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Wildlife tent features animal
track display as game
for guests
 By
Jenny Jones
Features Editor
Guests of Spring Fest will have the opportunity
to observe animal tracks in the Forestry and Natural Resource's tent.
The Wildlife Society will display rubber animal
tracks, or prints, so that children and guests can get experience with
animal identification.
"Kids always get involved; they think it's kind
of neat," said Keith Wildeman, president of the Wildlife Society and
senior in the School of Agriculture.
The Forestry and Natural Resource tent will be
located outside of the Food Science Building. All forestry activities
will take place on Saturday and are open to anyone who wishes to attend.
The goal of the animal track identification is
to help people realize that there are a variety of animals in Indiana,
Wildeman said.
"Just by little bits or signs you can tell what
kind of animals we have; you don't have to actually see the animals,"
Wildeman said.
In addition to the animal track identification,
the Wildlife Society will also give out pinecones that have been rolled
in peanut butter, which serve as bird feeders.
Also in the tent will be seedling tree sales, hosted
by the Society of American Foresters Student Chapter. The trees will
be on sale all day Saturday and possibly Sunday for $2 to $3 each. Money
raised from the sale will benefit the Society of American Foresters
Student Chapter.
Students of the club have been growing these trees,
which include white and red oaks, red buds and dogwoods, in the greenhouse
since December as part of a club project.
"(The project) is primarily to give them experience
— to get them to learn how to treat seeds," said George Parker,
faculty adviser for the Society of American Foresters.
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