“Badgers in your Backyard – A glimpse into the ecology of an important grassland predator.”
This presentation will give you insight into the ecology of North American badgers, demonstrate how these fossorial carnivores can help us maintain and restore healthily grassland systems, and dispel a few common myths.
About the presenter:
Nicole Heim is a Wildlife Ecologist who has focused on understanding and conserving terrestrial carnivores. With over 15 years of experience, she has hands on experience researching cougars, bears, badgers, and wolverines.
In addition to the fierce and fuzzy critters, Nicole has focused her attention on understanding how natural and human land-use factors influence long-term population persistence carnivores and other terrestrial mammals throughout Rocky Mountains and along Alberta’s East Slopes.
February 19, 2019
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Nan Boothby Library
405 Railway St W, Cochrane, AB
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According to Alberta Environment and Parks:
- The badger was once common throughout the parkland and grassland regions south of the North Saskatchewan River, but its current distribution has been much reduced.
- Current range in Alberta extends roughly from the North Saskatchewan River south to the Montana border and from the foothills east to the Saskatchewan border.
- While distribution south of the North Saskatchewan River has been reduced, some limited expansion into territory north of the river has been documented.