Claudia, the refuge biologist, is on FMLA and is only working weekends and Mike Evans, refuge manager, is off-island doing firearms training, so we connected with Toby Hairston to get our traps and equipment from the refuge this morning. Toby works in Wildlife Services for the USDA and is on contract to the USFWS and other agencies to control nuisance wildlife, including mongoose engaged in turtle nest predation. Toby has been here for several years and is fun to talk with about wildlife biology and government bureaucracies. A major topic of conversation today was the new refuge road.
