(August 2017) Project Wild Coshocton has concluded its 2017 field season. 2017 marks the first official year of data collection for the project, through which we seek to track changes in the bobcat population of east-central Ohio over time. Our field season spanned from mid-February to mid-July, and during that time our trail cameras collected nearly three hundred thousand pictures. With the hard work of our dedicated team of undergraduate research assistants, we are recording information from these pictures in our database of Coshocton and Holmes County wildlife. In the meantime, here are a few statistics summarizing the 2017 field season and offering a glimpse into “life on the road” with Project Wild Coshocton!
| 20 | Number of weeks of camera-trapping. |
| 27 | Number of field sites. Each field site was surveyed over a period of four weeks with a cluster of four trail cameras. |
| 7 | Number of undergraduate research assistants who worked on the project during the Spring and/or Summer Semesters of 2017. |
| 11 | Number of times we dined at Subway in Coshocton, our most popular lunch destination. |
| 3050 | Number of miles traveled during the 2017 field season. (Note this is greater than the distance across the United States; the linear distance from Washington D.C. to San Francisco is just over 2800 miles!) |
| 23 | Number of times Dr. Weyrauch’s iPod played “Pour Some Sugar on Me” during our travels around Coshocton and Holmes Counties (keep in mind the number above, indicating the significant amount of travel time, and factor in Dr. Weyrauch’s inordinate fondness for Def Leppard). |
| 288,368 | Total number of photos collected in 2017. |
| 477 | Gigabytes of disk space for the above photos. |
| 14 | Number of sites with bobcats! |
