Volume
63
Issue
1
Abstract
Offal Wildlife Watching is a participatory science project that engages deer hunters in wildlife research. The goal of the project is to better understand the ecology of scavenger species that visit deer gut piles across Minnesota. We asked hunters to deploy remote cameras at white-tailed deer gut piles that resulted from their freshly killed deer. Thus far 117 hunters have contributed images and recorded at least 49 different scavenger species. This project is a natural fit in Extension programs and can easily be adapted to other hunted species, biomes, and locations.
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Recommended Citation
Candler, E. M., Milanowski, G., Rager, A., & Bump, J. K. (2025). Offal Wildlife Watching: connecting hunters, wildlife researchers, and the public through participatory science. The Journal of Extension, 63(1), Article 13. https://open.clemson.edu/joe/vol63/iss1/13
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