Bog Inhabitants

October 2025:  Interesting organisms found during Fall Stewardship, Water Testing, and Fungi Forays

May 2025:  Other organisms found during the spring benthic macroinvertebrates collection & Atlantic White Cedar plantings

April 2025:  Northern Spring Peepers Pseudacris crucifer  call throughout Bog 1  

October 2024:  Black Banded Sunfish, Predacious Diving Beetle, Helgrammite (Dobsonfly larvae), and various Benthic Macroinvertebrates from Bog 2.  

September 2024:  Crayfish, Glass Eel Elver, & Painted Turtle from Bog 1 & 2.  Northern Fence Lizard from JHS Trail.

May 2024:  Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) in Bog 1 on 5/3/24

January 2024:  Ducks enjoy the extra water in Bog 2 after 2.47" of rain on 1/9/24

December 2023:  Ducks and Canada Goose in Bog 1

April 2023:  Deer and Barred Owl on the Culvert Trail Cam

November 2022: After finding an abandoned trail cam in the bogs, Mr. Gates reviewed the photos taken by the camera and found evidence of these Pine Barrens inhabitants from November 2018 through May 2019.

• Coyote (Canis latrans)

• Grey Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)

• Skunk

• White tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

• Woodchuck

• Opossum

• Raccoon