Sierra Nevada adaptive project management using the socks continue to chicken feed in the station’s cameras to take pictures of fisher rare forest Carnivore, Pacific. SOCKS filled bait attached to the trunk. When fisher climb trees for chewing socks, it triggers the camera detect movement.
Researchers will through sock 250 per month as they monitor the effects of thinning on forest U.S. Forest Service projects close the Lake Bass in Madera County. The goal is to determine how logging, aimed at reducing the risk of fire, will affect wildlife, habitat and water resources.
By obtaining donated socks, researchers hope to save not only money but time shopping for socks that could be better used in the field.