On Earth Day, a group of volunteers met at a parking lot next to Lake Dunmore in Salisbury to go on a field trip to a vernal pool. The expedition was organized by biologist Kevin Tolan from the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, who has been mapping and observing these vibrant ecosystems in the Vermont Vernal Pool Atlas and the Vermont Vernal Pool Monitoring Project. A vernal pool is a temporary, shallow wetland that appears in the spring and is a f…
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