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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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1 03, 2024

Sharpening Skills

2024-03-06T14:24:35-05:00March 1st, 2024|Conservation Corps, Highlights, News|

Workshop teacher Larry Walters measures crosscut blades. The Conservation Corps team had fun this February attending a two-day Cross Cut Sharpening and Maintenance course hosted by Larry Walters of Rutland, VT, a former U.S. Forest Service employee. Larry was a wealth of knowledge in the realm of crosscut saws, their maintenance, and the precision-based tools that are involved in the process of sharpening them. Larry was very happy to host Corps team Dusty, Blase, and Charles and pass this lost art form on in hopes that NorthWoods will steward and [Read More...]

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27 02, 2024

Our Seeds go to Svalbard!

2024-02-28T12:55:34-05:00February 27th, 2024|Conservation science, Highlights, News, Riparian Lands|

Some of these adorable baby trees are now chilling, perhaps for 100 years or more, in a drawer in Norway! Last fall the Riparian Lands crew teamed up with the Statewide Seed Coordinator at Intervale Center to collect gray birch in the Champlain Valley and with our ECO AmeriCorps member Sarah Redman, here in Brighton, VT. Some of the seeds from both collections were later sent to the North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station in Ames, Iowa to be tested and stored long-term. These samples currently have a 96%-98% [Read More...]

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9 01, 2024

Charles Hill

2024-03-20T20:09:14-04:00January 9th, 2024|Corps Staff, Staff|

Charles Hill was born and raised on the shoreline of Connecticut in the town of Clinton. His love for the outdoors started when he was in the Boy Scouts where hiking and camping became hobbies that he enjoyed outside of the Scouts. After graduating high school in 2013, not really knowing what to expect, Charles had taken a summer job working at the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge with the YCC as a crew member. This is where Charles discovered that he wanted to work in the outdoors; he changed [Read More...]

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9 01, 2024

Jessica Colby

2024-06-06T13:27:38-04:00January 9th, 2024|Con Sci Staff, Staff|

Jessica Colby knew from a young age that she wanted to work in conservation. She grew up enjoying time spent out in the woods behind her house, discovering all the different plants and animals that could be found there. In 2017, she graduated from the University of Vermont with a bachelor’s degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology and a minor in Forestry. While in school, Jess was an active member of the UVM Fish and Wildlife Society, volunteering extensively with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department for several events including the [Read More...]

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9 01, 2024

Devan Pensinger

2024-03-20T20:06:52-04:00January 9th, 2024|FSI Staff, Staff|

Devan has had a lifelong love of the natural world that led her to pursue a career in the outdoors learning about and advocating for flora, fauna, and landscapes that bring her so much joy. She graduated from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry with a degree in Conservation Biology. Upon graduation she moved back to Colorado, where she grew up, and worked in a variety of seasonal field ecology positions. Some highlights included collecting meteorological data in the winter on the continental divide, spending summers monitoring flora in environments [Read More...]

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9 01, 2024

Katlynn Vredenburgh

2024-03-20T20:09:23-04:00January 9th, 2024|Education Staff, Staff|

Katlynn was raised with a love for the outdoors. As a kid, she spent her days searching for salamanders in her backyard creek, pestering snakes pretending to be the Crocodile Hunter and going on hikes with her family. So, it’s no wonder she incorporated that love in her international studies bachelor’s degree from Cazenovia College by focusing her senior capstone on anthrozoology and the role of wildlife photography in conservation. After bouncing around upstate New York working as a substitute teacher, a service provider for kids with developmental disabilities, and an [Read More...]

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8 01, 2024

Susan Moore

2024-01-08T15:28:20-05:00January 8th, 2024|Staff|

Susan is originally from upstate New York – just on the other side of Lake Champlain and about one hour south of Montreal. With a Father of Native American (Mohawk) and Irish descent, and a Mother of French Canadian descent, Susan grew up with a strong work ethic and a healthy respect and love of nature and the land. During her career, Susan has enjoyed the opportunity to work for Walt Disney World in Florida managing various restaurants for close to 10 years. Then she moved back to the North Country where she worked for over [Read More...]

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8 01, 2024

Kelsey Evans

2024-01-08T15:27:06-05:00January 8th, 2024|Staff|

Originally from the ‘Quiet Corner’ of Northeastern Connecticut, Kelsey found her way to the NEK after transferring to Sterling College in Craftsbury, VT, where she earned a Bachelors in Anthrozoology. Kelsey has 10+ years experience in the art of web design and development, building websites for artists, farms, small businesses and non-profit organizations. At NorthWoods, she enjoys striving to design online and print materials that appropriately convey the passion, hard work and authenticity of the organization and the beauty of the Northeast Kingdom. When not promoting NorthWoods programs, Kelsey strives to continue [Read More...]

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8 01, 2024

Dusty May

2024-03-20T20:07:04-04:00January 8th, 2024|Corps Staff, Staff|

Dusty May was born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina, but has lived in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont for 8 years and has discovered that he is a Vermonter at heart. He moved here to join his Vermont wife on an old hippie commune where they remodeled a house together, and he fell in love with the state and the Northeast Kingdom. Dusty graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business. He grew up in the outdoors camping, hunting, and fishing. In addition to this [Read More...]

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