trscavo's Journal

The Winooski River is a major river in Vermont. For convenience, I created two new places that capture portions of the river's floodplain:

• Lower Winooski River, from its mouth at Lake Champlain upstream to Essex Dam Number 19 in Essex Junction
• Mid-Winooski River, from its mouth upstream to Bolton Falls Dam Number 1 in Duxbury

The river corridor was arbitrarily chosen to be 1000 feet wide (i.e., 500 feet on either side of a line that runs down the middle of the river).

These places make it easier to search for observations along the river. For example:

• Observations of genus Sagittaria along the Winooski River

The previous list was used to uncover mis-identifications of genus Sagittaria along the river.

A logging operation is encroaching upon a well-known rich fen in Strafford, Vermont. The fen straddles the boundary between Cobb Town Forest and an unnamed property protected by the Upper Valley Land Trust. As of September 22, logging on UVLT land has come within 200 feet of the fen.

The fen in Cobb Town Forest is well known for its diversity, especially orchid species. Any loss of fen habitat to logging would be a huge loss.