{"id":3110,"date":"2016-09-20T22:30:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T03:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2016-09-20T22:30:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T03:30:54","slug":"tracking-wildlife-on-the-bayou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=3110","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Wildlife on the Bayou"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boys Scouting Part III<\/h3>\n

September 20, 2016<\/p>\n

Boy Scout Paul Hung rallied his troop for the third floating inventory of the banks of Buffalo Bayou on a recent Saturday morning. Hung is documenting the tracks of wildlife as an Eagle Scout service project, and his fellow scouts in Sam Houston Council Troop 55 are helping.<\/p>\n

Hung and other scouts have so far found over 130 tracks of animals including raccoon, beaver<\/a>, possum, coyote,\u00a0grey fox, bobcat, great blue heron, egret, otter, nutria, wild boar, and others. The tracks are being plotted on a map, and the information will be published as a pamphlet with the help of Save Buffalo Bayou, which is the beneficiary of the project.<\/p>\n

Anyone who wishes to donate to help Paul Hung publish his Buffalo Bayou wildlife pamphlet can do so here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About a dozen Boy Scouts and adult observers gathered with their Boy Scout wooden canoes at the Memorial Park boat launch at Woodway<\/a> Sept. 10. It was a steamy morning, and they planned to paddle past Memorial Park<\/a> and the Hogg Bird Sanctuary<\/a> all the way to Lost Lake in Buffalo Bayou Park<\/a>. Hung handed out clipboards and gave instructions for identifying and photographing the tracks and recording their location using a compass app on a cell phone. Nearby was the wooden box, built and recently installed by Troop 55 Boy Scout Saswat Pati<\/a>, containing reusable bags for picking up trash on the bayou.<\/p>\n

Read the rest of this story.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Members<\/a>

Members of Boy Scout Troop 55 headed downstream from the Woodway boat launch in Memorial Park to inventory animal tracks on the banks of Buffalo Bayou. Photo Sept. 10, 2016<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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