Connections

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…

What happens when a landowner teams up with an experienced birder for an early morning walk? Notes from a June outing in Richford.

February means a lot of things—skiing, ice fishing, logging, tapping, tracking, and forever bringing in more firewood—but one thing we have our eye on this time of year is what’s happening in…

Wildlands, Woodlands, Farmlands & Communities gives a nod to CHC's contributions in their Winter publication

Charlie Hancock brings us up to speed on recent CHC projects, goals, and milestones.

With Winter thawing into Spring, Charlie Hancock gives us an ecological reflection on an itty-bitty organism found in vernal pools that you might not expect to find in Vermont forests.

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.…

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…

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!) –…

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…

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…

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

Charlie Hancock introduces the CHC summer newsletter.

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…

CHC is excited to share new developments in further land-purchases to conserve wide expanses of our regional forests

CHC's new Wildlife Tracking Immersion program wraps up its first year

Read on for information about our 11th annual gathering event and speaker.

Nancy Patch details a series of Woodlots "field trips" to regional Forest Industry businesses that CHC endorses.

CHC supporters and talented mother-daughter duo Annette and Jenny Goyne, debut their watercolor and photography artworks collectively in an August CHC sponsored exhibit at the MCA.

Recently published author Ethan Tapper comes to Montgomery Center for a meet-and-greet launch of his book

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…

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…

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…

CHC Board member Carissa Stein describes the complexities and necessities of decomposition in a healthy forest ecosystem

Exciting conservation effort along the Trout River. Montgomery forest protected for wildlife and the future.

Free Stream Wise assessments for Franklin County residents

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…