1. E1: Carnivore Community Mapping

2. This activity will help you to learn about the landscape features that carnivores use to meet their needs in our communities.

3. What is a landscape?

4. Landscape: The visible features of an area of land including natural landscape features and human-made features.
Natural landscape features: Includes mountains, hills, plains, lakes, oceans, streams, soils, forests, grasslands.
Human-made landscape features: Includes agricultural areas, buildings, fences, roads, or dams.

5. What landscape features do you see?

6. Can you identify those same features on this map?

7. Make a Carnivore Community Map
What is a community map?
A research tool that you can use to learn new information about your community.
For Coexisting with Carnivores, your community map will show the location of carnivore sightings near your neighborhoods and school.
Name: Jenny M.
Carnivore Sighted: Bobcat
Location: Behind my apartment building near North Fork Issaquah Creek
Location Description: Buildings near a forest and creek.
When: Morning, June 2017
Notes: The bobcat was running across the sidewalk into the woods.

8. Make a Carnivore Community Map
First, find the location where you saw a carnivore in your community on the map. Mark that location on the map.
Jenny’s carnivore sighting is the pink dot.

9. Make a Carnivore Community Map
Second, write a description about your carnivore sighting that has the details shown below. Fill in as much information as you can. If you forget some details, that is okay.
Name: Jenny M.
Carnivore Sighted: Bobcat
Location: Behind my apartment building near North Fork Issaquah Creek
Location Description: Buildings near a forest and creek.
When: Morning, June 2017
Notes: The bobcat was running across the sidewalk into the woods.

10. Make a Carnivore Community Map
You can include sightings that you learned about from your family, friends, or the news. Every time you learn about a new carnivore sighting, add to the map! You can do this until the end of the school year.
Name: Jenny M.
Carnivore Sighted: Bobcat
Location: Behind my apartment building near North Fork Issaquah Creek
Location Description: Buildings near a forest and creek.
When: Morning, June 2017
Notes: The bobcat was running across the sidewalk into the woods.