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30 04, 2019

Corps Field Season Begins: Faulkner Island Lighthouse

2019-04-30T11:30:25-04:00April 30th, 2019|Conservation Corps, Highlights, News|

The Conservation Corps is gearing up for the season and has already begun spring projects. In partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the Faulkner Island Lighthouse Brigade, the Corps built a 60-foot brick walkway leading up to Connecticut’s second oldest lighthouse on Faulkner Island in Long Island Sound. The lighthouse, built in 1802 and commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson, still serves as a navigational aid to boats passing through the sound. The island is a part of the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge, and is [Read More...]

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25 09, 2018

Sentinel Rock & Burke Mountain ADA Trails

2018-10-25T12:26:23-04:00September 25th, 2018|Conservation Corps, Highlights, News|

The NorthWoods Conservation Corps has completed their trail work at Sentinel Rock State Park. As of now, the park has a 240’ Universal Access trail that spurs from the glacial erratic. From the ADA trail, there’s a small footpath that leads to the lower parking area and a brand new trail that leads to the wooded, multi-use trails. The footpath in the meadow crosses wet areas on bog bridges past an old birch tree with scenic views of Lake Willoughby and the glacial erratic in the distance. The “lollipop loop” through [Read More...]

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27 08, 2018

Universal Access Trails at Moose Bog and Sentinel Rock

2018-08-27T12:49:22-04:00August 27th, 2018|Conservation Corps, Highlights|

The NorthWoods crew finished up a grueling three weeks of hauling Sta-mat with wheelbarrows to complete a Universal Access trail at Moose Bog, in compliance with the American with Disabilities Act. From the existing Wenlock Wildlife Management Area kiosk and parking lot, the crew cut a new 0.1-mile section of trail connecting to the existing Moose Bog trail. They widened the existing trail to a minimum of 36” for wheelchair accessibility and built ten rest areas about 200’ apart along the trail. The crew hauled more than 1,000 tons of Sta-mat [Read More...]

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14 08, 2017

NorthWoods Newest Crew is for Water Quality Warriors

2017-08-14T12:43:42-04:00August 14th, 2017|Conservation Corps, Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

The NorthWoods Stewardship Center’s Conservation Corps program has a 22-year history of employing local youth to work on priority conservation projects in communities throughout the region with a special focus on the northeast kingdom. The Corps builds and improves hiking trails, manages exotic invasive species, plants riparian buffers, and improves wildlife habitat, and supports ecosystem resilience. This summer we welcomed our newest crew, the Watershed Crew to the multi-faceted Corps. This crew was tasked with completing projects in Vermont’s watersheds to improve water quality and they did an amazing job of [Read More...]

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27 01, 2017

New USFWS Partnership Programs in 2017

2017-03-24T12:29:24-04:00January 27th, 2017|Conservation Corps, Highlights, News|

Since 1999, NorthWoods Stewardship Center has had a long-standing partnership with the US Fish and Wildlife Service to manage Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) crews at National Wildlife Refuges across  New England. Nearly 20 years later, the partnership continues to offer great conservation career  opportunities at several new locations. This year, NorthWoods will manage a YCC Crew at the Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge in northwestern Vermont and a YCC Crew Leader team at the Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge in Downeast Maine. These crews are in addition to our current YCC crews at [Read More...]

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27 07, 2016

2016 Corps Season: Bald Mountain Trail Restoration Progress

2016-12-13T19:11:45-05:00July 27th, 2016|Conservation Corps, Highlights, News|

The NorthWoods Trail Crew takes a break from trail work at the Bald Mountain summit. (L to R) Alexis Alderman, Shane Tulp (crew leader), Quinn Stevens, Aaron Verge, Dawson Cote, Delphine McCann, Calvin Hosford, Kayla Hanson (crew leader). The NorthWoods Conservation Corps passed the halfway point in its summer season this past week and hikers and outdoor enthusiasts will find signs of their efforts throughout the region. Substantial trail management projects are recently completed or underway on Bald Mountain in Westmore, Wheeler Mountain in Sutton, and on the Cohos Trail in [Read More...]

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25 05, 2016

3,600 Trees Planted in Newport Center

2016-12-13T19:11:46-05:00May 25th, 2016|Conservation Corps, Highlights, News|

Over the course of three weeks this May, the Corps has been busy planting 3,600 trees at the Marquis site along Mud Creek in Newport Center. The species planted included: Northern white cedar, tamarack, quaking aspen, shrub willows, boxelder, nannyberry, and winterberry. Across 12 acres, these young trees will make up a riparian forest buffer which will reduce nutrients/pollutants in surface runoff, lower water temperatures through the shade they provide, create habitat corridors for wildlife, and produce litter and large woody debris for aquatic organisms. Every spring season, alongside partners such [Read More...]

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25 05, 2016

Wheeler Mountain Trail Work Underway

2016-12-13T19:11:46-05:00May 25th, 2016|Conservation Corps, Highlights, News|

Changes are coming to Wheeler Mountain that will ensure continued public access for years to come. In an effort coordinated by NorthWoods Stewardship Center, Wheeler Mountain landowner John Krieble has agreed to a public access trail easement in a move that also relocates the lower portion of the Wheeler Mountain Trails onto nearby Willoughby State Forest. The new route will begin at a trailhead parking area, to be constructed this summer, on state lands and bypass the poorly sited parking area in use today. Under the agreement, crews from the NorthWoods Conservation Corps will construct roughly [Read More...]

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23 08, 2013

Corps Photo Contest

2016-12-13T19:12:19-05:00August 23rd, 2013|Conservation Corps|

Check out this great group of photos that Conservation Corps crew members and leaders took during the 2013 summer field season. Photos were judged in five different categories: Conservation Practices, Flora & Fauna, People, Landscapes and Ham & Cheese (just for fun). Can you guess which photos were in which category? Click on a photo to view them all in slideshow format.

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