Hinesburgers Explore a Local Treasure On the Saturday before Father’s Day my long-promised excursion to Williams Woods in Charlotte came to be. My two daughters, my wife and I got in the car and set off around 10 a.m. But first we had to go back to the house to connect to Google maps…
When: Jun 22, 2024, 9 to 11 AM Where: Hayden Hill Road East, Hinesburg, VT URL: fb.me/e/26F95oR09 It is well known that some fungi are decomposers, but did you know that they can also eat plastic, clean up oil spills, hunt for prey, and enable trees to talk to each other? Did you know…
What is stormwater, and how can you help manage it to promote healthier watersheds? How To Manage Stormwater to Promote Healthier Watersheds: An Ahead of the Storm Guide was recently published to help you assess and understand where problems might be occurring on the land near you, and what opportunities there are to improve these…
The Triad Approach to a Functional Forested Landscape We can put the ways that forests benefit our lives and our quality of life into three general categories: ecological, economic, and cultural. The ecological benefits of forests include how they clean our air and our water, regulate our climate, and do much, much more –…
Non-native invasive plant species have long threatened the health of ecosystems, wildlife habitat, and populations of native plants in the Lewis Creek watershed. Management can be difficult because they are easily spread via seeds, roots, fragments, animals, and humans. Japanese knotweed is a particularly tough plant to remove. It was introduced from East Asia…
Landowners often ask me: “is my forest healthy?” While this may seem like a simple question, the more time I spend working with forests, the more difficult it is to answer. While most people picture a healthy forest as one with lots of healthy trees, when we take a more holistic and expansive view of…
What does it mean to manage forests for birds? While this may seem like a simple question, it’s actually almost impossible to answer. What we call birds includes everything from ducks and gulls to hawks and herons, from woodpeckers to hummingbirds, from turkeys to turkey vultures. Vermont is home to more than 80 species…
At one time or another, I expect that many of us have wondered if it is better to be a specialist or a generalist – to try to be great at one thing or to be passable at many different things. Across deep time, Earth’s millions of species have “asked” this same question, again and…
and Carol Greenhouse, Special Projects Director 5 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 27 Sleepy Hollow in Huntington invites Nordic neophytes, seasoned skate skiers, intrepid snowshoers, passionate romantics, curious families, and anyone else who likes a unique activity to traverse the moonlit forest at the Second Annual Full Moon Ski Party from 5 to…
While some people call all evergreen trees “pines,” pines are actually a distinct group of closely-related trees in the Pinus genus. While Vermont is home to four species of native pines, the two most common are Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus), and red pine (Pinus resinosa). Of these two species, white pine is by far…