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Field Notes

Curious about the fields, farms, and forests right outside your door? Who lives there and what can we learn from them? Uncover something new with our essays, tips, and insights from the field.

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Identify summer wildflowers in Vermont
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Identify summer wildflowers in Vermont

5 Min Read

Spring Songbirds in Vermont
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Spring Songbirds in Vermont

10 Min Read

Farms in flux
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Farms in flux

10 Min Read

Leave it to beavers
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Leave it to beavers

11 Min Read

Ten old growth forests to visit in Vermont
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Ten old growth forests to visit in Vermont

4 Min Read

Engaging the next generation of Vermont land stewards
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Engaging the next generation of Vermont land stewards

7 Min Read

Q&A: Home grown
low-to-the-ground view of farm field with produce growing, and a female farm worker in the middle distance
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Q&A: Home grown

8 Min Read Farms & Local Food
Family at the heart
A woman holds a smiling todler while reaching a hand out to a calf.
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Family at the heart

5 Min Read Farms & Local Food
Living life to the fullest: accessible trails in Vermont
two men in wheelchairs on a boardwalk. summer.
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Living life to the fullest: accessible trails in Vermont

12 Min Read Recreation
Spring Songbirds in Vermont
A grayish brown bird with a brilliant yellow throat, the Common Yellowthroat opens its mouth to sing from a small tree branch.
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Spring Songbirds in Vermont

10 Min Read Wildlife & Nature
Happy trails in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom
Man sits on bench next to fat bike in the snow facing a sunny mountain view.
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Happy trails in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom

2 Min Read Recreation
Spring in Vermont’s watersheds: wetland and floodplain plants
close up of wetland plant with tiny leaves and green-petaled flowers and brick-red red pollen clusters. Golden saxifrage is often found in seeps and at the edges of wetlands in our watersheds.
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Spring in Vermont’s watersheds: wetland and floodplain plants

5 Min Read Wildlife & Nature
Farms in flux
farmer standing in snowy farmyard with red barn behind and tractor far left. Matt Linehan of Sparrow Arc Farm in Guildhall Vermont is one of many Vermont farmers dealing with climate change
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Farms in flux

10 Min Read Climate & Carbon
Leave it to beavers
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Leave it to beavers

11 Min Read Wildlife & Nature
Q&A: Taking the long view
sunny aerial of farm fields in valley with hills on either side. Mettowee Valley, Vermont. Conserved farmland.
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Q&A: Taking the long view

8 Min Read People & Communities
Engaging the next generation of Vermont land stewards
Two students plant a tree in a floodplain field ringed by trees.
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Engaging the next generation of Vermont land stewards

7 Min Read People & Communities
Ten old growth forests to visit in Vermont
Close up of bright orange slime mold on a fallen log in an old growth forest.
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Ten old growth forests to visit in Vermont

4 Min Read Trees & Forests
Small state, big impact: How donating land and stock brought one retired couple peace of mind
An elderly white couple who chose to donate their Vermont land
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Small state, big impact: How donating land and stock brought one retired couple peace of mind

4 Min Read People & Communities

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