Description: In collaboration with the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department (VFWD), VCE created the Vermont Vernal Pool Atlas (VPAtlas), a state-wide repository of all things vernal pool. VPAtlas is a web-available database of vernal pool location data, monitoring data, and an interactive Community Science data-gathering tool that welcomes public use. Anyone can become a VPAtlas user and contribute to this community resource by recording their observations of vernal pool locations, indicator species, and more.
The VPAtlas is an outgrowth of the Vernal Pool Mapping Project, which VCE initiated in 2008 along with Arrowwood Environmental, during which we mapped the location of over 4,000 remotely-sensed “potential” pools, as well as several hundred field-verified pools. View The Vermont Vernal Pool Mapping Project Final Report.
Description: This dataset is derived from a project by the Vermont Center for Ecostudies(VCE) and Arrowwood Environmental(AE) to map vernal pools throughout the state of Vermont. AE and VCE are mapping locations of potential vernal pools throughout Vermont, and recruiting a corps of volunteers to field-verify the presence of these potential pools. In the process, we will develop a GIS layer of potential and known vernal pools, as well as a database populated with biological and physical attributes of each verified pool. With partial funding from the Vermont State Wildlife Grants Program, potential vernal pools will be identified using color infrared aerial photographs.
Copyright Text: Arrowwood Environmental and Vermont Center for Ecostudies
Description: This dataset is derived from a project by the Vermont Center for Ecostudies(VCE) and Arrowwood Environmental(AE) to map vernal pools throughout the state of Vermont. AE and VCE are mapping locations of potential vernal pools throughout Vermont, and recruiting a corps of volunteers to field-verify the presence of these potential pools. In the process, we will develop a GIS layer of potential and known vernal pools, as well as a database populated with biological and physical attributes of each verified pool. With partial funding from the Vermont State Wildlife Grants Program, potential vernal pools will be identified using color infrared aerial photographs.
Copyright Text: Arrowwood Environmental and Vermont Center for Ecostudies
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Description: The State of Vermont, in partnership with 25 organizations, agencies, businesses and non-profits, received funding in 2015 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) through the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP). This $16 million grant was the second largest in the country and is helping landowners in the Lake Champlain Basin of Vermont and New York invest in best conservation practices to improve water quality. The Lake Champlain RCPP provides financial and technical assistance to agricultural and forest landowners to develop and implement site-specific farm and forest projects that will directly improve water quality in streams and rivers that flow towards Lake Champlain. The RCPP funds
will also help conserve important and environmentally critical agricultural lands, and restore and protect wetlands crucial to attenuating sediment and nutrients and slowing floodwaters. These funds are committed through 2020, but may be extended, or new sources made available, in the future.
The Wetland Restoration Model Site Prioritization Map (this layer) builds on a model initially developed in 2007 ranked potential wetland restoration sites based on various physical characteristics of an area. The intent of this layer is to identify land that has potential to be a priority for wetlands restoration.