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All it takes is Passion to turn a campfire into a ceremony.” -GF

Greetings Coyote Trails Family,

We have some exciting updates for 2020 that we want to share with you as they develop. Just to remind you, we will only be running programs for ages 16 and up. Please read below to smell what’s burning:

Right around the corner:

  • Senior (Elder) Ski and Snowshoe Week at Diamond Lake, Feb 3-6, 2020. While not a full Coyote Trails event, this is a program we are excited about, and some of us will be in attendance teaching winter tracking & volunteering to help with the “tours.” To learn more, give Diamond Lake a call at (541)793-3333 (website here).

Senior (Elder) Ski and Snowshoe Week at Diamond Lake

Stay tuned:

  • Lynx and Wolverine Tracking Workshop in Yellowstone with a well known North American tracker and scientist. October 2020. Space will be limited to the first ten participants to register. (Registration opens next month)
  • Citizen Science Mammal Tracking Program in Southern Oregon

Postponed:

  • Kauai Retreat (previously announced) is on hold while logistics are finalized.

Welcome Our Newest Board Member:

  • Dave Clayton (pictured below) has lived in the Siskiyou Mountains since he was a teen. He moved here in 1972 form Washington State and Alaska. He went to high school and college (SOU), received his BS in Biology and went to work as a biologist in 1990 for the US Forest Service. Dave is the Forest Wildlife Biologist for the Rogue River –Siskiyou National Forest now. He has studied varied taxa such as terrestrial salamanders (the Siskiyou Mountain’s salamander), discovered a new salamander, the Scott Bar Salamander, worked with bats for over 35 years, western pond turtles, all kinds of snakes and lizards, and more recently has been working with meso-carnivores (fisher and marten) here in SW Oregon, in particular, the Ashland watershed to investigate the effects of fuels reductions on fisher. Dave has a wife of 43 years and has a lovely daughter. He lives in the Applegate Valley on five acres. “I love the Siskiyou Mountains!”

Dave Clayton

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Have a great 2020!,
Joe & the *insert your own band name here*