & EVENTS
WED...SEPT. 6
By Kyle Spurr
The Bulletin
BEND (AP) — An edu-
cational program for children
and their families at the High
Desert Museum left a positive
effect on the participants, but
also valuable data for wildlife
biologists.
The museum hosted six
workshop sessions in April
and May for nine families
with children ages 6 through
10. The program — funded
by a $250,000 grant from
the Institute of Museum and
Library Sciences — focused
on studying carnivores in the
Central Oregon Cascades.
Each family took home
a wildlife camera during the
six-week program and cap-
tured images of passing ani-
mals such as deer, coyotes and
jackrabbits. Now, their photos
are available in book form
from local libraries.
“All of that data is useful,”
Jon Nelson, curator of wild-
life at the museum, said. “You
never know what is going to
be valuable or not.”
One family caught espe-
cially useful images of a red
fox, possibly the rare Sierra
Nevada red fox biologists are
hoping to learn more about.
Two Sierra Nevada red foxes
were captured and radio-
collared in May in the high-
elevation forest near Mount
Bachelor.
Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife is attempt-
ing to catch and study more of
the rare species, Nelson said.
The one caught on camera
was in the lower elevation of
Dry Canyon in Redmond, an
unexpected location. It would
take a DNA sample from a
hair snare to be sure it was
the Sierra Nevada fox, Nelson
said.
“It’s not out of the question
that it could be,” he said.
Stacey Durden, her hus-
band, Jeff, and 10-year-old
daughter, Ila, are the family
that spotted the red fox. The
Durdens tied the camera to a
tree off Dry Canyon Trail near
their house and then sprinkled
bits of tuna and cat food to
entice animals. It worked on
the fox, Stacey Durden said.
“The fox would come
around at 9 a.m. and back at 5
p.m. and that was its routine,”
she said.
Using information they
learned at the workshops, the
Durdens continue to visit the
Dry Canyon area and check
tracks and scat, including
from the fox.
The family is planning to
buy their own wildlife cam-
era to continue their citizen-
science work. Durden — the
development director and
communications manager at
Volunteers in Medicine Clinic
of the Cascades in Bend —
said the whole experience
has built up her daughter’s
confidence and has made her
excited about adding to scien-
tific research in the region. Ila
plans to upload wildlife pho-
tos to the citizen science web-
site, iNaturalist.com.
“To look and see what
other people are seeing in
Central Oregon, and that
our experience could further
research, I think she felt really
fulfilled by being a part of it,”
Durden said.
The program last spring
culminated with each fam-
ily putting together a 20- to
30-page book full of photos
and writings about their expe-
rience. Copies of the books
are available for checkout at
the Deschutes public libraries
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The library system and
museum worked with Oregon
State University-Cascades to
run the program.
Christina Cid, director of
programs for the museum,
said working with the fami-
lies made a huge impact on
her, and she is looking for-
ward to hosting the program
again in April with a new
group of families. The grant
funding from the Institute of
Museum and Library Services
covers the program next year.
Cid is exploring other funding
sources to make the program
an annual event.
“I’ve been an educator for
more than 20 years, and this
was the first opportunity I
had to work with families for
a sustained period of time,”
Cid said. “Throughout the
program, the families were
exploring the carnivores
that live throughout Central
Oregon. Families don’t often
get opportunities like this to
learn together.”
For the Durdens, meet-
ing every Saturday for six
weeks at the museum for the
workshops was not only edu-
cational but also guaranteed
quality family time.
“I thought the team build-
ing as a family would be
a really great thing to go
through,” Durden said. “It
was rewarding.”
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