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**NORTHWOODS HOSTS SPRING PLANT AND CRAFT FAIR
Celebrate Spring planting season and get your garden started at NorthWoods Stewardship Center’s Annual Spring Plant and Craft Fair this Saturday, May 10 from 9-4.  Over twenty vendors from around the region will be offering locally-produced crafts, foods and plants.  Support your local farmers, growers and crafters during this all-day indoor/outdoor activity.  Lunch is available.  Contact NorthWoods for more information, 802-723-6551.**

NorthWoods' Conservation Corps is still seeking applicants for its Massachusetts and Connecticut crews. Click here for details.

Our Summer Programs this year include a Nature Day Camp for younger kids and an Outdoor Adventures Camp, a Canoe Expedition, Backpacking Expedition, and a Sustainability Camp for teens. We are also offering a 12-day Field Research experience for high school science students. Visit our Summer Camps page for details.

Click here to read Mike Ives' wonderful article in Seven Days about this year's winter tracking program.

Click here for our new Clyde River Geomorphic Assessment report.

UPCOMING EVENTS - FOR DETAILS SEE OUR EVENTS CALENDAR

Home Wind Power: Fact & Fiction
Tuesday, May 13, 7 pm, $10
Presenter Ian Woofenden will discuss the benefits and liabilities of small-scale wind-electric systems.
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Kingdom Coffeehouse: Great Brook Blues Band Friday, May 16, 7pm
$10 adults/$5 children ‘Free range, organic Vermont blues'! Join us for an evening of Chicago-style blues, jazz, funk and rock.

Connecticut River Canoe Trip
Saturday, May 17
$10 adults/$5 children Join us for a daylong paddle on the Connecticut as we explore northernEssex County and the Coos region of New Hampshire.

Full Moon Paddle
Monday, May 19; Wednesday, June 18; Thursday, July 17; Saturday, August 16, 7 pm, $10 adults/$5 children Our staff will lead this paddle on the scenic and ecologically diverse waters of the Clyde River/ Echo Lake under the light of the rising moon. Canoes, paddles and PFD’s provided.

The Current State of Current Use
Thursday, May 22, 7 pm, $10
Director Bill Snow will join us to explain changes to Vermont’s Current Use program that will affect thousands of landowners and many acres across the state.

Waste Reduction and Recycling in the Northeast Kingdom
Thursday, May 29, 7pm
Free Paul Tomasi of the Northeast Kingdom Waste Management District discusses waste management the possibilities for lowering waste generation and disposal costs.

White-Nosed Syndrome and Vermont Bats
Friday, May 30 (at NorthWoods) and August 29 (at Hebbard Building, Newport), 7pm
$10 Dr. William Kilpatrick presents an overview of Vermont bats, their ecological role, and newson the White-Nosed Syndrome.
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