Visiting Vermont

In late April/early May, GSS staff Kevin Stark, Katie Engelmann, and Zack Ansell spent 7 days conducting wetland field work throughout Vermont. Their travels took them to the Connecticut River Basin in the east, the Lake Champlain Basin in the northwest, and a small part of the Hudson River Basin in the southwest corner. The eastern and western basins are divided by the Green Mountains, which run north-to-south through the state. The GSS team was joined in the field by staff from the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation and the NWI regional coordinator. Together, they were able to observe a wide variety of wetlands from saturated, sloped wetlands in agricultural settings, bogs, black ash swamps, to semi-permanently flooded buttonbush shrub wetlands.