Suspicious package detonated on USU campus was a wildlife research tracking collar

LOGAN, Utah (ABC4) — The suspicious device that caused an evacuation of the Old Main Building on USU campus has been identified as a wildlife research tracking collar.

According to USU, a university employee brought the wildlife telemetry collar, which is used for field research, and placed it outside the building so that undergraduate students could practice telemetry, a practice where researchers collect data from remote sources.

At 2:45 p.m. on Tuesday, an evacuation order was issued for the Old Main Building after an employee notified USU police about "a suspicious item placed in a suspicious manner near the exterior of Old Main," according to the university.

Police officers located the device and determined it was non-explosive. However, usually the Explosive Ordinance Disposal Squ