The Watershed Forestry Partnership facilitates research, communication, collaboration, and implementation of forest restoration and management practices that protect water resources in the Lake Champlain basin. We are a collaborative of practitioners, researchers, agency representatives, and others, who share best practices, new information, and coordinate efforts around funding opportunities and basin-wide restoration strategy. We are currently focused on riparian forest restoration<\/a> as a key strategy to protect and improve water quality, provide terrestrial and aquatic wildlife habitat, and reduce the impacts of flooding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Watershed Forestry Partnership is funded by Lake Champlain Sea Grant, UVM Extension, and Watersheds United Vermont. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Looking for the Watershed Forestry program run by the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation? We collaborate with them, but they are a different entity and program. To learn more about their work and\/or contact their Watershed Forester, click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Read our Summer 2025 Newsletter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Watershed Forestry Partnership’s 2025 Annual Meeting held on February 20, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Approximately 100 partners (99, to be exact!) attended the annual meeting held at the University of Vermont to learn about and discuss assisted migration, plant material sourcing, process-based restoration, targeting restoration along small streams, invasive species management, and monitoring and improving the outcome of our riparian restoration projects. The Native Tree Nursery Roundtable also convened during the meeting to talk about funding for restoration projects, the needs of local VT & NY nurseries, and how to advance the incipient “Tree Hub” for shared marketing, distribution, seed collection, and other collaboratory efforts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 2025 meeting agenda<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2025 annual meeting recording -Silver Maple Room sessions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2025 annual meeting – Chittenden Bank Room Nursery Roundtable<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n December 10, 2024 Nursery Roundtable Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Local native tree & shrub nurseries met for the 3rd time this year to learn about species demand for federal restoration programs like the Conservation Reserve Easement Program (CREP) and the Wetland Reserve Enhancement (WRE) program. We also heard from the Intervale Conservation Nursery about what species have been in demand for 2025 so far and the services the Intervale can offer to other nurseries, both non-profit and for-profit. Click to read the meeting notes <\/a>or watch the meeting recording<\/a>. To keep informed about and receive an invitation to these meetings, please join the Watershed Forestry Nursery Production Listserv “Growers’ Listserv” (see below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nursery Roundtable Meeting held August 23, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Several nurseries in the partnership met in August at the UVM Forestry Lab to discuss ways to increase local tree production and support local nurseries, including forming a “Tree Hub” to coordinate production, share equipment & seeds\/starts. Click here <\/a>for meeting notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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