A 15-hour certification course by Dr. Jim Halfpenny of the Track Education Center.
Confirmed mountain lion sightings and signs within Milwaukee Audubon’s membership territory of Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington, Waukesha, and Dodge Counties since 2016, and our last workshop, make this indoor tracking workshop for several predator species very timely.
Dr. Halfpenny predicts that Wisconsin will have a breeding population of cougars within the next 15 years. Secret and elusive, cougars are creatures of myth and rumor. Capable of killing people, cougars stir our imagination, curiosity, and fear. Improve your knowledge about cougars, their presence, dangers, and management. Learn why Wisconsin is central to cougar dispersal.
Cougar ecology and verification covers population biology, behavior, pet trade, locating tracks and signs, determining age and sex, verifying presence, collecting quality evidence, and how cougars interact at the human interface.
Learn to accurately identify and document signs of cougars, dogs, lynx, wolves, and other rare carnivores. This is not a field program but includes sandbox tracking. Learn to make plaster casts of rare mammal tracks and how to purchase, make, and place various trail camera sets for cougars and other mammals.
Reserve your place in this program!
Sessions are Saturday and Sunday from 9am - 5pm.
Specific locations for the Cougar Ecology program:
The Sugarbush House has fire number 4400 which is on a roadside sign. The west parking lot has fire number 4301. Likewise, that number is on a green roadside sign. From the west parking lot (which is not near the main nature center complex) you walk to the River Outpost where the Friday evening program is held. Another way to locate the west parking lot is that it is across the street from the intersection of Singing Hill Road.
Mail name and contact info with advance registration of $150 to: Milwaukee Audubon Society, c/o Jim Uhrinak 7460 N. Longview Avenue, Glendale, WI 53209
BONUS PROGRAM
Wolverine: Fact & Fiction
When: Friday evening, April 17th at 7 PM. From the west parking lot, walk to Riveredge Nature Center’s River Outpost. Free to cougar workshop registrants; $5 for non-registrant visitors.
See image of map for directions. Click below for a PDF with all the details.
