Saturday 9/25/21 9 AM – 12 PM During this woodlot tour, we will walk a woodlot in which climate adaptability is one of the multiple management goals. Participants will hear about some simple methods to begin thinking about carbon sequestration and storage in a working woodlot. We will discuss how carbon planning might fit into
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September 18, 9-11 AM Forest Center, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP, Woodstock, VT. Join us for this in-person workshop with Vermont River Management Engineer Todd Menees to learn about flood resiliency, riparian vegetation, and water quality in the Ottauquechee River watershed. The workshop format will be in 3-parts: indoor slide presentations, a river flume table demonstration, and a
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October 9, 10-11:30 AM Forest Center, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP, Woodstock, VT. The leaves are changing colors and the landscape is a beautiful array of yellow, red, and orange. Some trees have already dropped all their leaves, others are just beginning to change. Do you know how to tell different species of trees just by their fall
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Saturday, October 23, 9–11 AM Join this workshop at the Ellis Town Forest to learn how to identify invasive plants in late fall, when our native plants have dropped their leaves. This workshop will also cover different methods for invasive plant control. The Ellis Town Forest is in the village of Randolph at the end
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We are ready to see you all again at our first in-person gathering since March 2020 that promises to be a fun-filled and celebratory day! As the title says, it’s our 2021 Annual Meeting …. And MORE! Click here to go to the Annual meeting page! Register Here for the meeting.
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August 3, 2021 313 McCarty Rd., West Berlin, Vermont Facilitators: Kathy Beland, Alex Barret Host: David Wilcox, Tree Farmer Vermont Tree Farm Facilitators are hosting a morning Tree Farm Inspector Training (SAF credits already assigned), followed by a field session on a Vermont Certified Tree Farm. All foresters are invited and encouraged to attend. (Note:
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Saturday 8/28/21, 9 AM – 12 PM This session will focus on how these kinds of positive impact harvest tools offer an alternative approach to short and long-term woodlot management, and how management plans can be written with this non-traditional approach in mind. Horses will be working on-site, along with small tractors and forwarding wagons. Participants will tour the
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TREE FARM TOUR SATURDAY, August 28, 2021, at 11:00 AM Pfälzerwald Tree Farm, 1619 Berry Hill Road, Sheffield, VT Join Al Robertson, woodland owner and member of the Vermont Tree Farm Committee, on his property as we take a leisurely walk in his forest and Enjoy the trails… Check out last year’s logging
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We are pleased to announce that Lynn Levine, of Nature Connect, will be leading a Forest Immersion workshop on Saturday, July 10 (the rain date is Sunday, July 11) from 10 to 12:30 in Dummerston. Join Naturalist/Forester Lynn Levine on a journey to connect with the forest, ourselves and each other. We will explore sounds of
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We are pleased to announce that Lynn Levine, of Nature Connect, will be leading a fern identification workshop on Saturday, June 5 (rain date is Sunday, June 6) from 10 to 12:30 in Dummerston. Lynn is a naturalist and environmental educator and is the author of the recently published book, “Identifying Ferns the Easy Way: A Pocket
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