Events
Cold Comfort: Winter Wildlife Adaptations
Vermont wildlife knows how to get creative when it comes to the winter months. Join NPS Science Communication Specialist Ed Sharron on Saturday, February 22nd, from 10am-12pm to learn who is active and who is hibernating during these harsh winter months. Ed…
Walk in the Woods: Tracks & Trees
Join Lynn Levine on Saturday, February 22 (bad weather day is Sunday, February 23), from 1-4 PM for a workshop in Dummerston on a 200-acre deeryard. Participants will learn to think like the animals they are tracking and connect with the forested…
Training: Hemlock Wooly Adelgid Monitoring Workshop
Saturday, February 29th, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm, Holley Hall, 1 South Street, Bristol VT Hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) is a destructive invasive insect that has already been detected on hemlock trees in southern Vermont. Learn to monitor and slow the spread…
Trees for Streams
Join us on Saturday, February 29th from 9-11am to learn about riparian buffers along our streams and their impact on water quality. Lisa Niccolai and Ron Rhodes will cover river restoration techniques and design, tree and shrub ordering and planting, potential funding…
Winter Wildlife Tracking at Saint-Gaudens NHP
Learn about how to identify the tracks and signs of the many critters that share your backyard and national parks on Saturday, March 7th from 10am-12pm. We’ll start with a 1 hour indoor presentation exploring tracks animal movements, then head out into…
Old Growth, Carbon, and Forest Management at the Hinesburg Town Forest
“Old Growth” is a term that is familiar to many, although most have never seen it. The definition of “old growth” forests is somewhat contentious in the forestry world, generally accepted to mean forests which have developed somewhat independent of human disturbance…
iNaturalist Tutorial
Join the National Park and the Vermont Center for Ecostudies on Saturday, March 21st from 9-11am for a workshop on how to use the citizen science tool iNaturalist to collect data and learn about the species that surround us. Please bring your…
Vermont Coverts Woodlands for Wildlife Cooperator Training
May 8-10 at Common Ground Center, Starksboro Join VT Coverts for our Woodlands for Wildlife Cooperator Training. This weekend retreat provides an opportunity for those who care about woodlands and wildlife to learn about the resources available to help them define and reach…