By Sean Beckett, Program Director, with excerpts from Marine Ecology students NBNC’s first Marine Ecology course participants are back from their week-long research trip to Bermuda with lots of stories…
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By Naomi Heindel, Executive Director This week, like so many throughout the year, North Branch Nature Center is hopping with volunteers. Master Gardeners from the UVM Extension Vermont Master Gardener…
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By Sean Beckett, Program Director Herbicide is a dirty word among many who care deeply about the protection of nature. Understandable, considering that many of our worst environmental disasters have…
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By Chelsea Clarke Sawyer, Communications Coordinator Last year, I counted the rings on our freshly cut Christmas tree and found 11, which I learned was a pretty standard age for…
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By Allison Waring, Montpelier High School Science Teacher Deep in a hemlock forest, on a slope overlooking the North Branch River Valley, I close my eyes. If I concentrate hard…
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By Naomi Heindel, Executive Director and Chelsea Clarke Sawyer, Communications Coordinator Our Executive Director Naomi Heindel sat down with three staff who are also hunters to talk about how hunting…
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By Samantha Ford, Owner of Turn Stone Research Editor’s Note: Read Part One of this series, focusing on the Nye family’s time at NBNC from 1792 through the 1840s, here.…
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By Sean Beckett, Program Director Live in Vermont for 30 years, and you think you know maple trees — until you try to grow some! Last spring our Vermont Master…
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By Chelsea Clarke Sawyer, Communications Coordinator I can remember every bog I’ve ever visited. There’s Orono Bog, Molly Bog, the Babcock Nature Preserve bog, Moose Bog, Peacham Bog, Chickering Fen,…
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By Dr. Opeyemi Parham, donor of NBNC’s new yurt Editor’s note: NBNC has received the generous donation of a yurt, “Dot’s Place,” from Montpelier resident Dr. Opeyemi Parham. The yurt,…
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