VES Events and Field Trips

We like to get outside. So here's a list of field outings and events. If you have something to add, send it to our webmaster, Bryan Pfeiffer.

Although details aren’t worked out for everything listed below, this schedule provides a “heads up” for upcoming events. Check back to this page for updates.

May 29 / 11am (Rain date May 30)
The Helen W. Buckner Memorial Preserve at Bald Mountain in West Haven
With Davie Rolnick as our guide, we will be meeting at the small parking lot for Tim's Trail. Directions: From Whitehall, NY, take Route 4 east; from Rutland, VT, take Route 4 west. Then from Route 4, just east of Whitehall village, turn north onto Route 9A across from the Bittersweet Plaza. After about one mile, turn left onto Route 9 at the T intersection. Take the first right onto Route 10 (Doig Street). Then turn left onto the dirt road (the paved road curves right). Cross the bridge and turn left. The Tim's Trail parking area is 0.7 miles down the dirt road on the right. Though it is called a parking area, it really only has space for a couple of cars, so we will probably have to park along the road by the parking area. Questions about weather that day? Call Davie at 802-394-2525 or e-mail at dsrolnick@aol.com. If thunderstorms or hail or something worse seem likely to occur, an e-mail will be sent to re-schedule. Here's a web link about the site.

June 12-15
BELLFEST- 2010
BELLFEST will be a celebration of the 50- year career of Ross and Joyce Bell (Department of Biology, University of Vermont) in biological education and insect systematics. Colleagues and other friends will gather in Burlington to participate in a symposium, banquet, and a day in the field for insect collecting, etc. The symposium will feature two days of scientific presentations (talks and posters). Within a year of the meeting, a Festschrift will be published, based primarily on the presentations offered during the symposium, but open to later contributions. All are welcome to attend.

Here is the Official BellFest Web Site.

July 11 / 10am - noon
Birds of Vermont Museum Butterfly (and other insects) Walk
Our annual butterfly walk at Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington.

July 24 - Goodsell Ridge and Alburg Dunes
Rain date July 25

July 31
Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, Nulhegan Basin Division
On Route 105 between Island Pond and Bloomfield. (See http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=53590.) This trip is tentative at this point.

August 28 - Field trip to NatureHaven in Milton
Rain date August 29