Biological Inventories at the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, VT
The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park is the only national park to focus on conservation history and the evolving nature of land stewardship in America. Opened to the public in 1997, Vermont's first national park preserves and interprets the historic 555-acre Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller property in Woodstock. The National Park Service plans to operate the forest as a working landscape with educational forestry demonstrations, exhibits, and sustainable forestry practices. To attain these goals, a forest management plan is being developed for the park. In order to help guide the development of this plan, park managers need comprehensive information about the biological resources that occur within the park and how management practices might affect the status and distribution of these resources.

To date, VINS has conducted three comprehensive inventories of four different taxonomic groups, amphibians and reptiles, bats, and breeding birds.

Final Reports (.pdf)
Amphibians and Reptiles (3 mb)
Breeding Birds (4 Mb)
Bats (900 Kb)

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