Rehabbed fox returned to EcoPreserve

Rehabbed fox returned to EcoPreserve

    Sometimes you’re at the right place at the right time. Driving home one rainy winter’s evening along River Road in Piscataway, Nicole Golden from the Mercer County Wildlife Center spied the flashing lights of police car and a cluster of people gathered around the cowering form of a red fox. Nicole pulled over and jumped out ready to help the hapless fox, evidently hit by a car while crossing the road from the Rutgers Ecological Preserve towards Johnson…

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Students take active role in EcoPreserve restoration projects

Students take active role in EcoPreserve restoration projects

Students from the Principles of Natural Resource Management Class undertook a number of management/restoration projects out in the EcoPreserve this past fall 2011, including: trailbed restoration, Buell Brook stream restoration, invasive species removals, bathouse installation and deer exclosures with native shrub/tree planting. Instructor: Rick Lathrop