Tuesday, January 25th @ 12:00-1:00 p.m. Professor Tony D'Amato will discuss potential strategies for prioritizing ash preservation to meet ecological, silvicultural, and cultural objectives. The introduced emerald ash borer threatens to functionally eliminate ash from forests in the northeastern United…
Tuesday, January 18th @ 12:00-1:00 p.m. The invasive pests, hemlock woolly adelgid and elongate hemlock scale are increasing their range in the Northeast, stressing this keystone species. Forest health specialists with Vermont's Departments of Forests, Parks and Recreation, Jim Esden…
Thursday, January 13th @ 12:00-1:00 p.m. Join Audubon VT Conservation Fellow Cassie Wolfanger for a webinar on our winter birds in Vermont. During the coldest months, our woodlands can be refuges, waterfowl concentrate on ice-free water, many backyard residents flock…
Tuesday, January 11th @ 12:00-1:00 p.m. Invasive earthworms have probably been in Vermont for a few centuries. The early earthworm invaders were from Europe, but now new Asian species form a second wave of invasions. This webinar by Professor Josef…
Monday, January 10th @ 4 p.m. World leaders and diplomats from nearly 200 countries attended the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, to set new targets for cutting global greenhouse gas emissions. Penn State attendee Michael…
Tuesday, January 11th @ 1:00 p.m. The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment and OrionMagazine are pleased to announce that we are continuing the conversation we began with "Celebrating Old Growth." We present a second event in this series called…
Tuesday, January 18th @ 6-7PM Richard Greene will speak at the Pittsfield Green Drinks January meeting on Tuesday, January 18th at 6 p.m. via Zoom. Richard will talk about his experience with wildlife tracking and the many places this…
Saturday, January 29th @ 10:00-11:30AM Discover what the winter lives of the ever-busy beavers at Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary consist of. We will take a short walk over sloping and sometimes wet or rocky trails to explore the beaver ponds…
Saturday, January 15th @ 6:30-8:00PM Enjoy a moonlit evening walking and listening to the sounds of the night. We will take a gentle walk learning about what goes on in the forest at night, with just the light of the…
Tuesday, January 18th @ 7 p.m. via Zoom Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. In this inspiring video, Leah Penniman lays out the history of our racist…