Snow is here! And just in time, too. With winter break fast approaching, I took one last trip out to my site- and the scene that greeted me was a very different one than I had seen previously. All deciduous trees in sight were barren of leaves, save the few dead ones that clung to …
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November 23- Second Phenology Site
Over break, I spent a lot of time in the woods by my grandma’s old house in Elmore, Vermont(pictured left and below). They’re pretty different from those in Burlington- settled in between mountains, the soil is rockier, filled with boulders that peek out from the soil. It makes it hospitable to a different kind of …
November 3rd- Birdseye View Map of Sit Spot!
Hello all! Today, I bring you a map of my sit spot for this project. The coloration shows gradient levels, with orange being a hill and dark green being a valley. I wanted you to be able to get a lay of the land in more ways than one, so it felt important to include …
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Natural History Project- Phenology of Centennial Woods
Welcome! I’m Gabbie, and this will be my blog for the Natural History Phenology project. It will be detailing the seasonal changes of a small spot in Centennial Woods, one of the University of Vermont’s several research forests, located about a seven minutes walk North-East from the Aiken Center. This accessibility was only one reason …
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