Colby Hill Ecological Project Research Reports

Overview Reports

Executive Summary (CHEP project manager, Marc Lapin)
CHEP project manager and ecologist, Marc Lapin, conducts phenology research on VFF’s Anderson Guthrie-Bancroft parcel.
- Executive Summary, 2001 (Lapin)
- Executive Summary, 2004 (Lapin)

Historical Geography (William Hegman and Ahn Lee 2008)
Water Quality Monitoring (Addison County River Watch Collaborative)
Water quality monitoring began in 2021 in two of the watersheds (Beaver Meadow Brook and Isham Brook, which are headwater tributaries of the New River) in which Vermont Family Forests owns land and in which CHEP research occurs. In 2022, monitoring expanded to include Cold Brook, in whose watershed VFF had recently purchased 125 acres, in addition to substantial land within the watershed that lies within VFF’s Guthrie-Bancroft parcel (where most CHEP research occurs).
- 2022 Water Quality Report
- 2021 Water Quality Report

Small Mammals (researchers: Jeremy Hertzig, Jan Decher, Chris Gray, Nelish Pradhan, Nick Tepper)
- 2019 Small Mammal Report (Tepper)
- 2018 Small Mammal Report (Tepper)
- 2016 Small Mammal Report (Pradhan)
  CHEP mammal researcher, Nick Tepper, weighs an Eastern chipmunk during monitoring at VFF’s Anderson Guthrie-Bancroft parcel.
- 2012 Small Mammal Report (Decher, Gray, Kilpatrick)
- 2000-2011 Small Mammal Species Accumulations
- 2001-2011 Small Mammal Microhabitat Means
- 2011 Small Mammal Report
  - Data Example
- 2001-2011 Small Mammal Microhabitat Means
- 2007 Small Mammal Report (Decher, Kilpatrick)
- 2006 Small Mammal Report (Decher, Kilpatrick)
  - Maps
  - Tables
- 2005 Small Mammal Report (Decher, Kilpatrick)
  - Figures
- 2002 Small Mammal Report (Decher, Kilpatrick)
- 2001 Small Mammal Report (Decher, Kilpatrick)
  - Figure 1. Small Mammal Survey Locations
  - Figure 2. Cumulative Increase in Small Mammals
- 2000 Small Mammal Report (Decher, Kilpatrick)
- 1998 Small Mammals Report (Hertzig)

Wildlife Tracking Transect (researcher: Greg Borah)
- 2002-2011 Wildlife Transect Summary

Camera Trap
Bobcat recorded by remote wildlife camera at VFF’s Anderson Wells Farm parcel, 2018.

Reptiles and Amphibians (researcher: Jim Andrews)
CHEP amphibian monitoring at VFF’s Anderson Guthrie-Bancroft parcel.
- James S. Andrews and Erin Talmage “Phenological Differences in Wood Frog and Spotted Salamander Egg-Mass Onset and Peak Accumulation,” Northeastern Naturalist 28(4), 456-461, (17 November 2021).
- 2000-2020 Herps Report
- 2000-2018 Herps Report
- 2000-2016 Herps Report
- 2000-2014 Herps Report
- 2000-2012 Herps Report
- 2009-2010 Herps Report
- 2008 Herps Report
- 2007 Herps Report
- 2006 Herps Report
- 2005 Herps Report
- 2004 Herps Report
- 2001 Herps Report
- 2000 Herps Report

Forest Birds (researchers: Peter Meyer, Glenn Lower, Barry and Warren King)
- 2022 Forest Bird Report, Data (Meyer, Lower)
- 2020 Forest Bird Report, Data (Meyer, Lower)
- 2019 Forest Bird Report, Data (Meyer, Lower)
- 1998-2018 Forest Bird Summary Report (King)
- 2018 Forest Bird Report (King)
- Special Report: The Status of Vermont Forest Birds, 2017: A Quarter-Century of Monitoring, by Steve Faccio of the Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Steve established the transect for the CHEP forest bird survey, and the report incorporates 18 years of CHEP data.
  Barry and Warren King conduct forest bird monitoring on VFF’s Anderson Guthrie-Bancroft parcel.
- 2017 Forest Bird Report (King)
- 2016 Forest Bird Report (King)
- 2015 Forest Bird Report, Data (King)
- 2014 Forest Bird Report, Data (King)
- 2013 Forest Bird Report, Data (King)
- 2011 Forest Bird Data (King)
- 1998-2010 Forest Bird Summary Report (King)
- 1998-2009 Forest Bird Summary Report (King)
- 2008 Forest Bird Report (King)
- 2007 Forest Bird Report (King)
- 2006 Forest Bird Report (King)
- 2005 Forest Bird Report (King)
- 2004 Forest Bird Report (King)
- 1998-2003 Forest Bird Summary Report (King)
- 2001 Forest Bird Report (King)
- 2000 Forest Bird Report (King)
- 1999 Forest Bird Report (King)

Grassland Birds at Wells Farm (researcher: Marc Lapin)
- 2015-2018 Summary Report

Terrestrial Invertebrates (researchers: Jeffrey Collins, Mark Ward, and Susan Young)