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11 05, 2018

Building Resilience: Cenkl’s 2018 VT Climate Run

2018-05-11T18:08:36-04:00May 11th, 2018|Conservation Corps, Education, Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

Our friend and board member Pavel Cenkl is doing it again! In 2015 he ran his first Climate Run - 240km across Iceland from south to north. In 2017 he ran a grueling path on the Arctic Trail through northern Scandinavia. And this summer, he will be bringing climate resilience and awareness close to home with a 500 mile trek, biking down the full length of the state of Vermont in a single day, then running back north via the Long Trail. On June 20th, 2018, Pavel will tackle the [Read More...]

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23 02, 2016

This Week in the Woods: the Polar Vortex

2016-12-13T19:11:48-05:00February 23rd, 2016|This Week in the Woods|

A polar vortex, as intimidating as it sounds, is really just a pocket of cold air and low pressure surrounding both the North and South poles. It is actually always there, though it is rare that we, here in New England, get to experience its chilling effects. The “Vortex” refers to a counter-clockwise spinning of the pressure system which acts to centralize it over the poles. I say “over” because this weather is actually occurring tens of thousands of feet above the earth’s surface. Every so often, the polar vortex swells [Read More...]

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14 12, 2015

This Week in the Woods: Why the heck is it so warm?

2016-12-13T19:11:54-05:00December 14th, 2015|Highlights, News, This Week in the Woods|

December, why are you so warm? This unusually warm start to winter can be attributed to a global event known as “El Niño.” Generally speaking, El Niño can be defined as a prolonged increase in average sea surface temperatures across the Pacific Ocean. A cyclic event, El Niño typically occurs every 2-7 years, every five on average. This ocean warming means different things to different places. Here in the Northeast, it brings warmer, drier winter months. El Niño’s rush of warm ocean water, heated as it travels eastward in the Equatorial [Read More...]

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