[SEMCO] "You 'otta Know about Your Otters" at the OPET Annual Meeting Aug 16th

[wbuesseler at comcast.net]

“You ‘otta Know about Your Otters” 




at the Oyster Pond Environmental Trust Annual Meeting 


River otter "caught" on a wildlife camera at Edgartown Great Harbor 

Thursday August 16, 2012 - 7pm - Falmouth Artists Guild - 137 Gifford St., Falmouth 



Did you know there are river otters in Falmouth? If you are lucky, you may have spotted some fishing for herring around Oyster Pond or crossing the bike path in the early morning. Luanne Johnson, a wildlife biologist and director of BiodiversityWorks, a Martha's Vineyard non-profit will present “You ‘otta Know about Your Otters” , a talk about the natural history of coastal river otters inhabiting our watersheds and what you can do to help them. 





She is the featured speaker at the Oyster Pond Environmental Trust (OPET) Annual Meeting. OPET is a non-profit dedicated to conserving and protecting the natural environment and ecological systems of Oyster Pond in Falmouth. The meeting and talk is on Thursday, August 16 th at 7pm at the Falmouth Artists Guild at 137 Gifford Street in Falmouth. The public is welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be served following the presentations. 




Luanne will show some of the amazing photographs and videos of these charismatic animals captured on wildlife cameras set up around the island. 





In 2009, together with Liz Baldwin (Antioch University New England), and Chris Neill (MBL Ecosystems Center), they began the first monitoring and research project on coastal river otters ( Lontra canadensis ) inhabiting the Martha’s and Elizabeth Islands. They recently expanded their efforts to the Woods Hole and Falmouth area. They survey ponds, wetlands, and shoreline for otter tracks, scats, and trails to gather baseline data on the distribution of this top predator in our watersheds. 





Luanne has spent much of her 20 year field career working to recover endangered birds, such as the Atlantic coast Piping plover and Palila (a finch-billed Hawaiian honeycreeper). However, her doctoral research was on coastal striped skunks inhabiting Piping plover nesting beaches from 2004 - 2008. 

For additional information visit our web site www.opet.org or call 508-540-8162. 


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Wendi Buesseler 
Executive Director 
Oyster Pond Environmental Trust 
508-540-8162 
P.O. Box 496 
Woods Hole MA 02543 
http://opet.org/ 

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