Weekly blog post:
This week at the Stiles Farm, I began setting up meso-mammal scent and camera stations around the property. I learned how to drive a t-post as well as set up a scent station and then traveled around the property looking for wildlife travel corridors and tracks to determine where to place my stations. This week we also began the process of fermenting corn for hog bait. For our corn container, we used an old barrel and had to make a lid out of plywood and lumber. During this process, I learned how to use a circular saw and power drill. This week I was also able to get more comfortable being in close proximity with cattle by assisting animal science intern Taylor Burrell and farm manager Ryan Collett with sorting cows in the working pens.
