Plant and Soil Science Associate Professor Terry Bradshaw was interviewed for a Brattleboro Reformer story about the catastrophic impacts of the May freeze event on Vermont fruit and berry growers. Continue reading “CALS in the News-May 2023”
Community Canopy Program Offers Free Trees as Climate Impact Strategy
During September 2022, the Vermont Urban & Community Forestry Program partnered with four municipalities to deliver the Community Canopy Program, where 525 trees were given to 260 residents of Barre, Burlington Lyndon, and Windsor. Continue reading “Community Canopy Program Offers Free Trees as Climate Impact Strategy”
Black Ash, the Corky Barked Wonder Tree
On a quest to monitor and inventory Vermont’s corky-barked wonder, the black ash tree (Fraxinus nigra), UVM Field Naturalist Program graduate student Charlotte Cadow has spent the summer hopping, plunging, and tromping through seeps, swamps, and floodplain forests. Continue reading “Black Ash, the Corky Barked Wonder Tree”
The Vermont Big Tree Program
When hiking in Vermont’s woods, have you ever been wowed by a larger than average tree? Or perhaps you have a mammoth specimen growing in your own backyard. If so, you may be looking at a champion tree, one worth adding to the state’s big tree database. Continue reading “The Vermont Big Tree Program”