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 as the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), Natural Resource Conservation Districts (NRCDs) US Fish & Wildlife Service, or the Connecticut River Watershed Council (CRWS), NorthWoods works to complete tree planting projects such as this one which benefit human and natural communities alike in the Northern Forest of Vermont and New Hampshire!
