Restoration and Innovation at the LaPlatte Headwaters Town Forest (webinar)

Ethan Tapper, the Chittenden County Forester, Gus Goodwin, senior conservation planner for The Nature Conservancy in Vermont, and Annalise Carington, conservation planner for the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, gave a presentation on restoration and innovation at the LaPlatte Headwaters Town Forest in Hinesburg. They discussed experimental and unique methods being used at this public property to restore floodplains which have been hydrologically altered by human land use and whose regeneration is compromised by a number of factors, including deer browse and dense infestations of reed canary grass. Ethan also discussed efforts underway in the forested portions of the LHTF to improve forest health, terrestrial and aquatic wildlife habitat and water quality by controlling “woody” invasive plants in these areas.

Click here to view the recording of the Zoom conference held on September 22, 2020.