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Like butterflies? You can contribute to Vermont's next Butterfly Atlas

By Mikaela Lefrak,

Published May 23, 2023 at 3:08 PM EDT

This hour, we'll talk about the ways Vermonters can get involved with second edition of the 'Butterfly Atlas.' — This hour, we'll talk about the ways Vermonters can get involved with the second edition of the Butterfly Atlas.

Live, call-in discussion: The Vermont Center for Ecostudies is looking for help in their second-ever Vermont Butterfly Atlas. It’s a massive, statewide effort to count butterflies to see how their populations are doing. With the first study done from 2002 to 2007, Vermont is poised to be the first state to repeat the study 20 years later.

Our guest:

Nathaniel Sharp, a biologist with the Vermont Center for Ecostudies and the coordinator of the Vermont Butterfly Atlas

Broadcast at noon Wednesday, May 24, 2023; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

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Mikaela Lefrak

Mikaela Lefrak is the host and senior producer of Vermont Edition. Her stories have aired nationally on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Marketplace, The World and Here & Now. A seasoned local reporter, Mikaela has won two regional Edward R. Murrow awards and a Public Media Journalists Association award for her work.

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Andrea Laurion

Andrea Laurion joined Vermont Public as a news producer for Vermont Edition in December 2022. She is a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., and a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine. Before getting into audio, Andrea worked as an obituary writer, a lunch lady, a wedding photographer assistant, a children’s birthday party hostess, a haunted house actor, and an admin assistant many times over.

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