{"id":64,"date":"2025-04-28T20:26:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T00:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/?p=64"},"modified":"2025-04-28T20:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T00:26:43","slug":"bioblitz-and-nature-walk-at-salmon-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/jbenne10\/2025\/04\/28\/bioblitz-and-nature-walk-at-salmon-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Bioblitz and Nature Walk at Salmon Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Spring is here, the woods are alive with new growth and the city nature challenge has begun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve never been to salmon hole before, but I loved the way the river looked when we went there for the Winooski mills lab, so after class, I walked down to the river with a friend of mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first thing I noticed was that the ground was covered in these colonies of garlic mustard, Alliaria petiolata<\/em>. It’s an invasive weed that grows prolifically on disturbed ground such as roadsides.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The river looked beautiful, it was a deep blue-green from the sediment. I wonder if this is a healthy color for the river, from my time spent in Maine, I’ve learned that this rich color means that there’s life in the water.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I encountered a bunch of species during my trip, some really common ones like American robin, garlic mustard as mentioned before, lots of moss, but one that I was pretty surprised to find was wild strawberry, I found it nestled between two great slabs of limestone. Another cool thing was that I found some racoon tracks preserved in sediment in a puddle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One final thing I noticed was that fiddleheads were starting to emerge. These I believe are sensitive ferns since I saw some sensitive fern sporophylls nearby.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spring is here, the woods are alive with new growth and the city nature challenge has begun! I’ve never been to salmon hole before, but I loved the way the river looked when we went there for the Winooski mills lab, so after class, I walked down to the river with a friend of mine. … <\/p>\n

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