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Hunting for Connections
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…
Read MoreHistory on the Land – Part Two
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.…
Read MorePlanting Tomorrow’s Forest
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…
Read MoreThe Nature of Bogs
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,…
Read MoreThe Nature of Snowshoes Hares and Climate Change
By Chelsea Clarke Sawyer, Communications Coordinator In my 15 years living in Northern New England, I’ve never seen a Snowshoe Hare (Lepus americanus), despite spending plenty of time in their…
Read MoreIn Search of Vermont’s Fungi
By Dave Muska, Teacher-Naturalist It’s warm late summer’s day and fields are abuzz with the gentle call of crickets and soft swaying of goldenrod. As I step from the sun…
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