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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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3 06, 2022

Spring Seed Collection Adventures

2023-08-23T10:11:44-04:00June 3rd, 2022|Conservation science, Highlights, News, Riparian Lands, Science|

The Riparian Lands crew has been out scouting and collecting seeds as part of our direct seeding project with Vermont Fish and Wildlife. Species we have been focusing on this spring include: quaking aspen, bigtooth aspen, balsam poplar, eastern cottonwood, black willow, shrub willow, silver maple, red maple, and American elm. Over the past couple months, the crew has been scouting out locations for potential collection sites and gathering data on the different tree and shrub species. Observations on weather, flowering dates, seed formation, and other notes have been collected for [Read More...]

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13 05, 2022

Building Resistance to Dutch Elm Disease

2022-05-13T12:11:16-04:00May 13th, 2022|Conservation science, Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News, Science|

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the United States Forest Service (USFS), along with many other partners, have been working to restore the American Elm (Ulmus americana) to its historical range and prominence on the landscape. NorthWoods has been fortunate to collaborate on this work in Vermont. The focus is on creating a genetically diverse population that is resistant to Dutch Elm Disease. Dutch Elm Disease (DED), which made its way to the US in the 1930s, has decimated elm populations across the country. While some of us may have seen these [Read More...]

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31 03, 2022

$10,000 Grant Supports Program Gear Purchases

2022-10-03T10:38:11-04:00March 31st, 2022|Conservation Corps, Highlights, News|

Thanks to the generosity of a $10,000 grant from Cabela's and Bass Pro Shops Outdoor Fund, NorthWoods will have the opportunity to update and upgrade our crew and project equipment for the 2022 field season. Our Conservation Corps, Forestry, Conservation Science and Education staff work hard and while we take care of our equipment, we also put it through its paces! With this grant, our staff and crews will be able to invest in good quality supplies and replace worn out equipment for work in all conditions. Some of the items [Read More...]

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25 02, 2022

Wild & Woolly Snowshoe Race Recap

2022-02-25T17:01:53-05:00February 25th, 2022|Highlights, News|

On Saturday, Feb 19th NorthWoods Stewardship Center hosted the return of the Wild & Woolly Snowshoe Event; featuring wild winter weather and intrepid winter travelers. This year’s event hosted nineteen athletes from around the Northeast to compete in 5K and 10k race events. A large group of twelve Paul Smith’s College Striders’ athletes brought the spirit to the event doting “Wild and Woolly” costumes as well as positive energy. Although the forecast coming into the event predicted warm and rainy conditions, races went off with fresh powder and snow squalls through [Read More...]

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