Catamount Community Forest, 553 Governor Chittenden RD, Williston
Saturday, October 14, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Join Ethan Tapper, the Chittenden County Forester, for Understanding Forest Management: Managing Forests for a Changing Climate -- a walk of a recently-completed forest management project at the Catamount Community Forest (home to the Catamount Outdoor Family Center) in Williston.

What does it mean to love a forest at this moment in time? In the midst of a climate crisis and a biodiversity crisis, as our forest reel from the legacies of the past, face an incredible array of threats and stressors in the present and move into an uncertain future, it is clear that doing nothing is not an option. Forests need our help, and we have the tools to help them – the only question is if we will choose to do so.

This September, about 25 acres of the 393-acre Catamount Community Forest were managed as part of a research project called Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change. The goals of the project were to learn more about how to manage forests in a changing climate while also creating a more diverse, vibrant, resilient forest with great wildlife habitat, making a relatively young forest more like an old growth forest and demonstrating responsible forest management in an open, transparent and inclusive way. We will walk the managed area and talk about forests, forest management, and forest ecology. Please bring an open mind and all those questions you've never had a chance to ask about forest management.

This walk will happen "rain (snow, mud) or shine." Participants should be ready to spend a couple hours outdoors in whatever weather we find ourselves in, with some light walking on a gravel trail.

To join the walk, meet at the Catamount Outdoor Family Center parking lot at 553 Governor Chittenden Road, Williston.

Register here. https://www.citymarket.coop/calendar/2023-10-14/understanding-forest-management-walk

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