Hogback Wildlife Habitat Workdays Start Sat, 9-Noon

Fall is when we work on our habitat improvement project in the Hogback Mountain Conservation Area. The baby birds have all fledged, young mammals and reptiles are maturing, wildlife in general is restless and on the move, so our work with chainsaws and handsaws and clippers is less disruptive than it would be in the spring. This year will be our sixth year of work on the project to create young forest, also known as ESH or early successional habitat, on some of the former ski slopes.

Join us! We need people to haul brush, wield loppers, and run chain saws. Bring your own tool and gloves (or borrow from the HMCA stash) and meet in the field behind the white distillery building, on the south side of Route 9 just west of the gift shop, at 9:00 on Saturday morning, Sept 22. It's a 5 minute walk to this year's work site. We'll wrap up the work by noon. Note - Chain sawyers: you must wear full protective equipment, including chaps, hard hat, eye and ear protection if you want to operate your chain saw on a Hogback project. If you don't own safety equipment, we have loaner sets available. Questions? Contact hmca@hogbackvt.org.

If you can't make it on Saturday, we'll have three more workdays this fall: Sunday, Oct. 7 (Columbus Day weekend), Sunday, Oct. 27, and Saturday, Nov. 3.

Dec 24, 2024, 3 to 5 PM

Dec 26, 2024, 4 to 4:45 PM

Dec 27, 2024, 10:30 AM to 12 PM