Winter Park and Ride

By: waw

Mixing park and trees at Winter Park CO

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

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 ...

Freestyle skiing at Sugarbush

By: waw

Youngster does tricks and jumps

Kate Miller presents Forest health monitoring in eastern national parks: lessons learned and future concerns (2020 FEMC Conference)

By: vmc

Kate Miller, Quantitative Ecologist, National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Program (NPS I&M), presents the day 1 plenary at the 2020 FEMC Conference. Additional conference content can be accessed at https://www.uvm.edu/femc/cooperative/co...

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 ...