VFF weighs in on Wild Forests and Vermont’s Current Use Program

VFF weighs in on Wild Forests and Vermont’s Current Use Program

VFF’s David Brynn recently testified to the Vermont House Natural Resources Committee on proposed changes to Vermont’s Use Value program.

A beaver swims across Norton Brook Reservoir at The Lands of the Watershed Center, Bristol.

EARTH ALIVE! Applying an Earth-centered Worldview in the Forested Watersheds of Home

EARTH ALIVE! Watch David Brynn’s recent presentation to the Lewis Creek Association.

A smartphone displays a property map in the Avenza mapping app and rests on a paper map of the same property.

Mapping app brings a little Hogwarts to Family Forestry

At Vermont Family Forests, we’ve been using the mapping app, Avenza, in the forests we work in.

On Vermont Family Forests' forestland known as Abraham's Knees, careful handiwork creates lines of grace.

Lines of Grace at Abraham’s Knees

We’re building a new access trail at the Abraham’s Knees forest on the side of Mount Abraham.

Beaver dam floods main trail at the Lands of the Watershed Center.

Co-thriving With Beavers

When beavers flooded the main trail at The Waterworks in Bristol, commoners stepped in with a win-win solution.

John McNerney's log forwarder with logs on it in the forest.

One Landowner’s Toolkit

VFF landowner John McNerney revels in the tools of careful, small scale woods work. Join us as we head into the woods with him.

Spoon carved from common buckthorn, an invasive exotic understory tree.

An Organic Approach to Invasive Exotic Forest Plants

Autumn is a good time to get to know, and organically treat, the invasive exotic plants in your forest.

Coyote photographed by remote wildlife camera at VFF's Wells Farm.

Why we don’t permit coyote hunting

We were recently asked why we don’t allow coyote hunting on the lands we hold. Here’s our response.

The cidery building at Wells Farm, on its new stone foundation.

At Vermont Family Forests’ Anderson Wells Farm in Lincoln, a sweet, simple, 12′ x 20′ barn stands at the head of the long, apple tree-lined driveway. Likely built 80 or so years ago, the barn’s sills were set close to the ground, inviting moisture, and as a result, the dirt-floored barn was slowly rotting from the ground up. This summer, …

Vermont Family Forests organic forestry bumper sticker.

New Bumper Sticker Celebrates Organic Forestry

Turn over a rock or two at the edge of a mountain stream, and you’re likely to uncover a salamander. Chances are, it’ll be a northern dusky (Desmognathus fuscus) or a two-lined (Eurycea bislineata)—they’re both common in this habitat. Crouched along a seepy brook at Vermont Family Forests’ Abraham’s Knees land in Lincoln, I strike gold on my second try. As …