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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Even the Masked Biologist Has to Phone a Friend Sometimes
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:10
	Publish Date:		2018-06-07 07:21:00
	Description:		Sometimes its not what you know, but who you know. In this episode of Wildlife Matters, the Masked Biologist recalls a photo of a forest floor discovery that required help from a colleague to identify. I admit, it had me totally stumped. I had to call in the opinions of someone smarter than I, an expert in the field. I had someone send me a photo of droppings that I simply could not identify. Honestly, they didn’t even look like droppings. They looked like someone had dumped out some wood pellets in a pile in the snow. Not just a few pellets, either, but a good sized handful. Most of the piles were on or near logging roads or trails that had been snow-covered through most of the winter. I had never seen anything like it. Then, when I started getting out this spring to check on the thaw, I saw some of the same kinds of scat piles. When I first started working in this field, people still had to use film cameras to take photos of tracks and scat (animal droppings). Then, they would have
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