forestry

30 01, 2026

Mast & Crop Tree Release in the Spitzer Forest

2026-01-30T16:44:32-05:00January 30th, 2026|Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

If you find excitement watching grass grow, you might get really excited watching trees grow! As we manage the NorthWoods Demonstration Forest, we have to think in “forest time,” understanding that trees can live for hundreds of years and ecological processes can take decades, centuries or longer to unfold. In forest time, most of our Demonstration Forest is still very young. Last summer and fall we worked in one of these young stands of ~40 year old hardwood trees that started growing after heavy logging in the 1980s. NorthWoods manages [Read More...]

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22 05, 2025

Jenny Newland

2025-05-22T14:47:45-04:00May 22nd, 2025|Staff|

Jenny grew up in the Northeast Kingdom surrounded by family, fields, wetlands, and forests. After graduating from Stanford University with a degree in earth science, she joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in Bolivia working with women’s groups and soaking in amazing culture and scenery. After returning to the U.S. and spending some time back home, Jenny decided that forestry would be a great way to apply her skills and get to work outside, so she returned to academia and completed a master’s degree in forestry at the University [Read More...]

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15 04, 2025

Women and Our Woods: Beginner Chainsaw Use and Safety

2025-04-15T15:02:19-04:00April 15th, 2025|, , |

Saturday, May 31, 2025 8:00 am – 4:00 pm at NorthWoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston Women Owning Woods Vermont invites you to learn to be safe with a chainsaw!  This course is designed to introduce the safe handling of a chainsaw, as well as boost the confidence level of anyone who has very little or no experience with a saw. Topics covered: parts of a chainsaw, safety, bucking (cutting an already felled tree), and basic maintenance. Participants should bring a helmet with a face shield, eye and ear protection, or chaps if [Read More...]

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27 03, 2024

Monitoring Climate Resilience with Ali Kosiba

2024-03-27T18:16:25-04:00March 27th, 2024|Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

In 2023, with the support of the Society of American Foresters (SAF) Kurt Gottschalk Science Fund, the NorthWoods Stewardship Center partnered with UVM Extension Forester Ali Kosiba to establish climate resilience monitoring plots in the NorthWoods demonstration forest. Using protocols developed by UVM Extension, NorthWoods forestry staff and interns collected data that will be used to evaluate a forest stand where past timber harvesting was designed to improve climate resilience, bird habitat, and other ecological values. Sustainable Forestry Interns at NorthWoods spent their 10-week season working on a wide variety of [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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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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24 02, 2022

Timber Harvesting with Wildlife Habitat in Mind

2022-02-24T16:35:21-05:00February 24th, 2022|Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

Strapping on snowshoes and bundling up for a cold afternoon out in the woods, landowners residing within the Bean Brook watershed in Newark met earlier this month to tour a recently completed timber harvest. County Forester, Matt Langlais, led participants in discussions with the consulting forester for the harvest, Charlie Stabolepszy (F&W Forestry), about the various goals, thoughtful planning, and process that were key to setting up and making this timber harvest a successful one. During the tour, participants were able to see various wildlife habitat (snags, downed wood, and [Read More...]

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26 02, 2021

Celebrating Buzzell Forest Stewardship Award Winners Virtually

2021-02-26T13:01:52-05:00February 26th, 2021|Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

In honor of the esteemed county forester for which it is named, the George Buzzell Forest Stewardship Award recognizes individuals who are making a positive impact on Northeast Kingdom forests. During his 44 years as Orleans County Forester, George Buzzell exemplified the best practice of his trade, including research that helped to re-define sugarbush management in Vermont. George also cast a welcoming net–encouraging education and inviting the widest community into the conversation and practice of forestry. Due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last spring, we unfortunately had to postpone [Read More...]

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1 10, 2020

Welcoming our 2020 Fall Sustainable Forestry Interns

2020-10-01T14:22:37-04:00October 1st, 2020|Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

This fall we welcomed another set of new faces to our Sustainable Forestry Internship program, led by FSI Director, Sam Perron. During this 6-week session, interns learn and work alongside staff on forestry, conservation, habitat management and landowner outreach projects. This year's interns have been performing invasive plant control, practicing pre-commercial thinning and low-impact tractor logging, performing wildlife habitat and landscape-level ecological assessments, tree planting, firewood processing, and landowner consulting. Alex DeRoehn - Alex was born and raised in the Northeast Kingdom before attending the University [Read More...]

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1 07, 2020

Forest Landowners of the NEK

2020-07-01T13:32:53-04:00July 1st, 2020|Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

Who is responsible for stewarding Vermont’s forests? We all play a part, but when the rubber meets the road (or leaf litter), it’s YOU, the individual forest landowners, who care for most of our state’s forested land. At NorthWoods, we’ve known this for years, and the results of our recent Forest Landowner Survey reinforced this. Keep reading to hear some of the insights and statistics from 27 landowners who responded to the survey. (if you would like to participate, the survey is still open! Click here to start!) Landowners who [Read More...]

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