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Survey Project Materials

· Manual for Participants (pdf) - This manual offers complete instructions for participating in the survey.
· Survey Checklist (pdf) - A handy checklist for survey volunteers and a sign for the windshield of your vehicle while you're out surveying for butterflies.
· Site Visit Form (pdf) - This form is mandatory for surveying any site for butterflies.
· Voucher Data Cards - These cannot be downloaded. Please contact the survey office for voucher cards.
· Casual Sighting Form (pdf) - This form is for listing butterfly species you encounter on an incidental basis away from a formal survey site.
· Preliminary Checklist of Vermont Butterflies (pdf) - A pocket field card with known and possible butterfly species and subspecies in Vermont and possible flight periods.
- Block Mask for VT Atlas & Gazetter (pdf) - Print this out and use to mark general locations of your blocks in the Vermont Atlas & Gazeteer. Scale is 1:100,000.
· Volunteer Time Form (pdf) - Used to document the in-kind match required for the federal State Wildlife Grant (SWG) funds used for this project.
· VBS Pamphlet (pdf) - Used to help ask landowners for permission to survey on their property.
- Blocks in Google Earth - You can use the free Google Earth mapping program to view survey priority blocks. Download block file and open in Google Earth.



Survey Project Maps

VBS will accept butterfly records from anywhere in Vermont - your front yard, your workplace or a remote spruce bog. But to make sure we survey butterflies evenly and systematically across the state, the project has adopted a mapping system. The system relies on the 184 U.S. Geological Survey 1:24,000 quadrangle topographic maps ("7½-minute maps") for Vermont. Within each of these maps, VBS has randomly selected a "priority block" of roughly 9 square miles. These priority blocks are the minimum number of blocks that must be surveyed in order to obtain a statistically valid sample of butterflies for the entire state. VBS prefers that you survey within a priority block.

Download a Priority Block Map.