Saturday, March 21st – CANCELED Retired Windham County Forester Bill Guenther will once again lead a tour to a Somerset woodlot in what is believed to be a stand of old growth, mostly of yellow birch. This 60-acre property was a gift to Leland & Gray High School many years ago. About 12–15 acres of […]
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Sugar House Tour 2020
CANCELED Saturday, March 28th – 11:00 a.m. Bensch Mountain Maple in Newfane, Vermont The annual WRWA Sugar House tour will be hosted by Bensch Mountain Maple in Newfane. Bensch Mountain is a unique facility in that it is a brand new facility built in 2018. It is a state of the art facility that still […]
Deer, invasives, residual density and forest regeneration.
CANCELED Friday & Saturday, May 15 and 16 Jeffrey Ward, Chief Scientist from the Department of Forestry and Horticulture at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station 130 Austine Drive, Holton Hall 4th Floor, Brattleboro, Vermont At 7:00 p.m. Friday evening, May 15, and on a woods walk the next morning. The woods walk will be at […]
Treating Your Woodlot as a Business
Thursday, November 7th – 6:30 p.m.Holton Hall, 130 Austine Dr. Brattleboro Lead by George Weir, a private consulting forester with more than forty years of experience in our area and Sam Schneski, our Windham County forester, there will be discussion about Use Value Appraisal, growing timber for profit, state and federal programs for woodland improvement, […]
Green Burial Workshop
Thursday, November 21st – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.Holton Hall, 130 Austine Dr. Brattleboro More and more people are asking for environmentally responsible burial options that reflect their personal values. The practice of burying bodies without embalming with toxic chemicals, encasing in metal or rainforest wood caskets, or cement or plastic outer vaults—truly body to earth—is timeless, interrupted only […]
