Field Activities
- Field trip to capture snakes (See photos) at McFaddin NWR in Sabine Pass, TX*
- Field trip to net turtles (See photos) in Contraband Bayou in Lake Charles, LA
- Night field trip to net bats (See photos) at night in Kisatche National Forest in northeast LA
- Field trip to capture and fit pocket gophers (See photos) with radio trackers
- Night field trip to capture alligators (See photos) from boats at McFaddin NWR in Sabine Pass, TX*
- Day field trip to net fish (See photos) and collect benthic invertebrates (See photos) in the Kisatche National Forest
- Day field trip to capture small mammals in Kisatche National Forest
- Night field trip to catch snakes (See photos) at Cameron Prarie National Refuge in Bell City, LA*
- Day field trip to track pocket gophers (See photos) that were tagged a week earlier
- Two-day field trip to Rockefeller refuge for airboat tours of marsh management and alligator nests
- Day trip to electroshock fish (See photos) in the Calcasieu River with Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries scientists
*venomous snakes will only be handled by course instructors
*alligators will be captured by course instructors and students will only be allowed to handle them after their mouths have been secured