A Nose for Wild Things
These are no hounds. These are highly trained detection dogs used by biologists to canvass for animals, scat, rare plants and invasive weeds that are easily missed by humans.
Text and Photos by Kenneth R. Weiss.
In the News
The Nose Knows: How scent-detecting dogs locate fishers, lynx, and other hard-to-find wildlife species
Near Lolo Pass, along Montana’s border with Idaho, a light drizzle falls on larches lining steep mountainsides. Pepin, a tall, lanky, fawn-colored dog with a dark muzzle, paces in the back of the car…
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