Mission & Vision
Mission Statement:
Connecting human and natural communities through education and action.

Through six interconnected program areas, NorthWoods serves its surrounding communities in northern Vermont and New Hampshire as a central destination for quality scientific research, youth and adult education, sustainable land-management and conservation services, and outdoor recreation.

It is the synergy of these programs that helps create responsible and informed citizens capable of sustaining vibrant communities and a healthier natural environment.

Animating Vision:
“By visions, I mean the conception of a future society that animates what we actually do…” – Noam Chomsky, 1996

The NorthWoods Stewardship Center operates on a fundamental belief that humans can and must live prosperously on the land, while giving back to the land all that we take from it in a responsible, educated manner.

We recognize that the knowledge necessary to achieve this goal is partial, at best, and that the only way to fill the gaps of human knowledge is to practice, as best we can, that which we seek to achieve.

Therefore we choose to use our land base as a community resource to identify and research the best-practice models of management for the most sustainable land-use patterns in our region: forestry, recreation, energy production, and, in turn, education and action.

See our Goals for 2010