Mt. Evans Outdoor Lab 2005 - High Potential Week (Wildlife Biology Group)
The bus ride up to Mt. Evans Outdoor Lab 
Unloading the Bus 
Waiting for our luggage 
Crane Catherine, Snake Sam, Koala Katie and Birdy Brenna 
The Human Knot 
Mia 
Observing a predator 
Dallas 
Forward facing eyes and sharp teeth of a predator. 
Danny 
Brenna 
Lisa 
Predator Jeapordy 
Vanna White and Alex Trebeck 
Writing a predator poem 
Brittany and an arctic fox (summer phase) 
Brittany and the polar bear 
Flag Ceremony 
Reading our predator poems 
Taking down the flags 
Folding the flag 
Becky 
Jaclyn 
Dancing the Troika 
Cam dancing the Electric Slide 
Jaclyn having fun dancing 
Becky 
Improv night at Mt. Evans 
Jackson Pond 
Mt. Evans 
Dave telling stories 
The pro lynx group preparing their argument. 
Listening to bird songs 
Drew 
Michael and Alex 
Measuring our pace 
Jacob 
Kevin watching birds 
Point Count Bird Survey 
The Nesting Robin at the Wildlife Building 
Summarizing bird survey data 
What we observed during the survey 
"Bird Food" 
Finding the right beak to fit the food. 
Sit on my knees please 
Sit on my knees please, part two 
Making paper airplanes to test the principals of flight 
Cam with his airplane 
Testing the airplanes 
Flying planes 
Lift 
Danny 
The tape girls in action 
Is it a bird tail or a wooden skirt? 
Testing the bird tail 
Building the bird wings 
Wrapping the bird tail 
Preparing the "bird" to fly 
All suited up 
Aaron 
Lisa 
Hiking up to the Upper Meadow for our campout 
Hiking to the Upper Meadow 
A mule deer in the upper meadow 
Greg with the peregrine falcon 
Looking at the new flight feathers (the lighter brown feathers) 
Lori and the red-tailed hawk 
More deer in the upper meadow (with raptors 100 feet away). 
The peregrine flapping his wings 
Campfire songs 
The girls all ready for bed 
The rest of the tent ready for bed. 
Time to get up! 
"Wake up little Suzy, wake up!" 
An early morning visitor-a nice wake up for ungulate day 
Ready to go after waking up from the campout 
"Deer" choosing their current need of food, water or shelter 
"Deer" finding their current need 
A dead deer becoming recycled into the ground. 
At the campfire ring in the Upper Meadow 
The camp site-girls on the lower left, boys on the upper right 
Some quiet reflection on the hike down 
Breakfast time 
Capturing and marking the new species, Kidneaus beaneus 
Marking the animals 
The population in their natural habitat 
Drawing a grassy meadow that grew after a fire 
Figuring out the size of our population 
Aaron Lindstrom from the Colorado Division of Wildlife 
A downy woodpecker (look closely in the center) 
Adjusting the receiver for the right frequency 
Listening to the signal and determing the direction 
"Where is it coming from???" 
Listening to a quiet signal-it's easier to hear volume changes 
Finishing up for the day 
Mia and Brenna at the Black and White Dinner 
Becky, Madeline and Andrew at the Black and White Dinner 
Kayla at the Black and White 
Katie and Michael 
Brittany and Jaclyn 
Jacob and Danny 
Drew 
Tim 
April and Sam 
Enjoying the dinner while the teachers rush around serving 
Catherine 
Andrew 
Lisa, Andrew, Kayla and Aaron 
Some of the Adult Leaders 
Dallas 
Alex 
Katie 
Playing volleyball in our spare time 
The pro team for the lynx debate 
The con team for the lynx debate 
The lynx debate 
The pro wolf team arguing their side of the debate. 
The con wolf side 
Early morning fishing 
Sam and Catherine 
Katie 
Exploring the aquatic ecosystem with waders 
Catching aquatic insects (i.e. fish food) 
Determing the pH of the water 
First time fly fishing for Andrew 
Madeleine 
Jackson Pond 
One of the rainbows we caught (and released) 
Getting the poles set up 
A young male mule deer 
Kurt and Mike from the Division of Wildlife electroshocking 
The backpack shocker 
A brook trout that had been shocked 
Measuring the length of the fish 
Weighing the fish 
Jacob with a brook trout 
Madeleine 
April 
Tim 
Cam 
Finding nymphs under a rock 
Looking for good and bad stream characteristics 
Bear Creek 
Michael 
Pulling fish scales off of salmon 
Looking at the fish scales to determie their age 
The rings on a fish scale (the dark lines are annual rings) 
The Wildlife Building 
The Barn 
Dallas 
Katie, Brenna, Jaclyn and Becky 
Cam 
Some of the SAR leaders dancing on the tables 
Lisa dancing and Aaron falling off of the table 
Alex and Jacob 
The Macarena 
YMCA 
Alex 
Danny 
Jacob 
Madeleine 
Tim 
The Whole Group! 
