This is quite a delayed post- but I guess late is better than never! On January 16th (Happy New Year!), my friend Katie and I took a day trip down to Austin to collect genetic samples at a couple of previously surveyed sites. There was a couple inches of snow which had fallen 3 to 4 days before which was perfect for what we were trying to accomplish! We managed to collect 25 fecal samples and 1 hair sample (in about 4 hrs....) at KPS which is about 49 km from our established Indian Valley site (OIV). We also managed to make it to another two sites, KSC and RSC, almost 2 km apart from each other, 5 km away from KPS and 52 km away from OIV, where we were able to find burrows and pygmy rabbit sign between the two sites! Making them one large site! We also collected 35 fecal samples from KSC/RSC. We saw at least 10 pygmy rabbits today as well! Most at KSC although one came out of a burrow right next to us while we were collecting a fecal sample at KPS. Although it took much longer than I expected to collect fecal samples, it was a pretty great day overall! Can't wait to get back out there already!
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