This season's relentless rains have many of us desperate for some of the more benevolent signs of summer, such as butterflies. And now we have a better idea of just how diverse the butterfly population is, because the Vermont Center for Ecostudies has released the results of a six-year survey. VPR's Angela Evancie has more...
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Will the atlas be available in a published (paper) format? As a field ob server in the early year of the survey, I would love to have a book version.
Sadly, doubtful. It costs tens of thousands of dollars to publish these books these days as the publishers just won't do it without us paying a lot of the costs. The market is too small. That said, I am looking into publishing on demand, which would make each book fairly expensive, but it might be doable. We wouldn't have it done for a year or more though. Meanwhile, I keep updating a "final report" as I have time that is a PDF online. You can read it electronically or even take it to a printer and have them print it out. I do update it fairly regularly as I edit or add more detail. You can find it at http://www.vtecostudies.org/VBS/news.html. Thanks for helping with the survey and for your continued interest!
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