Welcome to the photo gallery of the Wildlife Biology group from High
Potential Week of 2008. These are pictures that were taken by the
students and leaders throughout the week. To view an image, just click on
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Mount Evans Outdoor Lab - Wildlife Biology - GT Week - June 9-13,2008
Laura fills out her trivia questions
Students drop off their luggage
Carly uses her mom's back to write trivia questions
Lisa waiting to greet students
Erin with her mom
The whole group waits
Wildlife and Astronomy on the bus
Ms. Sandy Stevens, the principal of Outdoor Lab, greets us when we arrive
Students picking up their luggage
A juvenile bald eagle that the teachers and leaders saw.
Playing the name game
"Never have I ever..."
The Human Knot is tangled up
Steph attempts to free herself from the human knot
Sit on my knees please....a lesson in team work
A hummingbird
Meeting our "real live predators" - Tonka and Milo
Tonka hunts for a ground squirrel
Trying to eat spinach with our front teeth
Aaron showing how our teeth our designed to eat certain things, an adaptation
"Come a little closer" - a lesson in carrying capacity
A group discusses how to determine how many mountain lions live in the Evergreen area
Carly, Jenny and Laura work out the mountain lion problem
Clipping grass to determine how many mule deer the area can support
Amanda, Elizabeth, Izzy, Allison and Aaron
Clipping grass
The Dodge Lodge
Laura
Steph reads a quote during flag ceremony
The Wildlife group brings the flags down
The Wildlife Group after the flag ceremony
Steph cleans the table during hopper duty
Carly waits while the floors get mopped
Steve Lee, an astronomy teacher, tells the story of how he met the Alligator Woman
Destiny and Laura do some improv
Elizabeth working with a partner during improv
The leaders act out the story of Jeremy and Jeremy
Mule Deer we saw on Monday night in front of the barn
The mule deer moving up a hill
The group looking at a dead bat found in front of the barn earlier in the day
The dead bat, a predator
Just some of the math we used to figure out how many mountain lions the area could support
Erin listens to bird songs, making notes in her bird book
Janie, Jessica and Izzy walk 300 meters to the next point on the Point Count Survey
The view from the Mountain Ecology trail
Some caterpillars along the Mountain Ecology Trail
An aspen grove on the Mountain Ecology trail
Destiny and Steph looking and listening for birds during the Point Count Survey
Janie, Jessica and Izzy
Tarryn records what birds she sees and hears
Taryn makes a list of the birds her group saw or heard
Allison, Jenny and Janie choose beaks for the bird beak relay
An eye dropper doesn't work too well to eat worms
Dylan, Erin, Steph and MacKenzie
Mt. Rosalie, the boy's bunkhouse
Watching Aaron demonstrate Bernoulli's principle
Janie demonstrating Bernoulli's Principle - the ping pong ball doesn't get blown out of the air stream because the slower moving air on top of the ball pushes harder than the fast moving air underneath the ball.
Taryn demonstrating another example of Beroulli's Principle.
Schafer demonstrates yet another example of Bernoulli's Principle
The paper doesn't fall.....
Carly working on the bird tail for Andrew
Destiny working on the tail
Jenny, Laura, Destiny, Erin and Madeline
Andrew carefully inspects everyone's work to make sure he won't plummet to his death
Andrew showing of his brand new tail
Izzy and Lisa seal the edges of the bat/bird wing
Some last minute adjustments to Andrew's new body parts
The final touch for Andrew's new life as a bird/bat
Andrew poses for the camera
The group ready to hike up for our campout
Hiking up to the Upper Meadow for the campout.
A deer we saw on the way to the Upper Meadow
Another one of the deer.
Golden Banner flowers
The girls' tent in the Upper Meadow
Amanda
Andrew and Kayla
We wait by the "campfire" for the raptor presentation
Tristan, a red-tailed hawk
Tristan flapping his wings
Tristan and Pam
Tristan on the ground
Pam trying to fluff up Tristan's chest feathers to show their thickness
Dylan, Pam, Tristan and Izzy
The moon above the upper meadow
Brian, our campfire entertainment
Singing around the campfire
Janie, Steph, Mackenzie and Erin singing
Aaron leading us in the beaver song
The campfire
The girls tucked nicely into their sleeping bags
Rise and shine!
The view from the tent in the morning
Much Better than Oh Deer
The Breeding Grounds for the Deer
Wrapping up the game and discussing how predators are needed to keep the deer population in balance.
Looking east from the Upper Meadow with the outhouse in view.
Aspens in the Upper Meadow
Deer on the hike down from the Upper Meadow
The view of Mt. Evans (on the right)
Walking from the bunkhouse to breakfast Wednesday morning
A grizzly bear in the Wildlife Building
Sneaking up on Kidneus beaneus, a brand new species of ungulate.
Kidneaus beaneus in it's habitat
Madeline marking the captured Kidneus beaneus
Aaron Linstrom with the Colorado Division of Wildlife demonstrating how Radio Telemetry works
Listening to Aaron Linstrom
Dylan turning the receiver to determine where the signal is coming from
Madeline and Steph with the receiver
The radio collar we found
An elk leg bone
Carly and Schafer
Erin, Steph and Mackenzie enjoying their luau dinner
Madeline, Schafer, Taryn and Carly at the luau
Mackenzier, Erin and Steph in the Conga Line
Elizabeth enjoying the conga line
Madeline, Taryn, Kayla, Schafer and Carly dancing
Alison, Janie and Jenny
Dylan dancing the Electric Slide
Alison and Janie dancing to the Chicken Dance
Laura dancing
Izzy dancing
Jessica dancing the Boot, Scoot and Boogy
The pro elk team during the debate
The con elk team conferring about questions to ask
The con elk team giving their closing statement
The con wolf team
Dylan fishing at Jackson Pond on Thursday morning
Andrew trying to warm up
Taryn fishing
Aaron releasing the rainbow trout that Dylan caught
Alison at Jackson Pond
Laura, Erin and Mackenzie
Leah
Elizabeth fishing
Alison and Janie
Fishing at Jackson Pond
Leah in the car on the way to the Mt. Evans State Wildlife Area
The Dining Hall
The Barn
Greg, Nick and Paul with the Colorado Division of Wildlife
Standing at the edge of Bear Creek
Nick Electrofishing
Paul Electrofishing while Greg follows behind with a bucket for the fish.
Some of the Brown Trout we caught
Looking at the fish
One of the Brown Trout we caught being measured and weighed
Paul recording data on the fish
Madeline measuring a fish
A fish being weighed
Dylan measuring a fish
Jessica measuring a fish
Jenny measuring a fish
Taryn measuring a fish
Destiny recording the data on each fish
Izzy weighing a fish
Watching the fish be measured and weighed
Listening to Paul on the side of Bear Creek
Looking for aquatic insects on a rock from the stream
A bull snake that a group found on the road
Dylan looking for aquatic insects
Steph and Erin wading in Bear Creek
Mackenzie in Bear Creek
Madeline, Mackenzie, Schafer, Carly, Jessica and Izzy on a small island in the middle of Bear Creek
Alison
Dylan taking off the waders and eating a rice krispie treat
Laura taking a bad step and falling into the creek.
Laura warming up on the side of the creek with Jessica and Elizabeth
Erin, Madeline and Steph
Bear Creek
Kayla, Andrew, Aaron and Lisa
The group at Beer Creek
Summarizing all the amazing things we did during the week
Elizabeth, Taryn, someone from another group, Carly and Schafer waiting for the doors to open at the Black and White dinner
Andrew and Kayla
The "international crowd" enjoying dinner at Chez Evans, a "highly rated restaurant by Zagat"
Aaron, one of the waiters at Chez Evans
Lisa, a waitress at Chez Evans
Izzy, a Russian millionaire, enjoying his milk
Lisa and Aaron dancing
Steph, Lisa and Erin dancing the Can-Can
The Adult Leaders dancing the Can-Can
All of the Adult Leaders
The Wildlife Group
All of the Teachers
Lisa and Aaron
Kathryn Beisner, the storyteller on Thursday night
Schafer looking at fish scales with Destiny and Laura looking on.
The Wildlife Biology group (minus Amanda and Dylan)
Jumping up for Wildlife
Mimicing our favorite animal from the week
The Creative Dramatics performance on Friday afternoon
Wildlife explaining to the remainder of the students what we did throughout the week
