Daily Archives: November 14, 2013

14 11, 2013

Nulhegan Basin North Trail Opens to Public

2016-12-13T19:12:16-05:00November 14th, 2013|Conservation Corps, News|

The Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge – Nulhegan Basin Division announced this week that the North Branch Trail has been completed and is now available for public use.  The four mile loop trail is accessed from a parking area along Route 105 in Ferdinand, Vermont, approximately one-half mile west of the railroad crossing.  It’s expected that the trail will enhance opportunities for bird watching, environmental education outings by school children, and especially fishing – with improved access to the North Branch of the Nulhegan River - a high [Read More...]

14 11, 2013

Women Can Do 2013

2016-12-13T19:12:16-05:00November 14th, 2013|Conservation Corps, Education, News|

This year, as we have done for the past two years, Cody and I shared the pleasures and pitfalls of working with chainsaws with about 60 girls who will be Vermont’s next generation of fierce workforce women. This year, to our surprise and delight, the weather was perfect - crisp enough that we knew it was fall, but sunny enough that we could get away with wearing t-shirts. On the beautiful Old Dorm Green at Vermont Technical College, Cody and I set up our saw horses and pole-sized logs, and waited for our students to appear. [Read More...]

14 11, 2013

Ross Morgan Awarded Buzzell Stewardship Award

2016-12-13T19:12:18-05:00November 14th, 2013|Forest Stewardship Institute, News|

NorthWoods’ Jayson Benoit, right, presents Ross Morgan, center, with the 2013 George Buzzell Forest Stewardship Award, with the help of Buzzell’s daughter, Rebecca Brown, left. NorthWoods Stewardship Center presented consulting forester Ross Morgan of Craftsbury with the first annual George Buzzell Forest Stewardship Award at NorthWoods’ Annual Stewardship Celebration on Friday, October. The award recognizes extraordinary commitment to the sustainable management of forests in the Northeast Kingdom. As inscribed on a plaque that hangs at NorthWoods, “George Buzzell served for 44 years as Orleans County Forester and was widely known and respected for his quick wit, knowledge, dedication to [Read More...]

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