Erv Berglund uncovers nature’s secrets through the University of Minnesota Extension Offal Wildlife Watching Project.
Berglund understands the value of observation. He has a lifelong record of it. For the past 45 years, he’s kept a detailed journal of observations at his hunting shack —200 miles north of his home in Fridley—a small rustic haven that houses up to eight hunters at a time. With no road access or running water, it is an ideal place to quietly watch, wait and record what he sees in meticulous detail.
When friends or family try to recall what happened on a certain day, he gets out his carefully labeled books and opens one up to the right date. Now, Berglund has turned his watchful eyes, and trail cameras, to University of Minnesota Extension’s Offal Wildlife Watching Project, monitoring scavenger activity on deer gut piles to understand food webs.
PHOTO: Coyote. (Adobe Stock │ #340763004 – Redhaven Photography)
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