Monarch caterpillar photo by Derek Ramsey and licensed under creative commons by Wikipedia. By Ellen Gawarkiewicz - Monarchs are one of Vermont’s most recognizable butterflies. Their distinctly patterned orange and black wings are both well known and loved; making them the state butterfly of Vermont, as well as six other states [1]. There are many commonly… Continue reading If you give a monarch some milkweed
Photo by Griffin Dahl, around a dried up vernal pool in Raven Ridge Natural Area. By Ellen Gawarkiewicz - While hiking below a vast dolostone face within the Raven Ridge Natural Area on the border of Hinesburg, Monkton, and Charlotte, a bright orange figure caught my eye waddling along a patch of leaf litter. The… Continue reading Newt Tales
By Ellen Gawarkiewicz - "Is that a bird?” asks one of my fellow Field Naturalist Interns, as we stand on an outcropping at Raven Ridge Natural Area on the border of Hinesburg, Monkton, and Charlotte, Vermont. When I told him that the song he was hearing was that of… Continue reading Vermont’s State Musician
Suppose you were a mink in need of breakfast in Burlington. Where would you go? Alicia Daniel, Field Naturalist for the city of Burlington and 1988 graduate of the FNEP program, could probably tell you. Follow Alicia (and the mink) in the recent Burlington Free Press article "Burlington's wild heart," written by FNEP graduate Kerstin Lange.
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