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RIVER OTTER
When Andrew Rutter took a full-time wildlife ecologist position at the Lake County Forest Preserves in 2017, he expected his work studying river otter ecology would come to an end. That’s not the case. One of Rutter’s roles here is to expand the monitoring program of semiaquatic mammals, which includes recovering North American river otters (Lontra canadensis), a species that’s becoming more abundant in Lake County. LAK E COUNTY FOR E ST PRE S E RVES
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