Join trail cam expert Sally Naser for a wide-ranging discussion of trail cameras and their uses. This is a hybrid event. Join us in person in the Mayer Room or online via Zoom. No registration required in person; register for Zoom here. This program is co-sponsored by the Hanover Conservancy and the Howe Library.

Sally will offer lessons from the field and share some of her favorite images from her network of cameras. Learn how trail cams offer valuable information to scientists and land managers, and ask questions on how to get started in your own backyard!

Sally Naser is Conservation Restriction Stewardship Director, The Trustees of Reservations (MA) and owner of CRWildlifeCams.

"My parents instilled in me a deep respect for the natural world, from catching tadpoles and salamanders with my Mom in the pond behind our house to learning tree and wildflower ID on walks in the woods with my Dad in western Maryland. I first got interested in wildlife cameras back in 2007 when the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute partnered with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC), where I worked, to conduct a 3-year wildlife research study on the AT Corridor lands from Virginia to Pennsylvania to study the effect of human activity on wildlife.
 
My interest deepened after moving to Massachusetts to pursue my career in land conservation. Since 2013, I've been deploying wildlife cameras in the woodlands and wetlands of the Berkshires and north central MA. Within the first week of setting up a loaner Reconyx trail cam, I captured photos of  bobcat, beaver and a great blue heron and I was hooked! The thrill of scrolling through an SD card feels like Christmas morning when you’ve set up on a good spot, but there are also days where all you get are squirrels, chipmunks and/or blowing vegetation. Some might say I’m addicted, especially if I told you how many wildlife cameras I own (I lost count years ago), but for me, it’s a deep passion to document wildlife in its natural habitat with camera traps and share my captures with others, reminding us all that we are part of Nature."