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WEB3 days ago · The Changing Landscape Archive was funded with an $800,000 federal grant from both the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Over several years in the early 2000s, UVM students were hired to collect, scan, upload, and write descriptions of photos from all over Vermont designed to show how the state’s ...
Four Decades, 36,000 Photographs: The Construction Of ... - Vermont …
WEBNov 21, 2013 · One of the biggest changes to Vermont’s landscape came in the middle of the last century with the construction of the Interstate Highway system. If you’re zipping down Interstate 89 today, it might be hard to visualize what the state was like without it.
A Brief History and Overview of Vermont’s Physical Landscape
WEBA Brief History and Overview of Vermont’s Physical Landscape. The story of Vermont begins thousands of millions of years ago. However, we can gain some understanding of Vermont’s most striking physical landscape features by focusing on just three major events: the formation of the Iapetus Ocean 575 million years ago
UVMDC Digital Collections at UVM - WRUV
WEBThe Landscape Change Program is an archive of paired historic and recent photos of Vermont landscapes. The program is funded by the National Science Foundation to digitally document how the Vermont landscape has changed over time." It includes thousands of images, and additional teaching and research resources.
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WEBAug 28, 2022 · Protected wildlands in the Northeast, covering just 5% of the landscape, store 30% of the region’s aboveground carbon; Old forests are most resilient to climate change.
Vermont just set a '30 by 30' land conservation goal ... - Vermont …
WEBJun 14, 2023 · The Community Resilience and Biodiversity Protection Act sets a goal to permanently conserve 30% of all land in Vermont by 2030. That’s in keeping with President Joe Biden’s "30 by 30" executive order, which sets the same goal nationwide.
WEBThe highways drastically changed the Vermont landscape. Aerial pho-tographs from the collection show the scale of change wrought by Interstate construction. Ground-level images show machines pushing tons of rock, dirt, trees, and buildings to make way for the coming highway.
Syllabus - WRUV
WEBEasily and quickly use the Landscape Change Program to find images of Vermont landscapes. describe and interpret Vermont Landscapes, their history and origin. describe historical images. recognize and describe human impact on the landscape and the impact of the landscape on human endeavors.
Digital Collections - Henry Sheldon Museum
WEBApproximately 7,500 historic photographs of the Center’s over 10,000 holdings, may be searched through the collaborative Landscape Change Program. Hosted through the University of Vermont, the images provide an interdisciplinary look at how the Vermont landscape has changed over time.
WEBVermonters value wildlife, nature, the state’s rural character, and our working forests and farms. We depend on the natural landscape to support these and other values. Habitat loss and fragmentation, non-native species, and a rapidly changing climate all pose grave threats to species and ecosystems.