Welcome to the blog!

As part of the Mapping and Measurements (NR 25) class at the University of Vermont, we are mapping and inventorying a 1-hectare plot within Niquette Bay State Park in Colchester, VT. We will move up through the layers of the landscape throughout the next month, analyzing everything from bedrock geology to plant species to wildlife habitat. We hope you enjoy learning about our site as much as we do!

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Our first blog post!




We've laid out the boundary of our 1-hectare plot and created a basemap, including sites of the homestead buildings and the well. Below is a Google Map showing our site relative to the rest of
the park. We've also broken down the plot by different stands of vegetation, calculating the area of each stand in Google Earth to create this pie chart below.




Here are some links to KML maps (viewable in Google Earth) that show the approximate cover areas of our different vegetation types:

Horsetail Understory
Vernal Pools




View Niquette Bay State Park, VT--Allen Homestead in a larger map



On another note, we have also unearthed a more creative map of our site that indicates a large treasure buried in the well on our site during the mid 1800s when pirates ruled the depths of the lake. It also highlights another safe area to hide stolen loot, and the unexplored territory up near what is now Raymond Road and Rt. 2. We have yet to locate the treasure, but maybe one of you will!



Sources:
Basemap by Sam Smith, Ryan Tessier, Darren Schibler
Template for Pirate Map: 20-20 Template Site. 2011 LoveToKnow Corp

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