Educational Events

The Vermont Organics Recycling Summit (VORS) is hosted by the Composting Association of Vermont with support from the Agency of Natural Resources Department of Environmental Conservation.

This year’s Summit will highlight business success stories, the use of compost products for storm water management, research, and outreach models. Workshops are designed to help businesses, institutions, communities and residents meet the State’s organics diversion, food rescue, and food scrap recycling goals. 

Three upcoming workshops for landowners are scheduled for February and March. The Cut with Confidence workshops will help you as a landowner better understand the ins and outs of a successful timber harvest in your woods. Register for one, two, or all three workshops. Each workshop will visit a different harvest on the Evans Tree Farm in Derby, Vermont. Participants will gain an increased understanding of how to set up a successful harvest and the responsibilities of those involved. The discussion will cover contracts, silviculture, and everything in between. 

VT F&W Biologist Doug Blodgett shares research findings and life history description of rattlesnakes surviving at the most northern reaches of the species' continental range in Vermont.
 

Through colorful photos and captivating stories, the audience will come away with a new understanding of how climate change is affecting wildlife. Tom Rogers, with the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, will talk about what people can do to help conserve biodiversity in Vermont in the face of these new threats.

The talk is free and open to the public. Donations of $15 are requested to support an environmental education program in the local school are appreciated. ​

An introductory fly tying course focusing on material, hook, and thread terminology. Techniques such as thread control, proportion, tying on materials, dubbing, and wings and tails will be covered while tying a variety of flies. 

The four-week course will be held on Monday evenings from 7pm-9pm on February 26, March 5, 12, and 19. 
Participant are expected to attend all four evenings. 

Lee Simard, Fisheries Biologist, will give a talk on the history of the Batten Kill and the Department of Fish and Wildlife’s past, current, and future management practices. 

This presentation by wildlife biologist Kim Royar includes a walk-through Vermont’s history of land use from the time of the Native Americans to present and discusses the relationship between the human changes to the landscape and the wildlife that live in Vermont as a result, particularly beaver, otter, coyote, bobcat, and wolf, etc.  

Location: One World Conservation Center, 413 US Route 7S Bennington, VT

Citizens interested in healthy waters and landscape-based solutions to water quality are encouraged to attend the 13th Annual Vermont Lake Seminar on Friday June 2, 2017. This year’s event will be held at the Canadian Club in Barre, and will feature workshops and presenters speaking to the theme ‘Pathways to Healthy Lakes.’

Attend this workshop to learn how today's actions can keep our waters safe and clean.

Attend this workshop to learn how today's actions can keep our water sources safe and clean.