Winter Park and Ride

By: waw

Mixing park and trees at Winter Park CO

Photosynthesis

By: uvmext

The sugaring season has been over for a while. Maple trees ended their annual period of dormancy when their winter buds broke, allowing new leaves to emerge. These lush green leaves are now working to produce all the energy needed for the tree to ...

Off piste Winter Park

By: waw

some sort of kid skiing looking for cliffs

William at Winter Park

By: waw

Powder under the Zephyr lift

Late Season Defoliators

By: uvmext

As late summer progresses so-called late-season defoliators are beginning to become visible in Vermont woods. Two such insects are maple leaf cutter and maple trumpet skeletonizer. The first report of damage from maple leaf cutter was in 1911 when...

Tapping

By: uvmext

Winter is almost over and spring is almost here; it's time to make maple syrup. Each season sugar makers have to drill a new hole if they want to collect sap. The reason for this has to do with how trees respond to wounds. When a hole is drilled i...

Thrips

By: uvmext

Pear thrips is a species of insect that while native to Europe and Eurasia has been present in the United States for over 100 years. This insect is slender and brown as an adult and just over one mm long with delicately fringed wings. Thrips were ...

Moose Habitat Selection and Fitness Consequences During Two Critical Winter Tick (Dermacentor albipictus) Life Stages in Vermont, USA

By: vmc

This was presented by Joshua Blouin. This presentation was part of a series of contributed talks from the 2020 FEMC Annual Conference hosted virtually for the first time. For more content from the 2020 conference please go to https://www.uvm.edu/f...

Vermont Powder February 5 2023

By: waw

Solo skier visits Secret powder chute Smugglers' Notch. Vermont. Is this the new norm?