Learn the identification, conservation, and habitat management of Vermont’s reptiles with herpetologist Jim Andrews. Begins January 2022. Register soon!
Weighing in on Vermont’s Climate Action Plan
by David Brynn, VFF Executive Director and Conservation Forester This week, the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Climate Council held stakeholder meetings for forest landowners, forest products industries, and conservation organizations to offer feedback about the State’s proposed Climate Action Plan. Vermont Family Forests Executive Director David Brynn participated, and he submitted the following words to the public record. My …
Woodwinds near the Middle Barn
In July we celebrated summer with our 10th Annual Woodwinds in the Middle Barn concert.
Bringing Wild Forests to Vermont’s Use Value Program
VFF Executive Director David Brynn describes the efforts of Wild Forests Vermont to amend Vermont’s Current Use Program to include wild forests.
West Barn Comes Down
We’ve just completed step 1 of the restoration of the West Barn at VFF’s Anderson Wells Farm. Video and photos tell the story.
Sharing the Bounty of Farm Equipment
As we prepared the West Barn for its foundation-to-rooftop renovation, we passed along some of Lester and Monique Anderson’s beautiful farm equipment to new homes in the Center-West Ecoregion.
CHEP’s Newest Study: Long-term Forest Ecosystem Monitoring
Since 1998, the Colby Hill Ecological Project (CHEP) has collected ecological data on an area of private land in Lincoln and Bristol, Vermont, owned for some 50 years by Lester and Monique Anderson, who left it in Vermont Family Forests’ care when they passed. Much of CHEP’s long-term monitoring focuses on wildlife—forest birds, small mammals, reptiles and amphibians, and large mammal tracking, …
VFF Loves VYCC
For a week in July, a crew from the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps helped slow, spread, and sink the flow of stormwater runoff on VFF’s Abraham’s Knees land.
Summer Weekend Game of Logging, Levels 1 & 2
Register through Eventbrite WHEN: Level I: Saturday, July 17, 2021, 8AM – 4PM (FULL, with many on the waiting list) Level II: Sunday, July 18, 2021 8AM-4PM WHERE: Little Hogback Community Forest, Monkton, VT HOW MUCH: $200 per level WHAT: The Game of Logging training program combines Scandinavian logging techniques with the latest systems for working safely around trees. We cannot …
Restoring the West Barn From Foundation to Rooftop
The West Barn at VFF’s Anderson Wells Farm will be restored from foundation to rooftop this summer.
