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 Geri Vistein, a Conservation Biologist in Maine, will offer an interactive and visual presentation, "Coyote - America’s Songdog," at 7 PM on Wednesday, July 28, at Moore Auditorium on the Schoodic Education and Research Center campus.
The focus of Ms. Vistein's work is carnivores and humans ~ re-creating relationships that have been lost to us. Her talk will touch on coyote’s long history on the North American continent, coyote’s relationship with Native peoples and the European Americans, coyote’s complex relationship with the life of Maine’s ecosystems, and coyote’s relationship with us. She will speak about coexistence skills for those who raise domestic animals or crops. Ms. Vistein's interest in large carnivores has led her to involvement in research that includes a Grizzly Bear DNA Study in Northwestern Montana and a study of the Impacts of Highways on Bobcat Movements in the Green Mountains of Vermont. She has also participated in the research of prey species that are vital to carnivores: an Elk Calf Mortality Study in Northwestern Montana and a Snowshoe Hare Study in Yellowstone National Park, which was being conducted along with Canada Lynx research. In addition, she has been involved with a great deal of outreach within the human community educating people about carnivores, both here in the Northeast as well as in the West.
For more information, contact Gail Thompson at 207-288-1339. For
driving directions to SERC and to the Moore Auditorium, see the maps on
the "Driving Directions" page on the SERC Institute website.
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