ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION EQUIPMENT RESOURCES

Back Bay Wildlife Refuge


The following is a list of equipment that is available for group use while involved in educational activities on the Refuge. The equipment must be reserved when you schedule your visit. All materials must be formally checked out and in by a Refuge employee. A Refuge employee will have the reserved equipment out and ready for you upon your arrival. Equipment must be returned to the office at the end of your visit and be clean and in good condition.


Equipment DescriptionQuantity
Boxes, sea shells 3
Box, bones and skulls 1
Buckets (with tether rope) (#P01) 4
Compasses, pocket 7
Containers, large plastic (#P01) 6
Containers, small plastic (#B01, P01) 15
Electric outdoor work light 2
Hand trowels (#B01, B02) 1
Hydrometer (measures specific water gravity) 4
Ice cube trays, white (#P01) 14
Jars, small 20
Jars, large 8
Jars, baby food 12
Magnifying boxes, small 8
Magnifying glasses 3
Meter sticks (#B01, B02) 5
Microscope slides (with slide covers) 13
Nets, aluminum handled fish 4
Nets, insect (plus handle extensions) 2
Nets, red handled minnow (#P01) 16
Nets, seine (with poles) 1
Nets, large seine 2
Nets, strainer (#P01) 4
Nets, cloth terrestrial 8
Petri dishes, glass 11
Ping pong balls, white (#B02) 51
Plastic teaspoons, white (#P01) 200
Psychrometer (measures absolute humidity) 3
Salinity slide rule (use with hydrometer) 6
Screen sieve kits (one set of 4, and one of 5) (#B01) 2
Spade shovels 2
Styrofoam cooler, white (#B02) 1
Thermometers, soil 3
Underwater viewing scope 1
Wind meter (measures wind velocity) 2
Wire sea turtle egg cage (#B02) 1
Wooden stakes 14



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