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Porcupine and Red Backed Vole

Posted by Abrianna Schlickenmayer,
North Country explorer from Yucca Valley, California
October 14, 2018 —

Nature Up North's Erika Barthelmess doubles as a Mammalogy teacher at St.Lawrence University. Here she leads students in the fundamentals of small mammal trapping. This weekend several students, myself included, set up small mammal traps on the Kip Trail behind St. Lawrence where we caught this female red backed vole and this adult male porcupine!