Vermont Woodlands Resources
Woodlands and Climate Change
10 Recommendations to help you manage Ash in your woods in the face of EAB and Climate Change
Ash is an important part of the forests in the Northeast. If you are lucky to have ash trees in your woods, they bring unique assets. Sadly, ash species are facing attack by the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), an invasive wood-boring insect…
July 2020 Forest Health Insect and Disease Observations report
| Date:August 7, 2020July continued to follow the warming trend, with higher temperatures and similar rainfall as the previous year. Statewide temperatures averaged 71°F, which was 2°F warmer than last year. Statewide precipitation averaged 3.93 inches, which was 0.54 inches more than July of last…
March 2020 Forest Health Insect and Disease Observations report
Vermonters faced a short and mild winter of 2019-2020, compared to years past. From December 1 to February 29, statewide temperatures averaged 23°F, which was four degrees warmer than the winter of 2018– 2019. Average precipitation across the state was 9.47 inches,…
Harvesting Biomass from Your Woods
Author:Paul Catanzaro, Dave Kittredge, Marla Markowski-Lindsay | Organization:University of Massachusetts Amherst | Date:January 1, 2011INTRODUCTION Forests have always been an important part of life in New England. In fact, for as long as people have lived here, they have looked to the forests to meet their needs, including heat and energy. Though the challenges we face…
Forest Health Update May 2019
Author:Insect and Disease Observations | Organization:Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, & Recreation | Date:May 1, 2019The Month of May Remained Wet and Relatively Chilly Vermont had some cool, wet episodes this month (or maybe just one long one?), including a May nor’easter that brought four inches of snow to parts of the state on May 13-14. Much…
Policy Brief: Renewable Energy
Author:Vermont Woodlands Board | | Date:February 16, 2018Public Policy Issue Brief: Renewable Wood Energy from Vermont Forests Background: Private forests have great potential to contribute to the next generation of Vermont energy use, through the increased utilization of wood as a component of a renewable energy portfolio. Vermont has…
Policy Brief: Level the Playing Field
Author:Vermont Woodlands Board | | Date:March 17, 2017Public Policy Issue Brief: Level the Playing Field for Vermont’s Forest Landowners, Foresters, and Harvesters Background Vermont’s Forests play a major social, economic, recreational, and environmental role in the state, perhaps even greater than ever now that the state faces the task…
Adapting Forests to Climate Change
Author:Keith Thompson and Joanne Garton | Organization:Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation | Date:January 1, 2019Summary of Content: The following link speaks to how Vermont has undergone serious climate change over the past 50 years, specifically causing a drought throughout summer 2016 and 2017. This also impacts where certain plants and animals thrive or do not. Certain…