Category Archives: project update
Second Year of Trapping (2023)
A Full Trapping Season We trapped at three sites in winter 2023: an irrigated dairy pasture, an irrigated forage field, and an unirrigated forage field. These sites were on three different farms, one in Marion County and two in Polk … Continue reading
First Year of Trapping (2022)
Reduced Trapping Season The delays we experienced due to the leptospirosis issue meant we missed the January-February 2022 window of opportunity to focus our removals on would-be breeders before breeding season began. However, we persisted in running one round of … Continue reading
Preparation Work for the Trapping Study
To develop our trapping protocols, we did some preliminary field work in the fall of 2021. In a dairy pasture with signs of vole activity (holes, runs, fresh feces in runs) and even some vole sightings, we investigated burrow structure … Continue reading