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Herp Update: Fundraiser, Late Season Activity – December 2, 2025
December 2, 2025 Our Annual Fundraiser has reached the Halfway Point We have raised over $12,000 since we began our annual fundraiser on November 11. This is just short of halfway to our goal of $25,000. Thanks again to all of you who…VT Herp Atlas Annual Fundraiser 2026
November 11, 2025 ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ …Herp Update: Printed Atlases Available, Amphibian Migration – October 24, 2025
October 24, 2025 Printed Copies of the 2025 Update of our Vermont Reptile and Amphibian Atlas are now Available! We just picked up copies of our 2025 Update of The Vermont Reptile and Amphibian Atlas from the printer. It is exciting for us…Herp Update: Dead Creek Wildlife Festival, Snake Migration – October 3, 2025
October 2, 2025 The Turtles of Vermont at Dead Creek this Saturday Herpers, tomorrow, Saturday, October 4, I will be talking turtle at the Dead Creek Wildlife Festival in Addison. From 10 to 11 AM, I will be giving a PowerPoint presentation on…Herp Update: Field Trip, Map Turtle, Frog & Cecropia, Habitats & Highways – September 23, 2025
September 23, 2025 Join us this Saturday, September 27, for a Field Trip Herpers, I hope some of you will join us this Saturday, September 27th from 9-12 for a reptile and amphibian field trip. Farm and Wilderness asked us to provide this…Herp Update: Snakes, Salamanders, Maine Herps, and Instagram – September 6, 2025
September 6, 2025 Recent Herp Activity Over the last month, we have received a few reports of Common Watersnakes found quite a distance from water. It seems likely that their normal foraging areas (wetlands) dried out, and they are hiding out while waiting…Herp Update: Interesting Herp Reports, Metamorphosing Frogs, Survey Work – August 6, 2025
August 6, 2025 Recent Herp Activity We have received some very interesting reports over the last month. A woman in Benson contacted us to report the Common Five-lined Skinks she has on her property. Common Five-lined Skinks are Vermont’s only native lizard, and all…Herp Update: Turtle Reports, Frogs Metamorphosing, Frogs Calling – July 9, 2025
July 9, 2025 Recent Herp Activity The reports of nesting turtles have almost completely ended but people are still reporting turtles seen in, or basking near, water. In the last week we have received photos of Vermont Wood Turtles, Spiny Softshells, Northern Map…Herp Update: Turtles, Gray Treefrogs, Mink Frogs, Survey Work – June 17, 2025
June 17, 2025 Recent Herp Activity Over the last couple weeks, we have received a flood of reports of turtles of almost every Vermont species on land, digging nests, and laying eggs. I suspect a statewide mailing from VT Fish & Wildlife encouraging…Herp Update: Salamanders, Turtles, Gray Treefrogs – May 23, 2025
May 23, 2025 Recent Herp Activity With the recent cold and rainy weather we have concentrated our field surveys on our three saturated-soil salamanders (Spring, N. Dusky, and N. Two-lined in headwater streams and seepages, and Spotted Salamanders in ponds and vernal pools.…
