| | Accession Number | 5004474 |
| | Title | Technical Assistance to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Mary Ratnaswamy/John |
| | Morten/Irvin Ailes |
| | Project Description | Dr. Bocetti provides technical assistance to personnel at several U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
| | facilities. The technical assistance is occasionally specific to a single task, but mostly it is |
| | on-going. A description of the technical assistance for each facility is below. 1) Chesapeake Bay |
| | Field Office, Annapolis, MD: a)serve as an advisor to the Delmarva Fox Squirrel (DFS) Recovery |
| | Team, b)demonstrate DFS trapping, handling, ear tagging, and PIT tagging protocols, c)conduct |
| | surveys for DFS to determine current range of the species; Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, |
| | Cambridge, MD: a) demonstrate DFS trapping, handling, ear tagging, and PIT tagging protocols, |
| | b) assist with mark-recapture data collection on benchmark sites, c) provide poster, script, and |
| | slides for education program and other presentations, d) co-propose additional cooperative DFS |
| | research related to fire management; Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Chincoteague, VA: |
| | a) demonstrate DFS trapping, handling, ear tagging, and PIT tagging protocols, b) assist with |
| | annual nest box checks. |
| | Keywords | benchmarks, demonstrations, protocols, surveys, technical assistance, |
| | Principal | Carol I Bocetti, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: carol_bocetti@usgs.gov; |
| | Investigators |
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