Leonard Wildlife Preserve

Saturday, February 1

Union Pier, Michigan

Our wildlife search for tracks and scat in the snow melted away as very little snow remained from a snowfall a week earlier. Hike leader Gracie Fredenburg, Chikaming Open Lands’ education and outreach coordinator, saved the day with some great handouts and plenty of discoveries in the frozen dirt and bits of snow that hadn’t melted. Grace talked about the habitats of the Leonard Preserve wildlife and why they are found there. Probably the most interesting part of the hike was in the successionary forest on the north end of the property, where we found some mosses, fungi and scat. Twenty-six people showed up for this hike. (Photo by member Mark Piper.)