Directory of Organizations

Use the directory below to locate organizations available to assist you in caring for Vermont's woods.  Don't forget to checkout the Directory of Resources for a listing of topic-specific programs.

To add or edit information in this directory, please email ourvtwoods@uvm.edu.

A listing in this directory does not constitute endorsement or recommendation by UVM Extension or any of our partners.

 

Topic
Audience
County
Category

Audubon Vermont

Phone: 802-434-3068

Audubon Vermont is a state program of the National Audubon Society. Through the Forest Bird Initiative, Audubon provides educational outreach and technical assistance to landowners and land managers on how to manage forests with birds in mind. Specific projects include "Foresters for the Birds" and "Bird-Friendly Maple".

Education
Place to Visit
Technical Assistance

Bennington County Conservation District

Phone: 802 442-2275

BCCD promotes rural livelihoods and protects natural resources in southwestern Vermont. 

Education
Technical Assistance

Cold Hollow to Canada (CHC)

Phone: 802-393-4147

CHC is a regional conservation partnership. Our vision is a healthy and intact forested landscape that supports a strong and sustainable local economy through stewardship, with permanent protection of core wildlife habitat and connectivity across the entire Northern Forest.

Education
Technical Assistance

ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center

Phone: 802-864-1848

ECHO's mission is to educate and delight people about the Ecology, Culture, History, and Opportunities for Stewardship of the Lake Champlain Basin.

Education
Place to Visit

Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium

Phone: 802-748-2372

The Mission of the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium is to inspire appreciation for our place in the natural world and to motivate our stewardship of a healthy planet.

Education
Place to Visit

Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

Phone: (802) 656-2975

The mission of the Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative is to serve the northeast temperate forest region through improved understanding of long-term trends, annual conditions, and interdisciplinary relationships of the physical, chemical, and biological components of forested ecosystems.

Education
Technical Assistance

Forest Guild- Northeastern Region

Phone: 207-432-3701

Establish forestry that is ecologically, economically, and socially responsible as the standard for professional forest management, from coast to coast.

Education

Friends of the Winooski River

Phone: 802-882-8276

The Friends of the Winooski River is dedicated to the protection and restoration of the Winooski River. Our goals are to reduce pollution, improve habitat, increase river stability and encourage passive and sustainable enjoyment of the river.

Education
Place to Visit
Technical Assistance

Green Works/Vermont Nursery & Landscape Association

Phone: 888-518-6484

Green Works, established in 1964, is a non-profit professional organization for the horticultural industry in Vermont. Green Works’ mission is to support and strengthen the horticulture industry of Vermont through programming and certification as well as create greater awareness of the benefits of landscaping and the professional services and products our members offer to the buying public.  

Education

Keeping Track

Phone: 802-899-2023

Keeping Track® is a non-profit organization founded in 1994 by Susan C. Morse, a nationally known naturalist, out of her concern that development in all its forms often unwittingly harms, isolates and even eliminates habitat critical to local biodiversity and broad-scale ecological health.

Education
Technical Assistance

Lamoille County Conservation District

Phone: 802-888-9218
Education
Technical Assistance

Linking Lands Alliance

Linking Lands Alliance is a grassroots, collaborative effort working in Vermont to address natural resource issues that transcend town borders.

Education
Technical Assistance

Logger Education to Advance Professionalism (LEAP)

Phone: 802-235-2908

We recognize that the logging profession is an essential link between Vermont woodlands and forest industry. Along with landowners and foresters, loggers are partners in managing our forests for wood, water, wildlife and recreation.

Education
Technical Assistance

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Park

Phone: (802) 457-3368 x222

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park is the only national park to tell the story of conservation history and the evolving nature of land stewardship in America. The park interprets the historic home of the Marsh, Billings, and Rockefeller families, their conservation work and stewardship of the forest landscape and the emergence of an American conservation ethic. The 550-acre woodlands continue to be managed for protection of natural resources, education, recreation, sustainable forestry, historic character, and scenic beauty.

Education
Place to Visit

Middlebury Area Land Trust

Phone: 802-388-1007

The mission of Middlebury Area Land Trust is to conserve the working landscape, important natural areas, special open spaces, areas with key visual or aesthetic attributes, to link green spaces, where possible, and to protect water quality.

Education
Financial Assistance
Technical Assistance

Montshire Museum of Science

Phone: 802-649-2200

Montshire Museum’s mission is to awaken and encourage a lifelong interest in science through exhibits and programming dedicated to hands-on discovery and education for people of all ages. Unique to this mission is Montshire’s 100-acre New England riverfront setting, which fosters deep and creative learning in both the physical and natural sciences.

Education
Place to Visit

Moosalamoo Association

The Moosalamoo Association is a nonprofit organization that brings together specialists in tourism and conservation to learn from each other and to develop a framework for cooperative activities for natural resource conservation, recreation experience enhancement, and educational and interpretive services for the visitors to the Moosalamoo National Recreation Area.

Education
Place to Visit
Technical Assistance

Northeast Silviculture Institute

The Institute workshops are designed to provide northeast U.S. foresters with the appropriate knowledge to make sound, science-based decisions for forest ecosystem management, harvests and regeneration. Institute training is designed so it can be used in the USDA Forest Service’s National Advanced Silviculture Program (NASP) to provide landscape-specific materials for northeast forests.

Education
Technical Assistance

Northeastern Loggers' Association

Phone: 315-369-3078

NELA is a regional trade group representing more than 2,000 members of the Northeast and Lake States’ logging, sawmilling, and forest products community. For over sixty years the association has published a highly respected monthly magazine that focuses exclusively on our region – The Northern Logger and Timber Processor. NELA also produces training programs, pamphlets and books, and two major expositions of forest products and tree care equipment.

Education
Technical Assistance

NorthWoods Stewardship Center

Phone: 802-723-6551

Connecting people and place through science, education and action.

Education
Place to Visit
Technical Assistance

Ottauquechee Natural Resources Conservation District (ONRCD)

Phone: 802-369-3166

The Ottauquechee Natural Resources Conservation District, founded in 1944, helps individuals, groups and communities in eighteen towns in Windsor County, and one in Rutland County, by providing education, information and technical assistance relating to conservation issues.

Education
Technical Assistance

Shelburne Farms

Phone: 802-985-8686

Shelburne Farms is a nonprofit organization educating for a sustainable future. That means learning that links knowledge, inquiry, and action to help students build a healthy future for their communities and the planet.  Our home campus is a 1,400-acre working farm, forest, and National Historic Landmark.

Education
Place to Visit

Sierra Club

Phone: 415-977-5500

Founded by legendary conservationist John Muir in 1892, the Sierra Club is now the nation's largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization -- with more than two million members and supporters. Our successes range from protecting millions of acres of wilderness to helping pass the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act. More recently, we've made history by leading the charge to move away from the dirty fossil fuels that cause climate disruption and toward a clean energy economy.

Education
Technical Assistance

Society of American Foresters, Green Mountain Division

Our mission as foresters is to be responsible stewards of the earth's forests while meeting society's vital needs.

Education

South Hero Land Trust

Phone: 802-372-3786

South Hero Land Trust has dedicated itself to working within the community to protect and nurture our most important assets: the land, and the people who live, play, love, and grow on it.

Education
Technical Assistance

Stowe Land Trust

Phone: 802-253-7221

Stowe Land Trust is dedicated to the conservation of scenic, recreational, and productive farm and forest lands for the benefit of the greater Stowe community.

Education
Technical Assistance

The Nature Conservancy

Phone: 802-229-4425 or 802-884-8165

Conserving the lands and waters on which all life depends

Education
Financial Assistance
Technical Assistance

Trout Unlimited (Mad Dog Chapter)

Trout Unlimited is a national organization with more than 150,000 members organized into about 400 chapters from Maine to Montana to Alaska. This dedicated grassroots army is matched by a respected staff of lawyers, policy experts and scientists, who work out of more than 30 offices nationwide. These conservation professionals ensure that TU is at the forefront of fisheries restoration work at the local, state and national levels.

Education
Technical Assistance

University of Vermont Extension

Phone: 802-476-2003

UVM Extension integrates higher education, research and outreach to help Vermonters put knowledge to work in their families and homes, farms and businesses, towns and the natural environment. Faculty and staff, located in offices around the state, help improve the quality of life of Vermonters through research-based educational programs and practical information.  Through partnerships with other non-profit organizations, and state and federal agencies, UVM Extension brings up-to-date research-based knowledge to support healthy forests and a healthy forest economy. Specific programs include Vermont Farm & Forest Viability Program, Urban and Community Forestry and Maple.

Education
Technical Assistance

Upper Valley Land Trust

Phone: 603-643-6626

The Upper Valley Land Trust helps people conserve land in 45 New Hampshire and Vermont towns.

Education
Technical Assistance

USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station

Phone: (610) 557-4017

The U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station’s science is complex, but the need for the research is simple. Land managers, city planners, and policy-makers need sound science on all aspects of the natural world and its complex connections with people to achieve decisions resulting in a healthy and sustainable future for present and future generations of Americans. Science at our station follows five themes: forest disturbance processes, urban natural resource stewardship, sustaining forests, providing clean air and water, and natural resources inventory, monitoring and assessment.

Education
Technical Assistance

Vermont and New Hampshire Christmas Tree Growers Association

Phone: 802-447-0660

Thousands of acres are planted in neat rows of Christmas trees, grown in ideal conditions and shaped to perfection by local farmers. These farms help preserve open space and foster important wildlife habitat.

Education
Technical Assistance

Vermont Center for Ecostudies

The Vermont Center for Ecostudies advances wildlife conservation with the combined force of scientific research and informed citizens. Our biologists study birds, insects, amphibians, and other wildlife from Canada to South America. Enhancing our work is a legion of volunteer citizen naturalists.

What VCE discovers about wildlife and conservation we share with scientists, policy makers, conservationists, and the general public. We publish research in peer-reviewed scientific literature. Our project reports help inform public policy. And our growing body of knowledge about biodiversity is a free public resource for anyone who seeks to discover and enjoy wildlife – from school children to birdwatchers.

Education
Technical Assistance

Vermont Coverts: Woodlands For Wildlife

Phone: 802-877-2777

The mission of Vermont Coverts is to enlist Vermont landowners in a long term commitment to maintain and enhance diverse wildlife habitat and healthy ecosystems.

Education
Technical Assistance

Vermont Department of Fish & Wildlife

Phone: 802-828-1000

The department's mission is "the conservation of fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the people of Vermont." Other challenges include providing quality fish and wildlife-based recreation and reaching Vermonters with the best possible information about these resources.

Education
Financial Assistance
Technical Assistance

Vermont Department of Forests, Parks & Recreation

Education
Financial Assistance
Place to Visit
Technical Assistance

Vermont Forest Products Association

Phone: 802-461-5688

The mission of the VFPA is to promote and defend the interests of our members.

Education
Technical Assistance

Vermont Institute of Natural Science

Phone: 802-359-5000

Motivating individuals and communities to care for the environment through education, research, and avian wildlife rehabilitation.

Education
Place to Visit

Vermont Maple Sugar Makers Association

Phone: 802-858-9444

VMSMA is made up of Vermont maple sugarmakers and maple packers who are dedicated to producing the highest quality maple syrup found anywhere in the world.

Education

Vermont Natural Resources Council

Phone: (802) 223-2328

VNRC is a statewide environmental organization that has been working for over 50 years to protect and restore Vermont's environment and communities. VNRC uses technical assistance to towns, research, education, and advocacy on state policy issues in order to promote Vermont's natural environments, productive working landscapes, intact wildlife habitat, clean water, clean energy, and vibrant downtowns and villages.

Education
Technical Assistance

Vermont Technical College

Phone: 802-728-1525

Vermont Technical College offers certificates and degrees that have relevance in today’s economy.  The rigorous, broad-based education we offer is balanced out by hands-on opportunities to apply your skills and gain practical knowledge either off campus or by working at our own unique facilities. Vermont Tech supports students, farmers, agricultural and Vermont working land specialists with educational opportunities related to animals, plants, forestry, soils, food systems, sustainability, mechanical systems and business management.

Education
Place to Visit

Vermont Trappers Association

Conserving wildlife and preserving our outdoor heritage for future generations of outdoorsmen and women.Ensuring the controlled harvest of wild fur bearing animals to maintain healthy populations within the carrying capacity of the environment.

Education
Technical Assistance

Vermont Urban & Community Forestry Program

To lead citizens, businesses, and governments in understanding the value of urban and community forests and to promote civic responsibility for and participation in the stewardship of these resources for this and future generations.

Education
Financial Assistance
Technical Assistance

Vermont Wild and Scenic Rivers

Phone: 802-393-0076

In December 2014, Vermont joined the prestigious network of the National Wild & Scenic Rivers System when a congressional action designated 46.1 miles of the Upper Missisquoi River and the Trout River as Wild & Scenic.

Education
Financial Assistance
Technical Assistance

Vermont Wood Works Council

Phone: 802-747-7900

VWMA's mission is to support the industry in Vermont and promote its long-term viability by expanding members presence in the marketplace, ensuring a sustainable supply of raw materials, increasing workforce skill and acting as responsible employers and community members.

Education
Technical Assistance

Vermont WoodNet

Phone: 802-862-5642

The primary mission and purpose of Vermont WoodNet is to address the needs of the Vermont woodworking community and all those in it, professional, amateur and academic, WoodNet members and non-WoodNet members, by maintaining a network of communications, creating and sponsoring educational programs, workshops and symposiums.

Education

Vermont Woodworking School

Phone: 802-849-2013

We are a woodworking and furniture-making school in a three-story, historic barn turned modern woodworking facility. We have 40 benches for the students studying in continuing education and college programs at VWS. We also offer many woodworking intensives and workshops. The master craftsmen and women who instruct here teach extensive furniture-making techniques and give exposure to the variety of paths and careers in the woodworking industry

Education

White River Partnership

Phone: 802-763-7733

Since 1996, the White River Partnership has been bringing people and communities together to improve the long-term health of Vermont’s White River watershed.

Education
Technical Assistance

Wildlife Society- Northeast

Phone: 301-897-9770

The Northeast Section of The Wildlife Society represents the concerns of wildlife professionals in 11 northeastern states (CT, DE, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT, WV). We welcome your involvement in the Section and we are here to serve you, the wildlife professionals residing in the northeast.

The MISSION of the Northeast Section of The Wildlife Society is to foster excellence in wildlife stewardship through science and education among wildlife professionals within the northeastern United States.

Education

Winooski Natural Resources Conservation District

Phone: 802-778-3178

The District completes valuable conservation projects within the areas of agricultural assistance, forestland enhancement, urban conservation and watershed stewardship.

Education
Financial Assistance
Technical Assistance