Vermont

Vermont Loon Recovery Project

Project Goal: 
Protect the future of loons, which had been down to just 7 breeding pairs in 1978.
Your Role: 
Contribute in a variety of ways: spend a day doing casual surveys; monitor a lake for an entire summer; become a rescuer; or build nesting rafts and warning signs.
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Website: 
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Vermont Forest Bird Monitoring Program

Project Goal: 
Provide baseline data from which population changes can be compared and collect habitat specific data across a range of forest types.
Your Role: 
Be able to identify forest birds by sight and sound, hike to selected survey sites and gather data.
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Website: 
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Vermont Vernal Pool Mapping Project

Project Goal: 
Learn where vernal pools occur to improve our knowledge of them and how best to protect these critical habitats.
Your Role: 
Use the interactive map to find candidate vernal pools, sign up, visit the pool to conduct some field work and submit your data.
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Website: 
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Vermont Atlas of Life

Project Goal: 
Improve and update knowledge and of biodiversity in Vermont; provide open access to biodiversity data; foster discovery, conservation, and education; and build a community of those interested in natural heritage.
Your Role: 
Look for species and share your sightings via eBird, iNaturalist, eButterfly or Odonata Central.
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Website: 
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Vermont Bumblebee Survey

Project Goal: 
Document the relative abundance and distribution of bumblebees (Bombus) and the eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica) across Vermont
Your Role: 
Select a site and monitor it for bee activity, collect some specimens as required and report your findings.
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Website: 
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