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

Association of Vermont Conservation Commissions

Phone: 802-828-5067

In Vermont, conservation commissions are advisory bodies that exist in many towns across the state. Broadly, they are established to help communities protect and enhance their natural resources.

Education
Financial Assistance

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

Bonnyvale Environmental Education Community (BEEC)

Phone: 802-257-5785

The Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center (BEEC) is a member-based, nonprofit organization founded in 1991 with the mission to develop a more ecologically informed citizenry through education and action in order to enhance and sustain the vitality of southern Vermont’s bioregion.

Education
Place to Visit

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

Duxbury Land Trust

The Duxbury Land Trust is a private, non-profit organization based in Duxbury, Vermont. Our mission is to preserve and protect the natural, historic and scenic resources that contribute to our town’s rural character. In particular, we are interested in conserving Duxbury’s wetlands and riparian corridors; upland and ridgeline forests, recreational areas and important wildlife habitat.

Education

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

Equinox Preservation Trust

Phone: 802-366-1400

To encourage the responsible use of the land and protection of our natural and cultural history by providing the opportunity to interact with the environment through education, research and environmentally sensitive recreation.

Education
Place to Visit
Technical Assistance

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

Field Naturalist Graduate Program UVM

Phone: 802 656-0461

We can work for you! The Field Naturalist program brings motivated students to the intersection of the natural environment and human nature. Our two-year graduate curriculum integrates science, fieldwork, critical thinking and public communications to produce leaders in environmental policy, land stewardship, research, conservation and education.

Technical Assistance

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

Friends of the Mad River

Phone: 802-496-9127

The Friends of the Mad River is a private, non-profit organization committed to protecting, improving and enhancing the ecological, recreational, and community values of the Mad River and its watershed.

Education
Technical Assistance

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 Mountain Club

Phone: 802-224-7037

The mission of the Green Mountain Club is to make the Vermont mountains play a larger part in the life of the people by protecting and maintaining the Long Trail System and fostering, through education, the stewardship of Vermont’s hiking trails and mountains.

Education
Place to Visit

Green Mountain National Forest

Phone: 802-747-6700
Place to Visit

Hogback Mountain Conservation Association

The Hogback Mountain Ski Area closed in 1984 and was subsequently purchased at auction by investors in 1993 with a eye toward development.  The property was again offered for sale in 2005 prompting community members to dream of ways to maintain public access to these lands.  This in turn led to the formation in 2006 of the Hogback Mountain Conservation Association (HMCA), a group of local citizens who volunteered their time in a four-year effort to raise the funds to buy Hogback Mountain and protect it from development with a permanent conservation easement.  HMCA's role continues  today as a volunteer organization whose members work under the purview of the Town’s Hogback Preservation Commission. Open to anyone with an interest in the outdoors, HMCA’s goals are to help sustain Hogback Mountain both as a natural wildlife habitat and a low-impact recreation area.  This magnificent mountain offers 100-mile views of mountain ranges in Vermont, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, miles of trails, historic foundations, and a fertile, natural background for educational and environmental studies.

Education
Place to Visit

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

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

Merck Forest and Farmland Center

Phone: 802-394-7836

Merck Forest and Farmland Center (MFFC) is a nonprofit educational organization with a mission to teach and to demonstrate the benefits of innovative, sustainable management of forest and farmland.

Education
Place to Visit
Technical Assistance

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

Missisquoi River Basin Association

Phone: 802-393-0076

The Missisquoi River Basin Association (MRBA) is an active, non-profit group of volunteers dedicated to the restoration of the Missisquoi River, its tributaries, and the Missisquoi Bay.

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

Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS)- EQIP Program

The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is a voluntary program that provides financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers to plan and implement conservation practices that improve soil, water, plant, animal, air and related natural resources on agricultural land and non-industrial private forestland.

Financial Assistance
Technical Assistance

North Branch Nature Center

Phone: 802-229-6206

We're a small preserve with a big heart at a gentle bend in the North Branch of the Winooski River. For more than a decade North Branch Nature Center has put people in touch with the sights, sounds and sensations of the wild within our capital.

Education
Place to Visit

Northeast Wilderness Trust

Phone: 802-224-1000

The mission of the Northeast Wilderness Trust is to conserve forever-wild landscapes for nature and people.

Financial Assistance
Technical Assistance

NorthWoods Stewardship Center

Phone: 802-723-6551

Connecting people and place through science, education and action.

Education
Place to Visit
Technical Assistance

One World Conservation Center

Phone: 802-447-7419

We are a Nature Center in Bennington, Vermont.  We bring nature education and experience to our community and its visitors.  Our work is grounded in our local ecology and linked to global biodiversity.

Programs and activities serve adults, families and children.  Go to our calendar for current and upcoming activities.  Over the course of a year, we will offer lectures on our local history and ecology, natural science explorations for children and families, science lessons in area classrooms and school field trips to our Greenberg Reserve and much more.  We contribute local data to the Vermont Atlas of Life project of the Vermont Center for Ecostudies.

Education
Place to Visit

Orange County Headwaters Project

Phone: 802-439-5252
Technical Assistance

Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center

Phone: 802-382-1012

Our mission is to provide educational experiences that prepare secondary and adult students with the knowledge and skills to enter the workforce in careers that are high skilled, high demand, and that pay a livable wage and to continue their education.

Education

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

Sweet Water Trust

Sweet Water Trust is a grant-making foundation whose mission is to support land conservation that safeguards wild lands and waters, native wild flora and fauna, and living soils.

Financial Assistance
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

Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission

Phone: 802-457-3188

TRORC is a regional planning commission that provides professional planning, land use, mapping, grant writing, and project management services to our thirty member towns in east central Vermont. We strive to to ensure that our towns remain healthy and vibrant places to live, work, and visit.

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 Association of Conservation Districts

Phone: 802-496-5162

Seventy eight percent of Vermont is covered in woods, and eighty percent of those forests are privately owned. Conservation districts and their partners know that decisions forest owners make today will affect the face of our wild landscapes, the quality of the habitats they represent, and the ecological services they provide for our communities for generations to come.

Financial Assistance
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 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 Land Trust

Phone: (802) 223-5234

Vermont Land Trust protects farms, forests, water ways, and recreation areas that give Vermont its rural character and economy. Since 1977, VLT has permanently conserved more than 1,900 parcels of land covering more than 550,000 acres, or about nine percent of the private, undeveloped land in the state. This conserved land includes more than 900 working farms and farmland parcels, hundreds of thousands of acres of productive forestland and wildlife habitat, and numerous community spaces. Protecting this land ensures it will be available for future generations to use and enjoy.

Education
Financial Assistance
Place to Visit
Technical Assistance

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 State-Wide Environmental Education Programs (SWEEP)

SWEEP is the Vermont State-Wide Environmental Education Programs, a nonprofit coalition of individuals and organizations whose mission is to promote a sustainable future by fostering exceptional environmental literacy work through our state and regional networks.

Education

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 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 Woodlands Association

Phone: 802-747-7900

The Vermont Woodlands Association strives to educate, train, and support private forest landowners in sound management practices concerning wildlife, water, wood, and recreation.

Education
Technical Assistance

White River Natural Resource Conservation District

Phone: 802-828-4493

The White River Natural Resources Conservation District is a locally led and operated organization that promotes and supports soil and water conservation.

Technical Assistance

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

Windham County Natural Resources Conservation District

The Windham County Natural Resources Conservation District (WCNRCD) helps landowners and users, agricultural producers, and communities throughout Windham County, Vermont conserve land and water by providing services such as: technical assistance, education and outreach, workshops and financial assistance.

Education
Financial Assistance
Technical Assistance

Windham Regional Woodland Association

Windham Regional Woodlands Association is a group of people who care deeply about the wooded lands of southeastern Vermont.

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