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15 12, 2022

Invasive Plant Control in the Clyde River Watershed

2023-08-23T10:10:56-04:00December 15th, 2022|Conservation science, Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News, Riparian Lands, Watersheds|

Project Overview The NorthWoods Stewardship Center, located in the Clyde River Watershed in East Charleston, Vermont is an organization with a strong sense of place. As a conservation and educational organization in the North East Kingdom of Vermont, many of our programs and projects emphasize the importance of local stewardship to promote healthy ecosystems. The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department Habitat Stamp funded invasive plant control completed in the Clyde River Watershed was a collection of projects that addressed the spread of non-native plants in the area. These projects were completed [Read More...]

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19 11, 2022

Access for All on Campus

2023-03-29T15:36:10-04:00November 19th, 2022|Highlights, News|

Our vision for the future here at NorthWoods includes a campus and facility that is accessible to all people - even and especially those we've historically missed. With that in mind, one of our ongoing priorities is to invest in improvements to our home campus and ensure our mission and facilities are welcoming to all members of our community. With that in mind, we are excited to embark on the latest campus update—the Access for All Initiative. As a first step in this initiative, we will renovate the NorthWoods main lodge [Read More...]

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13 10, 2022

Hunting Season Safety & Resources

2022-10-13T11:51:46-04:00October 13th, 2022|Education, Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

The NorthWoods Stewardship Center property is intended to be a long-term community resource, and will not be posted. However, management priorities and educational programs may require that we prohibit or limit certain activities. These include, but are not limited to research, school programs, and other forms of recreation. Hunters should exercise special caution while hunting on NorthWoods property, as it remains open to the public for a variety of non-motorized recreational uses throughout the year. Hunters should review the NorthWoods Trail Map to be familiar with areas that are likely [Read More...]

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25 09, 2022

2022 Westmore Mountain Challenge Results

2022-10-04T15:31:31-04:00September 25th, 2022|Highlights, News|

Congratulations to the finishers of the 2022 Westmore Mountain Challenge! We threaded the needle on the weather, with rain all week but a beautiful fall day for the hours of the event. As always, participants were hardworking and gracious, powering through this monumental mental and physical challenge and then sticking around to cheer on the others. Whether you strode over the finish line or enjoyed the trek at your own pace then took a shuttle home, you are part of an esteemed group, thank you for sharing the trails with us! [Read More...]

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23 09, 2022

WMC 2022 – Remembering Jean Haigh

2022-09-23T12:04:34-04:00September 23rd, 2022|Highlights, News|

By Ami English Two sleeps away from the 2022 Westmore Challenge and I am finally getting around to talk about what it means to me. I have yet to finish the entire challenge. I have been content with just bagging the 5 peaks. Last year I had decided that I was done trying.  Ami English and Jean Haigh at the opening of the Kingdom Heritage Trail in Island Pond. And then life happened, the stars aligned and I am now the recipient of the first-ever Jean Haigh Memorial Westmore [Read More...]

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13 09, 2022

Seeding Conservation – Staff Highlight: Jessica Colby

2023-08-23T10:11:14-04:00September 13th, 2022|Conservation science, Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News, Riparian Lands, Science, Staff|

Jess Colby knew since she was a kid that she wanted to work in conservation. Currently working as our Riparian Projects & Forestry Outreach Coordinator, Jess brings expertise from her degree at UVM, plus years working and volunteering with various conservation agencies and organizations to her work at NorthWoods in riparian restoration work and wildlife conservation.  One of her early introductions to the world of conservation was working with NorthWoods' YCC crew at the Pondicherry division of the Silvio O Conte NFWR as a teenager. "I've always been pretty set on [Read More...]

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3 08, 2022

Women’s Crew Digs in on NEK Trails

2022-08-03T18:46:40-04:00August 3rd, 2022|Conservation Corps, Highlights, News|

The Women's Crew has been making a splash as NorthWoods' newest local day crew, working on projects throughout the NEK. Women have long made up a larger-than-usual proportion of NorthWoods crews and staff at large but this is the first year the organization has hosted a women's-only crew, consisting of three college-age leaders and three high-school-age members. Crew leader Ash Cray has previously led crews for other organizations and said she experienced many challenges being respected as a woman in a male-dominated field. She has found working with the all-women team [Read More...]

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1 08, 2022

Honeysuckle Removal Along the Black River

2023-08-23T10:11:26-04:00August 1st, 2022|Conservation science, Forest Stewardship Institute, News, Riparian Lands, Watersheds|

Over the past month, the Riparian Lands crew has been out conducting cut-stump treatments of invasive honeysuckle along the Black River at the South Bay Wildlife Management Area in Coventry, VT. Vermont has four invasive species of honeysuckles, all of which are deciduous shrubs with opposite, egg-shaped leaves and have hollow piths - easily shown by cutting a twig off the shrub with a knife. By leafing out earlier and retaining leaves later, honeysuckle (like other invasive species) has a competitive advantage over native vegetation and easily forms dense thickets that [Read More...]

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29 06, 2022

Seed Collection Continues!

2023-08-23T10:11:35-04:00June 29th, 2022|Conservation science, Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News, Riparian Lands, Science|

With the seeds of spring-dispersed species ripening and falling throughout the past month, the Riparian Lands crew has had plenty of work to do, collecting, processing, storing, and broadcasting native tree seeds for a direct seeding project in partnership with Vermont Fish and Wildlife and the Connecticut River Conservancy. Silver maple was the main focal species for collection, with the goal of restoring a plot of land within the Johnson Farms WMA from hayfield to silver maple floodplain. Previously, the project area was mowed, treated with herbicide to control invasive reed [Read More...]

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27 06, 2022

Bird Friendly Forestry

2022-06-29T12:14:59-04:00June 27th, 2022|Conservation science, Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News, Science|

This June the Forest Stewardship Institute at NorthWoods assisted in organizing two birding events to educate the public on the importance of bird habitat in Vermont, how land managers can work to create and manage important habitat features, and how to identify birds by sight and sound. The Audubon Vermont’s Birders Dozen was used as a framework to talk about the importance of forest habitat variety in Vermont. The dozen species listed by Audubon cover the breadth of forest types generally needed for the 40 forest birds identified in the Audubon [Read More...]

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