Vermont Business Magazine Saint Michael’s College Biology Professor Declan McCabe will host a family-friendly workshop on how to place and use trail cameras for wildlife photography.
McCabe, who employs trail cameras for research and learning in the College’s Natural Area, will have a number of examples of photographs he has captured locally to help inform the discussion.
Students and faculty, including McCabe, use trail cameras in the Natural Area to document mammal communities, study microhabitat usage, and gain insight into human impacts on mammal distributions in the area. The Natural Area spans more than 365 acres surrounding the academic campus.
The trail camera event will be held on Saturday, March 1, 2025, at 11 a.m. in the Roy Room (3rd floor of the Dion Family Student Center). McCabe’s talk is free and open to all ages and levels of experience.
If you go:
· What: "Capturing Wildlife on Trail Cameras"
· When: 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 1, 2025
· Where: Saint Michael’s College Dion Family Student Center 3rd Floor, Roy Room
· Cost: Free
· More information: smcvt.edu/events
About Declan McCabe
Professor Declan McCabe is an aquatic ecologist and longtime professor of Biology at Saint Michael’s College. He is an active collaborator of the College’s Institute for the Environment, and more recently, has become a manager of the Saint Michael’s Natural Area. McCabe was also instrumental in creating a minor in Aquatic and Marine Biology at Saint Michael’s.
McCabe is a columnist for Northern Woodlands Magazine and regularly contributes his writing to the syndicated natural history series called The Outside Story. In 2024, McCabe published his first book titled Turning Stones: Discovering the Life of Water, which explores the mysteries and life that can be found in a river and looks to the future at ways to preserve clean water for the next generation and beyond.
About Saint Michael’s College
Saint Michael's College, founded on principles of social justice and leading lives of purpose and consequence, is a selective, Catholic college just outside Burlington, Vermont, one of the country's best college towns. Located between the Green Mountains and Lake Champlain, our closely connected community guarantees housing all four years and delivers internationally respected liberal arts together with an innovative Purposeful Learning Program, preparing students for fulfilling careers and meaningful lives. Young adults here grow intellectually, socially, and morally, learning to be responsible for themselves, each other, and their world.
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