Connections

An introduction from the latest addition to the CHC team.

During his time as the AmeriCorps member for the Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative, Jake Van Deursen generously donated his time to analyze five years of data from Cold Hollow to Canada's Keeping Track Monitoring Program. The Keeping Track…

Barred owls and snapping turtles are not typical companions, but both were seen on October 30, 2021, on the Waterville Town Green. They were accompanied by a red-tailed hawk, a rabbit, and an opossum--along with Michael Clough, of the Southern…

Read more about the sweetest tree in the Cold Hollow region!

A big CHC welcome to Sarah Downes, Carissa Stein, and Renee Reiner!

Board Chair Charlie Hancock reflects on what an amazing year 2017 has been for CHC and extends a heartfelt thank you to all of our supporters this year.

Greetings friends and welcome to the Fall 2018 edition of CONNECTIONS, the quarterly newsletter from Cold Hollow to Canada. With this issue we shift our focus from the working forests which have been and will continue to be, at the core of our work,…

An update on the summer happenings at Cold Hollow to Canada.

Charlie Hancock introduces the CHC spring newsletter.

Getting out in the woods in the winter can bring an entire new appreciation for the plants and animals we live with. The adaptation strategies employed by our near kin show them as much hardier than ourseleves. While trees may lose their leaves, we…

Vermont's Climate Council is poised to adopt its finalized plan to meet our state's emission reduction targets. Here's a summary of strategies and actions for natural and working lands.

May was a busy month for Cold Hollow to Canada. We helped landowners plant 350 trees to benefit forest resilience goals. We met with leaders from Vermont Youth Conservation Corps and Audubon Vermont on a Belvidere sugarbush, to plan the logistics of…

In April, the Vermont Center for Ecostudies released a 25-year study on Vermont's Forest Birds. Find out who's fairing well and who's on the decline & what we can do to help.

How do Cold Hollow to Canada's goals match up with the recently released Wildlands & Woodlands Vision by Harvard University. Board member Nancy Patch makes the comparison for us.

We'll gather at the Montgomery Grange Hall for a catered dinner and enjoy speaker Tom Butler from the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Suggested donation is $15.

Meet new CHC board members Jenny Goyne and Greg Mikkelson.

At this time of year, I daydream of swimming in lakes and camping under the stars. My garden is planted, I'm harvesting spinach, and my kids are rejoicing over the opening of the local creemee stand. It’s not the time of year when I spend a lot of…

David Budbill, a Vermont poet, left us a legacy of poetry about living in rural Vermont when he died last year. Wendell Berry called the poet’s work “a delight and a comfort”.

There are really big things going on in the Cold Hollow to Canada region. If you have not yet heard, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has bought out their Vermont Land Trust (VLT) partner for the Calavale property that includes the Burnt Mountain…

Bridget Butler shares the results of the first season of Birder Broker.

As wonderful as it is to look for sign while enjoying the splendors of summertime - including lush greenery, wildflowers, singing birds, warmth, sunshine (well, at least some of the time!) – summertime tracking provides some challenges when it comes…

Here's a brief history of the Canada Lynx in Vermont by Kim Royar, Fish & Wildlife Biologist and Special Assistant to the Fish & Wildlife Commissioner.

Since our last newsletter, we are happy to announce the addition of Jessica Boone as the newest member to our Board. We could go on and on about Jessica, but we will let her introduce herself in her own words. Suffice to say, we are fortunate to have…

Read about the portal and database FEMC is developing for CHC's Keeping Track Monitoring Program.

Charlie Hancock introduces the CHC summer newsletter.

Paying more attention to wildlife during the pandemic? Spending more time in your garden? You may have something in common with the 3,200+ people across Vermont who took a University of Vermont survey about how the pandemic is shaping their…

Is it a biblical plague raining down, a crawling nightmare, a horror story worthy of Hitchcock’s The Birds? No, it’s an episodic outbreak of Lymantria dispar dispar (LDD). Let me explain. Lymantria dispar dispar is a moth, formerly known as “gypsy…

Sustaining (monthly) Sara Lourie, Titus & Jane Presler Stewards (Over $1000) Everett & Susan McGinley, Renee Reiner, Lew & Claudia Rose Canada Lynx ($500-$1000) Anonymous, Nancy Patch, Nick Richardson & Samantha Dunn Black Bear ($250-$500) Jes…

On Town Meeting day, Montgomery voted to establish a Municipal Conservation Reserve Fund. This is the second such fund established in the CHC region, with Enosburgh voters establishing a Conservation Reserve Fund fund in 2011. These town funds can be…

On behalf of the Cold Hollow to Canada board, I want to wish everyone a very happy, healthy New Year, and thank you for your continued support of our work toward a vision of a healthy and intact forested landscape that supports a strong and…

Habitat Biologist Andrea Shortsleeve discusses the problem of overbrowsing and what landowners can do about it.

Charlie Hancock, CHC Board Chair and member of the Working Lands Enterprise Board, explains the importance of the Working Lands Enterprise Initiative.

People ask why I hold onto my land. After all, I live in Vermont, and it’s a full 3,000 miles away, in California.   It’s partly nostalgia. I grew up on this land, and I long for my kids to climb the same sprawling buckeye limbs and spend nights…

Did you know that the Cold Hollow to Canada region sits within a United Nations Internationally designated Biosphere Reserve? Read more about the Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Reserve here.

What is emerald ash borer? What kind of damage does it do? Learn more here.