Presentations and Recordings

Welcome to our hub of webinars, videos, presentations, and more. Missed a live broadcast? Here's where you can find recordings of our webinars. Stay connected and curious in the natural world! Looking for an upcoming program? Please visit our Calendar.

Naturalist Journeys 2025

This year's series focuses on making healthy and sustainable forests in Vermont. How should we weigh competing forest management goals? Is timber harvesting at odds with biodiversity? Can felling a tree save a bird? When can logging be a radical act of compassion? How do Vermont's ecological foresters make choices? What happens when we restore a forest's wild autonomy? We hope you'll join the discussion!

How to Love a Forest: Discussion and Book Launch with Ethan Tapper
December 10, 2024 | 6:30 - 8 PM
Ecological Forestry: Boots on the Ground with Alex Barrett
January 16, 2025 | 6:30 - 8 PM
Flexing Forests: Managing Woodlands for Adaptability and Uncertainty
January 30, 2025 | 6:30 - 8 PM
Wilderness Works Too: The Promise of Passive Rewilding with Shelby Perry
February 6, 2025 | 6:30 - 8 PM
Forest Management is for the Birds with Steve Hagenbuch
February 11, 2025 | 6:30 - 8 PM
What Land & What Next? How to Protect Forests in Changing Times with Caitlin Cusack
February 18, 2025 | 6:30 - 8 PM

2020-2024 Naturalist Journeys Recordings

Understanding Forest Carbon: How Forests Mitigate Climate Change with Ali Kosiba | March 5 2024

Getting to 30 by 30: The Science and Stories of Conserving Land with Gus Goodwin | February 13 2024

Stories from the Poles: Science and Adventure in Greenland and Antarctica with Ruth Heindel | Feb 6 2024

Coming Back Home: Turning Towards Uncertainty, Wonder and Connection with Amy Butler | Feb 1 2024

Under the Smoke: Boreal Forest Wildfires and Culture in Northern Quebec with Naomi Heindel | Jan 26 2024

Wool Rugs, Grazing Sheep, and Climate Change with Kimberly Hagen | Jan 23 2024

Dam It: Partnering with Beavers to Heal the Planet with Ben Goldfarb | Jan 16 2024

History on the Land at NBNC with Sam Ford | Mar 15 2023

The Bees of Vermont with Spencer Hardy | Mar 8 2023

The Wolves and Moose of Isle Royale with Ky and Lisa Koitzsch | Mar 2 2023

The Spread of Deer Ticks in North America with Lucas Price | Feb 15 2023

On Safari: Wildlife Adventures Around the World with Sean Beckett | Feb 7 2023

Indigenous Plant Uses in Southern Greenland with Dr. Simone Whitecloud | Jan 31 2023

Simone's Research Paper
Field Guide to Plants of Greenland
Changes in Arctic Vegetation Patterns

Science Communication through Art with Jill Pelto | Jan 25 2023

Bird Brother: An evening with Master Falconer Rodney Stotts | Jan 11 2023

Website: Rodney's Raptors

Alpine Habitats, Climate Change, and Rosy-Finches | Carl Brown | March 16 2022

Co-hosted by Green Mountain Audubon Society

New England's Roadside Ecology | Tom Wessels | March 2 2022

Racing the Clock | Bernd Heinrich | February 23 2022

Order the Book: https://www.bearpondbooks.com/book/9780062973283

Lady Fern Evolution | Bertrand Black | February 16 2022

The Winter Finch Forecast | Tyler Hoar | December 16 2021

Select Feeder Cams:
Canada - Algonquin Park
Canada - Manitouwadge
Japan - Karuizawa
Japan - Iizuna (click on Iizuna Restaurant)

Finch Research Network

How Animals Make and Use Sound | Laurel Symes | January 27 2021

(Supplemental video: fish make sounds)

Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist | Donald Kroodsma | January 14 2021

BirdsongForTheCurious.com

Sangers to Sochan: Plant Gathering in the S. Appalachians | Maria Dunlavey | December 9 2020

Slugs, Seed Dispersers & Stone Walls: Ecology of NE Herbaceous Flora | Nathan Kiel | December 2 2020

References and Citations | Visit Nathan's Website

Wild Apples: Making the Most of the Feral Apple Harvest | Matt Kaminsky | November 18 2020

Check out Matt's website: GnarlyPippins.com

Macrophotography: A Naturalist's Perspective | Joseph Saunders | November 11 2020

This recording is no longer available. Please check out Joseph's Website: Para Herpetologica
Support Joseph via Patreon
Check out @BlackAFinSTEM on Instagram and Twitter

Fishes of Vermont: Confessions of an Ichthyologist | Doug Facey | October 28 2020

Turning Stones: Exploring Aquatic Invertebrates | Declan McCabe | October 21

Montpelier PLACE Recordings

Upstream-Downstream Panel Discussion | February 8 2023

Montpelier PLACE

Upstream-Downstream Film Festival | January 19 2023

Due to copyrights, the film festival was not recorded, but you can still watch most of the films here!

Designing the Future: Parks and Parking*
2022 | Created by Noah Samuelsen | Part of Montpelier High
School’s Face the Rivers class

Clean Water Commitment: Floodplain Restoration
4 minutes | 2022 | Produced by: Lake Champlain Basin Program

Lugares para visitar en Vermont en el verano
5 minutes | 2022 | Created by: Onelucho Salazar in collaboration with
Vermont River Conservancy

Face the River
4 minutes | 2019 | Produced by: Vermont River Conservancy

Nebi: Abenaki Ways of Knowing Water
12 minutes | 2019 | Produced by: Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk
Abenaki Nation; Lake Champlain Sea Grant; University of Vermont.
Videography by Vince Franke, Peregrine Productions, LLC

Vermont Farming and Soil Health
5 minutes | 2022 | Created by Lena Donofrio | Part of Montpelier
High School’s Face the Rivers class

No Other Lake (Not available for viewing)
40 minutes | 2022 | By Jordan Rowell and Duane Peterson III | Made
Possible by: Lake Champlain Basin Program and Grand Isle County
Natural Resources Conservation District

* Face the Rivers at Montpelier High School is a collaboration of MHS, North Branch Nature Center, and Vermont River Conservancy. A class unlike any other, this semester prepares students to become leading stewards of Montpelier's waterways. Students explore aquatic life, investigate flooding, examine erosion, and follow the water through our natural, cultural, and social landscapes. As their final assignment, students were tasked to create video proposals addressing solutions to chosen watershed threats. Watch more of their videos here