February 11, 2023 – 1:00 to 3:00pm 

Vermont Business Magazine How can responsible forest management help create vibrant habitat for Vermont’s birds? Join Ethan Tapper, the Chittenden County Forester, and Audubon Vermont for a free, public walk of a forest management project at the Westford Town Lands. We’ll walk an area of the WTL which is currently being managed and talk about forests, forest management, birds, and forest ecology.

Audubon Vermont’s Foresters for the Birds program, a partner of Vermont’s Department of Forest, Parks and Recreation since the program’s establishment in 2008, is an innovative project that works to keep forests as forests and common birds common by advancing principles and on-the-ground projects that integrate the practices of timber and songbird habitat management across the state of Vermont.

To join the walk of the MSTF, meet at 1:00 PM at the Westford School on Brookside Road in Westford, ~ 1 mile south of the intersection with VT-128. Be dressed for the weather and ready to walk on slippery and uneven surfaces.

Learn more and register here: https://vt.audubon.org/events/managing-forests-birds-westford-town-lands

ETHAN'S WINTER 2023 EVENTS Tour of Forest Management of the Westford Town Lands at the Westford Winter Carnival – 2/18/23, 1:00 – 3:00 PM; How Forests Work (virtual) for the Burlington Garden Club – 2/28/23, 1:00 – 2:00 PM; Reimagining Forests at the Vermont Flower Show – 3/3/23, 12:00 – 1:00 PM; Managing Forests for Carbon and Climate Change w/ Maine Organic Farmers and Gardener’s Association (virtual) — 3/6/23, 7:00 - 8:30 PM Managing Forests for a Changed and Changing World at the Hale and Hearty Senior Club (Richmond) —3/8/23, 6:00 PM Managing Forests for a Changed and Changing World at New Jersey Forestry Association Annual Meeting— 3/18/23 Winter Tree Identification -- CVU Access -- 3/28/23, 5:30 - 7:30 PM