Adopt-a-Forest Guide

Adopt-a-Forest Guide
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Contents - Wildlife
During your cleanup you may see some of the inhabitants of the Michigan forests you are helping. How many of these do you know?

Eastern Mole Red Fox

Star-nosed Mole Gray Fox

Masked Shrew Coyote

Arctic Shrew Gray Wolf

Water Shrew Lynx

Least Shrew Bobcat

Short-tail Shrew Woodchuck

Little Brown Bat Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel

Keen myotis Least Chipmunk

Silver-haired Bat Eastern Chipmunk

Eastern Pipistrelle Red Squirrel

Big Brown Bat Eastern Gray Squirrel

Red Bat Northern Flying Squirrel

Hoary Bat American Beaver

Black Bear Moose

Raccoon Deer Mouse

American Marten Southern Bog Lemming

Fisher Red-Backed Vole

Short-tailed Weasel Meadow Vole

Long-tailed Weasel Pine Vole

Least Weasel Common Muskrat

Mink Meadow Jumping Mouse

Otter Woodland Jumping Mouse

American Badger Common Porcupine

Striped Skunk Snowshoe Hare

Eastern Cottontail

White-tailed Deer

Contents
Program Background
How to Adopt-a-Forest
How to Organize a Successful Cleanup
Sample Flyer
What to Bring and Wear
Safety
Financial Support
Trash Disposal
Contacts to Make
Follow-up Suggestions
Progress Report
T-shirt Order Form
Acknowledgments