Forester Ross Morgan said he nominated Derby landowner Trevor Evans for the "Outstanding Tree Farmer of the Year" award for many reasons. However, to sum it up, he said, "Trevor lives and breathes good forestry practice. He is a spokesperson for low-impact logging and integrating wildlife habitat improvement..His outreach and beliefs are an answer to Aldo Leopold's call for an American land ethic in his famous book, A Sand Country Almanac." Tree Farm is a national program of the American Tree Farm System.

University of Vermont College of Medicine Dean Frederick C. Morin, M.D., has announced that following a national search, William B. Jeffries, Ph.D., has accepted the position of Senior Associate Dean for Education. Dr. Jeffries will assume this role on August 1, 2009, and will relocate to Vermont from Omaha, Nebraska, where he is the Associate Dean for Medical Education and Director of Academic Computing at Creighton University School of Medicine.

The Board of Directors of WRC Holdings, LLC, the entity that manages The Woodstock Inn & Resort for the Woodstock Foundation, announces the appointment of Werner H. Graef to be President and General Manager of the Resort, effective May 1st.