Lewis Creek Association (LCA) and landowners have partnered to plan for improvements to water quality in Lewis Creek. The projects LCA investigated were identified as high priority areas or projects in stream geomorphic assessments and a watershed management plan completed over a decade ago. With funding from Watersheds United Vermont Project Development Block grant…
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Fungi of Hinesburg Walk
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…
Lewis Creek Association and Partners Release New Stormwater Guidance Manual for Landowners
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…
Lewis Creek Association to Combat Japanese Knotweed in Watershed
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…
Bird-Friendly Habitat Management at Geprags Park
and Tobiah Schulman, Conservation Commission member The Hinesburg Conservation Commission (HCC) has partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program to continue habitat management at Geprags Park in 2024. Work took place the weekend of February 23-25, 2024, and involved cutting and grinding woody vegetation to both…
Managing Forests for Resilience
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…
Managing Forests for Birds
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…
Sleepy Hollow Hosts Full Moon Ski Party
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…
Red Pine: A Profile
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…
Lewis Creek Association and United Church of Hinesburg to Restore Wetlands
and Kate Kelly, LCA Program Manager Lewis Creek Association is excited to announce that funding from Watersheds United Vermont and the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (VT DEC) will allow us to convert a playing field behind the United Church of Hinesburg (UCH) back to a wetland. We have contracted with K. Bellavance, who…