Forest Stewardship Institute

16 03, 2014

New County Forester to Support Orleans Landowners

2016-12-13T19:12:10-05:00March 16th, 2014|Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

Fifteen Orleans County residents turned out for a recent event at NorthWoods to meet Jared Nunnery, the newly appointed Orleans County Forester. We hope that many more of you will have a chance to meet Jared! “I hope to help landowners strengthen relationships with their land, as stewardship of land is driven by a strong connection with the land,” says Jared. “And for landowners who already have a well-established relationship with their land I hope to be able to provide new tools and technical resources to help them achieve their management [Read More...]

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10 02, 2014

NorthWoods Earns Recognition as a Certified Tree Farm

2016-12-13T19:12:11-05:00February 10th, 2014|Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights|

In January 2014, the 1,480-acre Spitzer Demonstration Forest at NorthWoods was accepted into the American Tree Farm System as a certified tree farm. This status recognizes forest management that meets a variety of requirements to ensure that values such as forest health, wildlife habitat, water quality, soils, and timber quality are protected and enhanced. This management is verified by trained foresters that monitor activities on each certified parcel every 5-10 years, and by third-party audits that verify compliance on a sample of tree farms in each state every year. Organized in 1941, the [Read More...]

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10 02, 2014

Orleans County Forester – Passing of the Torch

2014-02-10T13:31:47-05:00February 10th, 2014|Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

The NorthWoods Stewardship Center in East Charleston is pleased to host an Orleans County Forester meet and greet on Thursday, February 13th at 5pm. Jared Nunery was recently hired by the Vermont Department of Forest, Parks, and Recreation to serve as the first county forester dedicated to Orleans County since the late George Buzzell retired in 2009. In the interim this role has been ably filled by Ray Toolan, who shouldered duties for both Orleans and Lamoille counties. Both Ray and Jared will be on hand at this brief gathering to describe [Read More...]

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18 12, 2013

Setting the Stage for a New Bunkhouse

2016-12-13T19:12:11-05:00December 18th, 2013|Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

Two weeks of hard work in preparation for our new bunkhouse, viewable from the comfort of your armchair! Can you guess how many times it snowed in early November this year? (We lost track...) With a heap of locally-sourced logs and Dan Martin of Martin Sawmilling & Poultry Processing (Sheffield, VT) sawing up a storm, we managed to stack nearly 15,000 board feet of spruce/fir lumber on our landing before the heavy snow came. Look for these stacks to be transformed into our newest facility in spring of 2014! (To see [Read More...]

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18 12, 2013

State and Local Grants will support NorthWoods in 2014

2016-12-13T19:12:13-05:00December 18th, 2013|Conservation Corps, Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

Commissioner Michael Obuchowski of the Vermont Department of Buildings & General Services presents Ross Stevens with the grant award NorthWoods new bunkhouse received an added boost in the form of a grant from the Building Communities Grants Program of the Vermont Department of Buildings and General Services. Conservation Service Corps Director Ross Stevens gathered with Governor Shumlin, state legislators, community leaders, and grant awardees from around the state for a December ceremony at the statehouse in celebration. The grant to NorthWoods provides $15,000 toward the construction of the 20-person [Read More...]

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15 11, 2013

NorthWoods Forest Comes Alive at an Educators Workshop

2016-12-13T19:12:16-05:00November 15th, 2013|Education, Forest Stewardship Institute, News|

How long has it been since you’ve dug your hands into the dirt or looked deep into the cavity of a rotten tree? At the Project Learning Tree Educators Workshop, hosted by NorthWoods and the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation this October, adults explored these childhood pastimes from a new vantage point. We dug far enough into the dirt that a story unfolded about the geologic history and the land use patterns throughout the NorthWoods property. It made sense that a forest tour would begin with an investigation into [Read More...]

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14 11, 2013

Ross Morgan Awarded Buzzell Stewardship Award

2016-12-13T19:12:18-05:00November 14th, 2013|Forest Stewardship Institute, News|

NorthWoods’ Jayson Benoit, right, presents Ross Morgan, center, with the 2013 George Buzzell Forest Stewardship Award, with the help of Buzzell’s daughter, Rebecca Brown, left. NorthWoods Stewardship Center presented consulting forester Ross Morgan of Craftsbury with the first annual George Buzzell Forest Stewardship Award at NorthWoods’ Annual Stewardship Celebration on Friday, October. The award recognizes extraordinary commitment to the sustainable management of forests in the Northeast Kingdom. As inscribed on a plaque that hangs at NorthWoods, “George Buzzell served for 44 years as Orleans County Forester and was widely known and respected for his quick wit, knowledge, dedication to [Read More...]

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19 06, 2012

Short-Tailed Weasel (Ermine)

2022-02-14T11:03:29-05:00June 19th, 2012|Mammal Atlas|

Mustela erminea photo credit: Fabio Bretto (Flickr) ID Summer coat is brown with white underbelly, but turns pure white in the winter with a black tail-tip (Smithsonian) Short legs and white feet (Audubon) Distribution    Reproduction Mate in June or July, but egg implantation is delayed for 9 to 10 months Active gestation lasts about 1 month Litter of 4-9 young born in April (Audubon) Behavior Highly adaptable predators, sometimes climbing trees or swimming to catch their prey (Smithsonian) Will lick the blood of their prey before eating it [Read More...]

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19 06, 2012

Long-Tailed Weasel

2016-12-13T19:12:25-05:00June 19th, 2012|Mammal Atlas|

Mustela frenata photo credit: Roger W. Barbour (Smithsonian) ID Long, slender body with long neck Yellowish-white underparts with brown top parts Black tail-tip (Burt) Turn white in the winter, but maintain the black tail-tip (Audubon) Distribution   Reproduction Young born in litters of 4-8 in April or May Midsummer mating season Gestation of 205-314 days (Audubon) Behavior Most widespread carnivore in the Western Hemisphere Will sometimes go on killing sprees, instincts telling them to procure food when it is available and cache it for later (Audubon) Both males and [Read More...]

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19 06, 2012

Star-Nosed Mole

2022-10-05T11:23:27-04:00June 19th, 2012|Mammal Atlas|

Condylura cristata photo credit: G.C. Hickman, American Society of Mammologists (Smithsonian) ID 22 fleshy projections on nose Black fur Long, hairy tail Large digging forelegs with large claws (Audubon) Distribution   Reproduction Litters of 4-7 young usually born between April and May, but sometimes later Gestation lasts about 45 days (Audubon) Behavior Fingerlike nasal appendages are used for object manipulation, and possibly detection of electrical signals in water indicating the presence of prey (Smithsonian) Depends on water foraging in the winter when the frozen ground makes it difficult to [Read More...]

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