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Certified organic maple syrup is produced by many Vermont maple producers and generally commands a higher price in the marketplace. In order to legally market your syrup as "organic" an approved third-party certifier such as Vermont Organic Farmer...
Sugar makers rely on healthy, abundant maple trees to provide sap each spring. Taken together a group of maple trees managed for sap collection is called a sugarbush. Developing a healthy, productive sugarbush takes time and effort. Forests are hi...
Maple trees managed for sap production remain part of a forest ecosystem. Forest ecosystems are complex communities of plants, animals and microbes all interacting with their physical environment and climate. Forests are especially competitive env...
HDFS 161 Episode 10 Developing White Identity
Professor Shelton applies develecology to his own experience growing up in America, to illuminate the development and nature of white identity, and then to suggest approaches to understanding and reducing racism.
HDFS 161 Episode 11 Political Questions Chapter 1
Professor Shelton applies develecology to address questions about political disagreement.
HDFS 161 Episode 12 Political Questions 2
Professor Shelton applies develecology to address issues in questions about politics submitted by students.
HDFS 161 Episode 20 Develecological Health Proposal
Professor Shelton Describes the process of develecological analysis and elaborates on an example proposing ecosystem changes to increase the health of a community.
2020 FEMC Conference: Closing statements
Closing statements by Jennifer Pontius (USFS NRS, RSENR, FEMC) at the 2020 Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative Conference. More information can be accessed at https://www.uvm.edu/femc/cooperative/conference/2020/
HDFS 060 Episode 26 Family Diversity
Professor Shelton discusses the diversity among families, the many types of families and the diversity even within types. He argues that the type or form of a family is not as important as its functions and how its ecosystem facilitates or hinder...