VCE Hosts First Community Science Teacher Workshop
…one thing in common: we posed and investigated them with science educators during VCE’s first ever Community Science Teacher Education Workshop. VCE EcoAmeriCorp member Abbie Castriotta and Becky Proulx using…
Naturalists Help the Vermont Atlas of Life on iNaturalist Build Biodiversity Big Data in 2020
…‘research grade’ when it has: a date, latitude and longitude coordinates, photos or sounds, and the community agrees on the identification to species level. We have over 355,000 research grade…
Vermont Atlas of Life on iNaturalist Builds Biodiversity Big Data in 2018
…has: a date, latitude and longitude coordinates, photos or sounds, and the community agrees on the identification to species level. We have nearly 175,000 research grade observations comprising over 4,000…
Field Guide to June 2019
…morphological change. Pitcher Plant flowering in Mollie Beattie Bog, Vermont. / © K.P. McFarland – www.kpmcfarland.com There is a complex web of life living within each pitcher. The base of…
Vermont State Butterfly Proposed for Threatened Species Listing
…rule is subject to a 90-day public comment period. During this time, anyone can share their perspective on the proposal directly with the agency. The public comment period closes on…
VCE in the News
http://www.wcax.com/content/news/Wildlife-Watch-In-search-of-Bicknells-Thrush-486604451.html…
Proposed Rule Threatens to Narrow Endangered Species Protections
…overview of the Endangered Species Act: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/endangered_species_act_(esa) Learn more about the Endangered Species Act from the World Wildlife Federation: https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/the-endangered-species-act-q-a https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/celebrating-50-years-of-the-endangered-species-act Explore legal analyses of the proposed rule: https://bbklaw.com/resources/la-0501325-federal-wildlife-agencies-propose-rescinding-definition-harm-under-endangered-species-act https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2025/04/redefining-harm-change-proposes-removing-habitat-modification…
Field Guide to June 2018
…after a rainstorm in Eshqua Bog, Hartland, Vermont. / © K.P. McFarland – www.kpmcfarland.com There are about 47 species in the orchid genus Cypripedium, the Lady’s Slipper. Lucky for me…
Henry Dandeneau
…monitors.” ___________________________ The Julie Nicholson Community Science Award honors Julie Nicholson’s extraordinary passion and commitment to birds and wildlife conservation through her many years of tireless work as a community…
Live Updates: Tracking Upland Sandpiper Trans-hemispheric Migration
…said that the birds “commit suicide” by flying head first at very high speeds into the lake. For the twenty-five local indigenous communities in the region, this act of sacrifice…
