Invasive plants threaten the health of many forests in Vermont. In many instances these plants are in our forests due to past agricultural land uses. The Crawford Town Forest in Royalton is an example of a forest impacted by past land use. This forest is one of many forests in our region dealing with these issues. At this town forest active measures have been made to rehabilitate the forest. These efforts include a harvest and invasive plant control.  

Join AJ Follensbee, Northern Windsor County Forester, Dana Hazen with Redstart Forestry, and the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS)for a workshop on Thursday, June 20th from5:30-7:30 pm, to talk about the Crawford Town Forest. Together they will be discussing solutions for rehabilitating a forest impacted by past land use. These solutions will include forest management options, invasive plant control methods and NRCS cost share opportunities.

The workshop will start at 5:30pm and end around 7:30pm. We will meet at a parking area off Mill Rd in Royalton about a half mile from Route110. Google Maps Link of Parking Area We will cover about a 1 mile of sometimes steep terrain. Please register for this event here.  

Arch is an attempt to build a freestanding arch, made two thirds of concrete and one third of ice.

Deceptive in its simplicity, Arch unfolds as a surprising emotional journey. An exquisite combination of breath, heart, and muscle entangle with the perpetual inevitability of collapse.

Touching audiences with themes of death, renewal, and hope, this work also points towards the extraordinary, yet flawed, systems humans create: language, economies, architectures, democracies – and, inevitably, to the impact of these systems on our ecological system, and on ourselves.

Known for building temporary communities in his work, Director Seth Honnor creates a world of human endeavour, hope, and loss. Arch gathers our minds and hearts, inviting us to bear witness to something we cannot command. Like in Seth’s other work, Arch gently asks questions of all of us, of our roles and our responsibilities.

Event free with park entry. Meets near the pavillion.