Restoring Crooked Creek with Women and Our Woods VT

What is a healthy stream supposed to look like? Join Women and Our Woods Vermont and other women landowners, land managers and individuals who are interested in learning more about what constitutes a healthy stream and what we can do to restore stream function and processes to existing watersheds. VLT Ecologist Allaire Diamond and VLT Forester Caitlin Cusack will take us on a tour of the watershed restoration work in the Crooked Creek headwater drainage on the Button Farm in Colchester two and a half years after a dam has been removed. The work began in 2021 and includes instream wood addition, dam removal, wetland restoration, ‘Stage Zero’ stream restoration, plantings, and control of introduced weeds in the context of a working farm and rapidly developing community.  Allaire and Caitlin will share details on each of the restoration activities, how they complement each other, and how private and public landowners can initiate this work on their own land. 

Event Leaders:

• Allaire Diamond, Ecologist – Vermont Land Trust
• Caitlin Cusack, Forester – Vermont Land Trust 

 The rain date will be Wednesday May 28th at 10AM.

WOW-VT is a collaborative women-centered community that shares information and offers support for people who take care of Vermont’s forests. Steering committee members include professionals from Vermont Coverts, Vermont Woodlands Association, Vermont Land Trust, Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, Audubon Vermont, and Vermont Department of Forests Parks and Recreation.