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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)

• Ecological Inventory (Lapin 1998)
  • Final Report
  • Maps

• Landscape Ecosystems (Lapin 2000)
  • Report

• Wildlife Habitat (Susan Morse 2000)
  • Final report
  • Maps
  • Photos

• Historical Geography (William Hegman and Ahn Lee 2008)
  • Final report
  • Land use timeline
  • photos

Wildlife Inventory and Monitoring Reports

• 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)
    • Appendix II
    • Appendix III
    • Appendix IV
    • Appendix V
  • 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.

  • 2012 Camera Trap, without photos
  • 2011 Camera Trap
    • Panorama photos of Camera Trap sites
  • 2007 Camera Trap
  • 2006 Camera Trap
  • 2005 Camera Trap
  • 2004 Camera Trap
    • Introduction
    • Photos

• 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)
  • 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)
  • Terrestrial Invertebrates 2000
    • First record of flightless carrion beetle
  • Terrestrial Invertebrates 2001
  • Terrestrial Invertebrates 2002

• Butterflies and Odonata (researcher: Donald Miller)
  • Butterflies and Odonata 1999
  • Butterflies and Odonata 2000
  • Butterflies and Odonata 2001
  • Butterflies and Odonata 2002
  • Butterflies and Odonata 2003

• Beetles (researcher: Steve Trombulak)
  • Beetles 2005