Forest Stewardship Institute

26 02, 2018

Take a Look: Low-Impact Forestry in the Works

2018-02-26T18:11:18-05:00February 26th, 2018|Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

What are our forestry staff up to this winter? Right now the job is working on a low-impact harvest for a landowner in West Charleston using our tractor and forwarding trailer. According to FSI staffer Sam Perron: "This entry is focused on thinning a Norway spruce plantation to improve future timber quality, creating canopy gaps to help transition this softwood plantation toward native hardwoods (mostly sugar maple, red maple, black cherry), and removing some balsam fir trees in a younger hardwood forest, where the larger balsams have a high risk of [Read More...]

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28 11, 2017

Win a Chance to Party in the Bunkhouse!

2017-12-19T09:36:29-05:00November 28th, 2017|Conservation Corps, Education, Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

Win a chance for a free rental of the Bunkhouse! Hold a party for your closest friends in the beautiful NEK woods on any eligible date. You'll get use of the full bunkhouse with 16 bunks, common area, wood stove, and radiant floor heating! Plus, enjoy miles of trails to hike, ski, or snowshoe (depending on the time of year), right out the front door! Clyde river access nearby for those who prefer to paddle. Click below to get your tickets! Buy a Ticket for $15 Buy 5 [Read More...]

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20 11, 2017

Corps Wraps up 2017 Fall Field Season

2017-11-27T11:36:28-05:00November 20th, 2017|Conservation Corps, Education, Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

The Conservation Corps fall crew is wrapping up a busy field season filled with projects across the Northeast Kingdom. The crew worked in partnership with private landowners and the Essex County Natural Resources Conservation District (ECNRCD) to tackle water quality and erosion issues at Maidstone Lake by building rain gardens, infiltration steps, driveway waterbars, dripline trenches, planting trees and shrubs, and improving drainages. This work was made possible with funding provided by the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation Ecosystem Restoration Program (ERP) grant. Farther south, the crew built a river access [Read More...]

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5 11, 2017

Dan Kilborn Recieves 5th Annual Buzzell Award

2021-01-05T14:48:23-05:00November 5th, 2017|Forest Stewardship Institute|

Photo by Reciprocity Studio. NorthWoods Stewardship Center is pleased to announce Vermont Land Trust forester Dan Kilborn as the recipient of the fifth annual George Buzzell Forest Stewardship Award. In honor of the esteemed county forester for which it is named, this award recognizes an individual who is making a positive impact on NEK forests. As the VLT forester for the Northeast Kingdom, Dan is a gifted communicator who understands that good management comes from a strong connection to the land, and works daily to educate landowners and the public in [Read More...]

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26 10, 2017

VT FPR Commissioner Michael Snyder Checks in at NorthWoods

2017-10-26T14:00:02-04:00October 26th, 2017|Conservation Corps, Education, Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

On October 24th, NorthWoods invited VT FPR Commissioner Michael Snyder to campus to converse with staff about the outdoor recreation movement in the NEK and throughout Vermont. The group discussed the history of the department, and that while FPR stands for Forest, Parks and Recreation, throughout history not much attention has been made on the state level to Recreation. In an effort to address this, Governor Scott has recently instituted the Vermont Outdoor Recreation Economic Collaborative (VOREC) – a public forum attempting to make living and recreating in Vermont more collaborative. [Read More...]

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10 10, 2017

Seeking Landowners for Water Quality Improvement Projects

2017-10-10T16:03:08-04:00October 10th, 2017|Conservation Corps, Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

NorthWoods is seeking landowners who are interested in designing water quality improvement projects on their lakeshore. Through a 2017-2018 Ecosystem Restoration Program (ERP) Grant from the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (VT DEC), NorthWoods Stewardship Center is able to provide free designs of Best Management Practices (BMPs) for lakeshore landowners on Echo Lake and Seymour Lake. BMPs protect and improve water quality in our lakes by reducing stormwater runoff and sediment loading from lakeshore properties. BMPs treat stormwater by reducing its velocity and redirecting it to a treatment area where it [Read More...]

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13 09, 2017

NorthWoods Accepting Nominations for 5th Annual Buzzell Award

2017-09-13T14:49:54-04:00September 13th, 2017|Conservation Corps, Education, Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

NorthWoods Stewardship Center is pleased to accept nominations for the fifth annual George Buzzell Forest Stewardship Award. In honor of the esteemed county forester for which it is named, this award recognizes an individual who is making a positive impact on Northeast Kingdom forests. An award ceremony will be held at the NorthWoods Stewardship Center on Wednesday, November 15, 2017. 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 [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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1 08, 2017

Volunteers tackle invasives in East Burke

2017-08-01T15:51:08-04:00August 1st, 2017|Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

A group of 15 people joined forces on a sunny, late July day to remove exotic invasive plants from the banks of the East Branch Passumpsic River in downtown East Burke. If you’ve visited RubyLee’s Ice Cream, East Burke Sports, or taken a dip in the river after biking at Kingdom Trails, you’ve probably seen the dense walls of vegetation along the river banks. What you may not have noticed is that this vegetation includes five invasive plant species – knotweed, shrub honeysuckle, common reed, glossy buckthorn, and burning bush – [Read More...]

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27 06, 2017

Help Protect Our Trails

2017-06-27T15:52:48-04:00June 27th, 2017|Conservation Corps, Education, Forest Stewardship Institute, Highlights, News|

NorthWoods needs your help to steward the trails in our 1,500 acre forest. Our Hopkins Hill Trail has become rutted from unauthorized ATVs and off-road vehicle use. While we recognize that off-roading is one way to enjoy the outdoors, recreational motorized vehicles are prohibited from trails on the NorthWoods property. This includes the trail extending from Hopkins Hill Rd (0.3 miles from the Tripp Hill Rd intersection) to Calhoun Rd (0.25 miles beyond last house on Calhoun Rd). Both ends of this trail (0.3 mile and 0.25 mile segments) are designated [Read More...]

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