Carantouan Annual Dinner Meeting
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
6:00pm – 8:30pm
Yanuzzi’s Restaurant (click here for directions)
235 Desmond Street
Sayre, PA 18840
Carantouan Greenway invites the public to attend their annual dinner meeting on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. The topic for the annual dinner meeting will be Researching Bobcats.
Bobcats are a special presence in New York. They are the only species of wild felines with a breeding population which are still roaming our state. The bobcat is a solitary, medium-sized cat with a short “bobbed” tail, a tawny brown coat, and an elusive lifestyle. Bobcats are a generalist species, meaning they have a varied range of prey, but the bulk of their diet is made up of small mammals such as mice and rabbits. Given their proclivity for nocturnal behavior and apprehension of humans, seeing a bobcat in the wild is a fairly exclusive accomplishment in the northeastern United States. This makes them a difficult species to study, and a great candidate for monitoring through passively activated trail cameras (also called game cameras).
Private landowners across New York generously allowed the DEC and Cornell University to deploy trail cameras on their properties, and with the addition of some cameras on state land, over 325 camera sites were active in New York over the past two years with the objective of monitoring bobcats, work which will aid in estimating bobcat abundance in the state. In addition, the DEC and Cornell University have deployed seventeen GPS collars on bobcats in the state to monitor their movement behavior and to help in estimating their overall abundance.
Join Carantouan Greenway’s annual dinner meeting to learn more about the research being conducted by Haley Turner, a Master’s student in the Department of Natural Resources and Environment at Cornell University who has been working alongside the DEC on this project since 2023.
The event takes place at 6:00 p.m. April 8, 2025 at Yanuzzi’s Restaurant, 235 Desmond Street, Sayre, PA. Reservations may be made by paying online (below), sending a check to Carantouan Greenway, P.O. Box 441, Sayre, PA 18840-0441, or by contacting Marty Borko at 607-565-2636. Cost is $25. The public is welcome to attend. Deadline for reservations is April 3, 2025.
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