The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Vermont Agency of Agriculture will be hosting a workshop for consulting foresters to learn about treating invasive plants with cost-share funding. If there is bad weather, the workshop will be held on March 9th, 2023. Invasive plants, such as honeysuckle and buckthorn, can impact the ability
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December 7-9, In-Person Dec. 10 University of Vermont Extension and Vermont Maple Sugar Makers’ Association are pleased to host the 2022 Vermont Maple Conference! This year, we’re offering three online, interactive conference days December 7-9 and one in-person day December 10 at Vermont Technical College (VTC) in Randolph. We are excited to partner with Vermont Agency of
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Wednesday, December 7 6:30-8 PM The Lyme School, Lyme, NH Presented by Northern Woodlands New Hampshire’s wooden boat builder and outdoorsman Kevin Martin will discuss his new book Big Trees of Northern New England. Learn how he got involved with the Big Tree Program and how it relates to his boat building. He will also
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Thursday, December 1 1-2 PM What led people like Aldo Leopold, Benton MacKaye, Ernest Oberholtzer, and Howard Zahniser to become advocates for our parks, forests, and wilderness areas? While researching his latest book, This Land Was Saved for You and Me: How Gifford Pinchot, Frederick Law Olmsted, and a Band of Foresters Rescued America’s Public Lands,
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Saturday, December 10 9 AM-12 PM Northfield, VT Hosted by Brad Johnson, Third Branch Horse Logging. This workshop will focus on the UVA (Current Use) program and how individual landowners and foresters can fully utilize the program to promote short- and long-term management goals to prep for the plan update in April 2023. The late
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December 7 7 – 8 pm Join us and Audubon Vermont to learn about how the Christmas Bird Count works, why it’s important, and how you can contribute. And yes, we’ll also be talking about the birds! Sign up here.
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Wednesday, December 7 1-2 PM Vermont’s Climate Action Plan calls for an all-hands approach and identifies a wide range of actions that municipalities can lead on, especially with respect to our pattern of land use and how that affects both mitigation and adaptation. It can be overwhelming to understand where to begin and what tools
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Thursday, November 17 7 PM Unitarian Church of Montpelier Join us for the Annual Seward Weber Lecture on Thursday, November 17 at 7 pm ET at the Unitarian Church of Montpelier. In this year’s lecture, Amy Seidl, PhD will draw upon her own personal journey to the green mountain state to reflect upon Vermont’s “geography of whiteness,” and how
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Sunday, November 13 Kendra McGuire will be leading an Outdoor Family program at the Mill Trail. Come out for an hour of afternoon fun for the young and young at heart. We’re also excited for a new entry in the Shutesville Hill Speaker Series. On November 15, the Nature Conservancy’s Jim Shallow will present on the new Family
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Friday, November 18 11 AM-12 PM Click here to register.
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