Zapata has lots of photos, some good stories, and a homework assignment if you choose to do it to be shared on a VT State Blog

She will also provide some resources that can be used or reviewed by all age groups at the end of her presentation.

Zapata Courage graduated from the University of Vermont and has over twenty years of experience in the field and laboratory. She has worked in some incredible places. For example, Zapata worked in the Sierra Mountains of southern California collecting the tracks of mid-sized carnivores like a fisher, fox, and skunk. She also traveled to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota and set up base camps and trapped gray wolves to fit them with radio collars and used rockets nets to put radio collars on white-tailed deer and track them with radio telemetry after the relocation. Zapata also spent time outside of the United States and did tick collection for a research project in Kenya, East Africa and she helped raised and re-introduce the White Bearded Vulture to Kenya's Hells Gate National Park. Another project took her to Puerto Rico where she captured bats using mist nets. In Vermont, Zapata worked with the VT Fish and Wildlife Program in two positions: as a bat biologist and as an environmental educator at the Green Mountain Conservation Camps. Since 2014, she has been a District Wetland Ecologist with the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation's Wetlands Program. This position helps to protect Vermont's wetlands through regulation, education, restoration, and enforcement.

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Jan 19, 2025, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM

Jan 24, 2025, 7:30 PM

Jan 25, 2025, 7:30 to 9:30 PM