Registration Requirements: Preregistration required.

Intended Audience: This program is designed for adults.

Program Description: Bobcats are elusive, charismatic, and ecologically important carnivores.  Habitat loss and over-harvesting lead to their extirpation from Ohio by the mid-1800s, but in recent years, they have mounted a comeback.  Beginning in 2015, Project Wild Coshocton (a research team at The Ohio State University Newark) began documenting the distribution of bobcats in east-central Ohio using trail cameras.  In this presentation, learn about factors that have enabled bobcats to return, their current status in the state, the valuable role they play in ecosystems, as well as efforts underway to improve habitat for bobcats. 

About the Presenter: Shauna Weyrauch is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University at Newark, where she teaches introductory biology and humanitarian engineering courses.  She earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biology from Wright State University, and her Ph.D. in EEOB from The Ohio State University.  Her research interests lie in applied ecology/conservation biology, with topics ranging from wetland restoration to the effects of habitat fragmentation on genetic diversity of amphibians, to improving habitat for bobcats by creating artificial den sites.  She co-founded Project Wild Coshocton in 2015, a project that seeks to document the recovery of Ohio’s bobcat population and learn more about the species’ habitat requirements.

What to Expect: This program is indoors, and participants will be seated for the majority of the time.  

Where to Meet: Registered participants will meet in the auditorium of the Visitor Center at our Rowe Woods location. (4949 Tealtown Road, Milford, OH 45150)

Cost: Ticket fees include daily admission.

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