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Ginny Apple holds a bear cub. Apple will present “Things that go bump in the night” Friday, March 14. (Submitted photo)
The Middlebury Land Trust will host Master Wildlife Conservationist Ginny Apple for her presentation, “Things That Go Bump in the Night,” Friday, March 14, at 6:30 p.m. in the Shepardson Community Center Auditorium at 1172 Whittemore Road in Middlebury. Admission is free and the presentation is suitable for all ages.
When the sun sets and night is upon us, all sorts of critters emerge from their hiding places and begin to forage, hunt – even play! From the opossum to the porcupine to the great horned owl, these creatures can teach us lots about the animal world if we just watch and listen. Apple will talk about these animals, their habits, their howls and their homes. There has been a lot of interest in owls, but not all are willing to venture forth at night, in the cold. Questions about what has been heard at night are frequent on the Middlebury Community Facebook page. This is your chance to ask the expert!
A native Texan, Ginny Apple was one of the first full-time women sportswriters in the country. She left the field mid-career to pursue a path in communications/public relations. Through the years she has hiked, climbed, kayaked, skied and poked her way through the outdoors and developed a passion for all things natural. A move to the middle of the woods in Barkhamsted 20 years ago brought her into an environment filled with bears and other wildlife. Living in a house surrounded by Peoples State Forest, she observes a large population of Black Bears and supplies field notes and photographs on them to DEEP bear biologists.
Her affinity for this magnificent creature led her out west to participate in a grizzly research mission in Montana and to become a Master Wildlife Conservationist with the State Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP). Her focused expertise is on at least a dozen Connecticut wildlife species including bears, bobcats, bald eagles, beavers and coyotes.
She also volunteers on numerous wildlife projects, including helping with necropsies on road kill animals and being an interpreter for Shepaug Bald Eagle Observatory and the Essex Steam Train’s Eagle Flyer. She chairs the Barkhamsted Conservation Commission, serves on the town Economic Development Commission, and volunteers or serves on the boards of a number of organizations. Just to keep her creative juices percolating, she has a side business, Murder Without Pain, for which she writes murder mystery games based on historical subjects and then runs them at country inns and corporate parties
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