2025 Northeastern Old Growth Conference
Wildlands and Old-Growth Forests: A Vision for the Future
September 17-20, 2025
In-person and Virtual
Middlebury College Bread Loaf Campus
Ripton, Vermont
Call for submissions! Now open.
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Hosted by Middlebury College and University of Vermont Extension
Important Dates
- April 11, 2025 - Call for Submissions Opens (Talks, Workshops, Field Trips, and Posters)
- June 1, 2025 - Conference Registration Opens
- June 27, 2025 - Call for Submissions Ends
- July 18, 2025 - Talks, Workshops, and Field Trips, Chosen and Presenters notified
- August 15, 2025 - Posters Chosen and Presenters notified
- August 20, 2025 - Conference Schedule Finalized
- September 1, 2025 - Conference Registration Closes
- September 17-20, 2025 - Conference
The mission of the Northeastern Old Growth Conference is to foster a unified vision for the conservation of old-growth forests through knowledge-sharing, conversation, and in-the-woods experience.
Welcome to the Northeastern Old Growth Conference! We are looking forward to joining together with all who love old-growth forests and want to learn about their value, their ecology, and their conservation. We look forward to seeing you in person at Middlebury’s beautiful Bread Loaf Campus in Ripton, Vermont, or online, where talks will be livestreamed and recorded for viewing after the conference.
The Northeastern Old Growth Conference brings together researchers, conservationists, planners, policy makers, health professionals, and lovers of wild nature to share their knowledge and perspectives on old-growth ecosystems.
This year’s conference, Wildlands and Old-Growth Forests: A Vision for the Future, reflects the urgency of protecting wildlands and old-growth ecosystems for their critical contributions to biodiversity, climate resilience, and human well-being.
We have a fabulous slate of keynote speakers already lined up, and many more topics and ideas coming in to our planning team.
We’ll be sending out more information about the conference over the coming months. Be sure to sign up to receive conference updates, which will include information about calls for presentations, sponsorship, and donor opportunities, registration, and more!
Liz Thompson, Conference Coordinator, oldgrowth2025@gmail.com
Marc Lapin, Middlebury College, host
Ali Kosiba, University of Vermont Extension, host
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