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Most recently I attended a trip with Conservation Volunteers Australia. I spent the weekend with a few other students helping a researcher set up traps for Mahogany Gliders, another critically endangered species with a disjointed population size of around 1,500 individuals in the wild. They are like the flying squirrels of Australia. The researcher is trying to monitor their population size and assess how a power line easement affects their dispersal patterns. I took great interest in this because it is an ecological study (I study ecology at Boulder). We unfortunately didn't catch any individuals during my weekend but during the following weekend they caught three, which were microchipped and released. The power company is planning on widening the easement, which already fragments their habitat, to construct even larger power lines. I spent a lot of time with the researcher discussing the issues this will cause. It is sad that this could all be avoided if they were to bury the lines... this solution would help restore the habitat rather than degrade it further, but it isn't the most cost-effective decision.
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