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Special Forest Products in Context: Gatherers and Gathering in the Eastern United States

USDA Forest Service Northeastern Research Station. General Technical Report NE-306. Written by M.R. Emery, C. Ginger, S. Newman, and M. Giammusso.

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Silviculture and Forest Aesthetics Within Stands

Report on existing literature related to forest aesthetics and silviculture by Robin Hoffman and James Palmer.

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Goethean Science as a Way to Read Landscape

Research article by Isis Brook published in Landscape Research, March 1998; Vol. 23, No. 1.

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Climate Change, Carbon Offsets and Certified Organic Forestry

A brief article written by J. Paull from the the proceedings of the 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress held in Italy in June 2008.

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Ecological Restoration as Public Spiritual Practice

Article discussing ecological restoration and spirituality written by Gretel Van Wieren published in Worldviews (2008).

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Community Wood Energy: A Case Study of Woodchip Fuel at Mt. Mansfield Union High School

Final report prepared by Field Naturalist Emily Schadler in May 2008. Case study regarding the use of woodchips as a fuel source at a local high school in Jericho, Vermont and the application of a community-based wood energy model.

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The Ecozoic Era

Written by Thomas Berry (1991).

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Whole Measures: Transforming Our Measures of Success

2007 Report from the Center of Whole Communities in Fayston, Vermont.

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Chapter from Conserving Communities

Selected Chapter from Conserving Communities.

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Bicentennial Hall: Local Wood from Well-Managed Forests

This report details the efforts to utilize wood products from local forests in Vermont in Middlebury College's Bicentennial Hall.

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Managed Forest Carbon Offset and Trading Program

Managed Forest Carbon Offset and Trading Program Enrollment Instructions. Delta P2E2 Center-January 2008.

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Low Impact Forestry: Forestry As If the Future Mattered

Principals, Goals, Guidelines, and Standards for Low-Impact Forestry.

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Seeps, Streams, and Saws: Interactions on the Roger's Tract

Seeps, Streams, and Saws: Stream Geomorphology, Forest Timber Harvesting, and their Interactions on the Roger's Tract, University of Vermont, Jericho Research Forest. Report prepared by Redstart Consulting and Jesse Mohr for the Roger's Tract Watershed Collaborative. Note: This is a large file (12MB).

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Climate Change, Carbon, and the Forests of the Northeast

Report published by the ForestGuild in December 2007. Written by Robert T. Penschel, Alexander M. Evans, and Marcia J. Summers.

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US Forest Carbon and Climate Change

US Forest Carbon and Climate Change: Controversies and Win-Win Policy Approaches. Report written by Ann Ingerson and published by The Wilderness Society in 2007.

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RGGI Model Rule

Note for Seminar Students: Read pages 124-132 specifically within Section 10.

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The Case of the Missing Carbon

Written by Tim Appenzeller. Photographs by Peter Essick. Published in National Geographic February 2004.

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Northern Forest Biomass Energy Action Plan

Northern Forest Biomass Energy Action Plan published by the Biomass Energy Resource Center in 2007.

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Wolcott Rebuild Proposal

The field station at UVM's Wolcott Forest was destroyed by fire in 2003. This document provides initial floor and framing plans for the new field station using green buidling design principles. It also includes approximate lumber volumes and costs and examines the capacity of the Jericho Research Forest to provide the lumber. Finally, the document includes specifications and costs for a solar energy system that would be able to power the cabin.

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Selected Essays from Aldo Leopold

These two essays were written by Aldo Leopold and are entitled "The Farmer as a Conservationist" and "Biotic Land Use." They were published in a compilation of Leopold's essays entitled "For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays and Other Writing." Edited by J. Baird Callicott and Eric T. Freyfogle and published by Island Press in 1999.

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Review and Analysis of the Use Value Appraisal Program

This review and anaylsis of the Use Value Appraisal Program was conducted to fufill the requirements of House Bill 537 Section 293a. Prepared for the Vermont Legislature by : Deb Brighton, David Brynn, Glenn Rogers, Martha Sullivan, and Brendan Weiner.

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The Solution: Wholistic Forest Use

The Solution: Wholistic Forest Use

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Hydrology and Water Quality in Mtn Basins

This article was published in the journal, Hyrdological Processes, in 2007 by Beverly Wemple et al. It details a study documenting the effects of existing ski area development on hydrology and water quality in the Northeast.

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The Hidden Treasure

From the National Association of Conservation Districts, an educational comic book about forests and woody biomass (6MB PDF)

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Forests on the Edge: Housing Development on America's Private Forests

Published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station (1.5MB PDF)

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The Earth Charter

The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental principles for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society for the 21st century (36KB PDF).

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Conquest of the Land Through Seven Thousand Years

W.C. Lowdermilk's personal report of a study he made in 1938 and 1939. Dr. Lowdermilk studied the record of agriculture in countries where the land had been under cultivation for hundreds, even thousands, of years. His immediate mission was to find out if the experience of these older civilizations could help in solving the serious soil erosion and land use problems in the United States, then struggling with repair of the Dust Bowl and the Sullied South.

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Acceptable Management Practices for Maintaining Water Quality on Logging Jobs in Vermont

Published in 1987 by the Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation (1.4MB PDF)

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A Field Guide to Jericho: Sharing knowledge within the Jericho community

This PDF is a guide to the on-line Jericho Field Guide found at http://jerichofieldguide.wikispaces.com

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Third Party Certification and the Forest Products Industry in Vermont

An article by students in NR 206, Fall 2005 (59KB PDF)

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Newsletter of the Green Forestry Education Initiative

Volume 1 Number 1, January 2006 (575KB PDF)

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