Join us at the Canoe Brook Nature Preserve Public Information Meeting on Monday, November 13 at 7 PM at Evening Star Grange at the corner of Middle Rd. and East West Rd. in Dummerston. For more information:
info@GreenMountainConservancy.org, (802)257-00012 or www.GreenMountainConservancy.org.

The Green Mountain Conservancy has just established a new Preserve in Dummerston, Vermont. The Canoe Brook Nature Preserve, a 115-acre property located near the northeast corner of Dummerston, will remain undeveloped in perpetuity. This represents the second Preserve of the nonprofit Green Mountain Conservancy (GMC), of Dummerston, which also owns the 900-plus-acre Deer Run Nature Preserve in Dummerston, Newfane, and Brookline. "We are thrilled with the new Preserve," said GMC president Mary Ellen Copeland. "Particularly with the impacts of climate change, it is becoming more and more important to maintain protected natural areas that provide for wildlife and carbon sequestration and storage," she said.

The Canoe Brook Nature Preserve was donated to GMC in October, 2023 by heirs of the Knight Family. The property has been owned by the Knight family since they first settled there in the late-1700s. All of the buildings on the Canoe Brook Nature Preserve are long gone, but cellar holes and stone walls remain visible in places.

Roughly a half-mile of Canoe Brook crosses through the Preserve. Though there is erosion in places, this pristine brook rises on the shoulder of Putney Mountain about three miles northwest of the Preserve and flows into the Connecticut River about a mile to the southeast. The woodland at the Canoe Brook Preserve is dominated by white pine, hemlock, sugar maple, red oak, white oak, white ash, and black birch. Some of these woodlands offer an inviting, open understory, while other areas are seeing significant growth of saplings.

Event Info

Nov 29 to Dec 1, 2024

Dec 1, 2024, 8 to 9:30 AM

Dec 1, 2024, 4 to 5 PM