• Science Saturday: Vernal Pool Monitoring

    The Clifton Institute 6712 Blantyre Road, Warrenton, VA, United States

    In this installment of our Science Saturdays series participants will have the opportunity to participate in our vernal pool monitoring project. Vernal pools are fish-free bodies of water that are safe for amphibians to breed in. Here at Clifton, we have multiple made by beavers, humans, and natural depressions, where Spotted Salamanders, Jefferson Salamanders, Eastern […]

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  • Science Saturday: Box Turtle Survey

    The Clifton Institute 6712 Blantyre Road, Warrenton, VA, United States

    In 2022 we started a collaborative research project with the Turtle Conservation Ecology Lab and Joe Kolowski at the Smithsonian’s NZCBI to study Box Turtles. We are studying Box Turtle movements and habitat selection so that we can learn when it’s safe to mow fields in our area. In the third installment of this event, […]

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