Dr Karen Wilson invites the Vital Signs Community to join her statewide crayfish survey. She put her instructions on video. Check out the video, go deploy your trap or grab your kick net, and add your found & not-found crayfish observations to the Vital Signs website.
Thanks to students from Old Orchard Beach, Kennebunk, Portland, and Wiscasset for leading the charge on this challenge!
Details for reporting to Dr Wilson
In addition to entering a COMPLETE "Vital Signs Species & Habitat Survey," Karen requests the following from you:
Clear, fabulous evidence photos in your observation OR a male voucher specimen humanely dispatched by freezing, then sent to me still frozen or preserved in alcohol (sent to my home so the samples don't sit in the school mail room)
A simple description of habitat (could be as simple as: sand, muck, or cobble; pool, riffle, or lake) - put this in your Field Notes
A simple description of abundance (rare - hard to find, common - found several easily, abundant - nibbling toes, or even absent (important information!) - fill out the abundance field on the Habitat Tab, and put additional information in your Field Notes