The Salisbury Conservation Commission has received a $500 grant from the Association of Vermont Conservation Commissions (AVCC) to support its winter wildlife tracking program. We have been recording the locations of wildlife tracks in the snow along roads for four years to locate Salisbury’s significant wildlife movement areas (learn more here). This grant will allow us to continue this project for an additional year and to complete data analysis and map creation of all of our results to date. We will also use grant money to hold a workshop in early 2011 to share our methods and results with members of other towns who are considering starting their own tracking programs. Please contact us if you are interested in helping with the tracking next winter.
We greatly appreciate the support of AVCC, and their recognition of this project’s potential to increase awareness of the importance of maintaining connections among increasingly fragmented habitats in Salisbury.