Saturday, January 8, 2022 – 12.30pm to 3:00pm
LGBTQA+ hikers will explore something a little different this month. We will meet at the Hinesburg Town Forest to tour an active timber harvest with Ethan Tapper, the Chittenden County Forester. We'll walk the timber harvest area, talk about forests, forest management, birds, and forest ecology.
Please register in advance for COVID contact-tracing purposes. Your information will be kept confidential and used only for COVID-19 tracing. To hold your spot, email Gwendolyn Causer at Audubon Vermont: gwendolyn.causer@audubon.org
Throughout our lives, many of us have been inundated with negative information about logging – close your eyes and you can probably picture big clear cuts, mudslides, and more scenes of environmental devastation. However, modern forest management is worlds apart from the logging that most people have been exposed to. Done well, forest management can be restorative and regenerative, creating more diverse, vibrant, resilient forests with better bird and wildlife habitat while producing a local, renewable resource. It can also be a force for good in our local and global communities: by helping produce local resources and economic benefits forest management can be a force for social, economic, and environmental justice and equity, both here in Vermont and across the world.
Pride Hikes are a collaboration between Audubon Vermont, the Pride Center of Vermont, and Outright Vermont. Pride Hikes have been happening every month since June of 2018 and go beyond being "welcoming to everyone" to creating a safe, affirming space for LGBTQ community members. All ages, allies, and families welcome!
Youth under 18 years should be accompanied by a parent/guardian. Dogs are welcome as long as they are leashed.
This will be an in-person event and will require uphill walking over uneven surfaces. We will meet at the Hinesburg Town Forest trailhead on Hayden Hill East Road, Hinesburg.
Co-hosted by Audubon Vermont, Pride Center of Vermont, Outright Vermont, and the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation.
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