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Research at Tin Mountain Conservation Center
Tin Mountain Conservation Center’s mission includes five key environmental pillars: environmental education, nature programs, sustainability, camps and conservation research. In 2008, Tin Mountain established itself in the field of conservation research by conducting its first bird surveys (on its Rockwell Sanctuary), hosting a local Bio-Blitz (an intense period of biological surveying that attempts to record all the living species within a designated area), and continued its participation in National Audubon’s Annual Christmas Bird Count. In 2009, Tin Mountain was awarded several grants to perform trout habitat restoration efforts on local first and second order streams. The following year, the Research Internship program was formalized and Tin Mountain hosted four summer interns to conduct both avian and stream restoration research.
Since its inception, the program has evolved but research interns or technicians have joined Tin Mountain on an annual basis. The interns/technicians live on campus in a solar powered and heated cabin (construction completed in 2016). Individual years vary, but we often host two Stream Restoration Technicians who collect data and improve stream quality from early summer to early fall, an Avian Technician, who conducts research during the height of the breeding season, and a Resident Intern, who works on Tin Mountain’s research and conservation initiatives for an entire year.
As part of our Community Science initiatives, we contribute annually to Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count, to the North American Butterfly Association’s Butterfly Count in July, and to "Big Night”, a spring amphibian road-crossing initiative. Please find more detailed descriptions of these initiatives below.
