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UpperValleyLandTrust
Registrace 25. 01. 2013
The Upper Valley Land Trust helps people conserve land in 45 New Hampshire and Vermont towns. We invite you to learn about our work, explore some of the special places we have conserved, and join the volunteers and supporters who make our work possible.
Field Notes Friday: Gathering materials for kestrel boxes
This week Jason Berard, Vice President of Stewardship, was out on a neighboring property to our Ely Mountain Conservation Area in Thetford, and removed a few sections of old pipes that the landowner allowed us to collect so we can repurpose them. Our plan is to work with our friends at the Vermont Institute of Natural Sciences and use these pipes to install Kestrel nesting boxes on a few of UVLT's conservation areas that have known sightings of kestrel pairs. VINS will also help us monitor the boxes and will band any nestlings from successful nests prior to fledging.
If you are interested in helping us install these nesting boxes or to possibly be involved with future monitoring, please email Cassie at cassie.bernyk@uvlt.org.
If you are interested in helping us install these nesting boxes or to possibly be involved with future monitoring, please email Cassie at cassie.bernyk@uvlt.org.
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Field Notes Friday: Brookmead food pantry garden update!
zhlédnutí 20Před dnem
This week Cassie Bernyk, UVLT Stewardship Programs Coordinator, was out working in our food pantry garden at Brookmead Conservation Area with our garden intern Ella. With the recent weather, a lot of the crops in the garden are thriving and on their way to being harvested! Currently at our Brookmead garden we are growing onions, carrots, cucumbers, zucchini, tomatoes, potatoes, beets, and beans...
Field Notes Friday: Update on EAB at Up on the Hill
zhlédnutí 58Před 21 dnem
This week Jason Berard, Vice President of Stewardship, visited our Up on the Hill Conservation Area and checked on the stand of black ash trees that we had treated back in 2022 to protect them against the emerald ash borer(Agrilus planipennis). Emerald ash borer (EAB) is an invasive wood boring beetle native to eastern Asia, and to help these healthy mature trees avoid an infestation, an ash bo...
Field Notes Friday: Fencing at Brookmead Garden
zhlédnutí 28Před měsícem
This week Cassie Bernyk, UVLT Stewardship Programs Coordinator, shares news about the completion of the fencing project at our Brookmead Food Pantry Garden! We are so excited to have the permanent fencing installed around the garden to keep out deer and other small animals that have been damaging some of our crops over the past couple of years. This 8 foot fence will help us increase the amount...
Field Notes Friday: Hubbard Island Campsite
zhlédnutí 43Před měsícem
This week Jason Berard, VP of Stewardship, paddled out to Hubbard Island in Claremont, NH to check on one of the UVLT managed campsites. UVLT has 8 campsites along the Connecticut River that are managed by volunteer campsite adopters. We are so grateful to our volunteers that help us take care of these sites every season so that the public can have a good spot to rest while traveling down the r...
Field Notes Friday: Pollinator Week 2024
zhlédnutí 29Před měsícem
This week Cora Day, UVLT Summer Land Steward Intern, visited our pollinator garden at Lyme Hill Conservation Area to see what was blooming and if we had any pollinating visitors. June 17th through the 23rd is Pollinator Week which is an annual celebration in support of pollinator health that was initiated and is managed by Pollinator Partnership. There are a ton of ways you can celebrate and ge...
Field Notes Friday: Woody debris in streams
zhlédnutí 46Před měsícem
This week Jason Berard, VP of Stewardship, visited our Up on the Hill Conservation Area and found a local brook that had a decent amount of woody debris in certain areas. Jason explains how having woody debris in brooks, streams, and rivers creates important habitat for aquatic species like fish who can depend on the debris for shelter, spawning, nurseries and foraging. Woody debris/ material a...
Field Notes Friday: Planting seedlings
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This week Cassie, along with volunteers and our two summer interns Ella and Cora, planted about 100 seedlings that were donated to UVLT's food pantry gardens this week by our friends at Edgewater Farm in Plainfield! We are so grateful for this amazing donation and can't wait to harvest all of the produce these seedlings will produce throughout the season. All of our produce at our Up On the Hil...
Field Notes Friday: American Wetlands Month- Fens
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This week Jason Berard, Vice President of Stewardship, visited Cobb Town Forest in Strafford, VT and My Walden in Sharon, VT in search of a fen to celebrate our last week of American Wetlands Month! Fens are ground water-fed peat forming wetlands covered by grasses, sedges, reeds, and wildflowers as Jason shows throughout the video. Fens, like bogs, tend to occur in glaciated areas of the north...
Field Notes Friday: American Wetland Month- Bogs
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This week Cassie Bernyk, UVLT Stewardship Programs Coordinator, visits Bear Pond Natural Area to talk about bogs for American Wetlands Month! What separates bogs from other types of wetlands is, they are peatlands that receive very little surface water flow and are among the most acidic peatlands. They are dominated by shrubs such as leatherleaf and bog laurel. When walking along the peat mat t...
Field Notes Friday: Wetlands Month, Swamps!
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This week Cassie Bernyk, UVLT Stewardship Programs Coordinator, visits Tunis District Conservation Area to talk about swamps for American Wetlands Month! What separates swamps from other types of wetlands is, they are dominated primarily by trees and shrubs. They are also characterized by very wet soils during the growing season and standing water during certain times of the year. Forested swam...
Field Notes Friday: Zebedee Wetland Marshes
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This week Jason Berard, Vice President of Stewardship, visits UVLT's Zebedee Wetland to highlight the importance of the freshwater marshes for American Wetlands Month! Marshes provide a number of critical ecosystem functions such as flood control, pollutant filtration, erosion control, and wildlife habitat. Marshes are also important for fish and amphibian breeding and for waterfowl. The import...
Field Notes Friday: Martin's Brook Headwaters
zhlédnutí 24Před 3 měsíci
This week Jason Berard, Vice President of Stewardship, visits Martin's Brook Headwaters which is one of UVLT's most recent land acquisitions. Working with the Lebanon Conservation Commission, we were able to purchase this 180 acre property that is scored in the State’s Wildlife Action Plan as “Highest Ranked Habitat in the State” and “Supporting Landscape.” This property includes 55 acres of we...
Field Notes Friday: 200th Episode!
zhlédnutí 28Před 3 měsíci
This Friday we are celebrating our 200th installment of Field Notes Friday! This project was created back in 2020, during the early months of the COVID pandemic, so we could keep you connected to the outdoors while staying inside. Over the years many UVLT staff members have shared nature nuggets, beautiful conserved land, and interesting things found in the woods; we are excited to keep it goin...
Field Notes Friday: Identifying Pine trees
zhlédnutí 402Před 3 měsíci
This Friday we're flashing back to March 2022 with Jason Berard, VP of Stewardship, when he visited Bear Pond Natural Area and identified three kinds of pines in our area - white, red, and scotch. Jason shows us how to tell the difference between these three pines by observing their needles and bark. As mentioned in the video, Scotch Pine is an invasive tree that isn't much talked about in the ...
Field Notes Friday: Vernal Pools at Brookmead Conservation Area
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Field Notes Friday: Vernal Pools at Brookmead Conservation Area
Field Notes Friday: Videos in nature from our viewers
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Field Notes Friday: Videos in nature from our viewers
Field Notes Friday: The Biggest Night of the Year!
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Field Notes Friday: The Biggest Night of the Year!
Field Notes Friday: Spring Visit to Sunrise Farm
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Field Notes Friday: Spring Visit to Sunrise Farm
Field Notes Friday: Dam Maintenance at Up on the Hill Conservation Area
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Field Notes Friday: Dam Maintenance at Up on the Hill Conservation Area
Field Notes Friday: Duck Box at Mountain View Farm
zhlédnutí 16Před 5 měsíci
Field Notes Friday: Duck Box at Mountain View Farm
Cream Street Conservation Area: Drone Footage
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Cream Street Conservation Area: Drone Footage
Field Notes Friday: Great Backyard Bird Count
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Field Notes Friday: Great Backyard Bird Count
Field Notes Friday: Wildlife Connectivity Study, Update #2
zhlédnutí 40Před 6 měsíci
Field Notes Friday: Wildlife Connectivity Study, Update #2
Field Notes Friday: Winter Walk in Cornish, NH
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Field Notes Friday: Winter Walk in Cornish, NH
Field Notes Friday: Winter at Lyme Hill Conservation Area
zhlédnutí 34Před 6 měsíci
Field Notes Friday: Winter at Lyme Hill Conservation Area
💞Wow💛💛💛🤍💛
In simpler English....these ladybugs 🐞 eat a whole lot of aphids!
Congrats on #200! Looking forward to 200 more!
Best thing going bring them back reseed.
Are you supporting NH Bill 1700-FN to ban geoengineering? Our birds and trees are dying. Look at impact of fallout from chemtrails.
They use like the arch bridge using chopstick
Wow! What a treat! Thank you.
I have a lot of rabbit tracks..including through my garden!
this is lovely - I hope it becomes an annual tradition on the Pinnacle.
I've been telling people about this. W. H. Weidlich described a technique where you wrap the tree with a soil compress, to heal any blight-infected cankers that appear. The roots of the trees remain alive under the soil, and he speculated that something in the soil was protective against the blight. They did some testing, and decided it was probably the naturally occurring trichoderma fungus in the soil, which fights against the blight fungus, but only on the parts of the tree that are completely covered in soil. He effectively healed the cankers using this method, although it cannot protect the trees against any new cankers that form. He described it in a paper called "A Preliminary Report on a Method of Biological Control of the Chestnut Blight Not Involving the Use of a Hypovirulent Strain of Endothia parasitica." I am testing this myself in Pennsylvania on the blighted trees that I find on the wooded mountains. All of my trees are young, sprouting again and again after dying back. I want to grow them long enough that they can flower and fruit, which is the goal, so that you can plant more seeds.
Very interesting! Can the trichoderma fungus be grown and sprayed onto the blight? Are there any other methods that have been done to attack the blight itself?
@@Alexander-rq9he I would say yes, probably, but I don't personally know where to buy it. If I recall, trichoderma fungus is widely known to be able to attack other harmful fungi, and it might be used for something else, like some kind of tomato plant fungus. I haven't tried actually getting trichoderma fungus as some kind of separate application. There are some other methods that they have tried, such as using a 'hypovirulent strain' of blight fungus, where you infect the tree with a particular strain of blight fungus that isn't very strong, but again, I haven't tried to do anything with that method simply because I don't have access to all the things that they can get for laboratories, universities, and whatnot. Since it's in the soil, I've been just trusting that it'll do some good to wrap soil around the tree, as I can see that the roots are still alive and are still sprouting, because the roots are in the soil surrounded by the protective trichoderma fungus.
@@eagledove9 Right I’ve heard of blight on roses too. Well what you’re doing is very interesting. I feel that a lot of effort is going into genetics and couldn’t find anything directly addressing the blight and saving some trees that have managed to grow some height. I then came across this video which might be of interest to you. czcams.com/video/b7ZaMuT7y6s/video.htmlsi=c9WecIUwOhkiWY-A
Amazing. I live in Connecticut and we are currently loosing all our beach trees from an Asian nematode. Of course it's from China. I spoke with a guy from the state forest service and he said there is really no way to treat the trees. Hypothetically you can soak the base of the trees with phosphate and that seems to keep the nematode at bay but it's expensive and labor intensive. I have noticed that the beach trees have started sending up shoots from the root system but they immediately die. My property has a ton of large beach trees on it and it's extremely sad to see this occuring. We also are loosing the battle against Asia bitter sweet that is girdling and killing all the trees along the roads and highways. No one seems to care or do anything about this.
Great work! I love this spot!
All the weight is on the two legs thougj it holds alot but its based off thise teo poles
Bigfoots home
I’d like to plant some American chestnut trees.
What do you think of the Dunstan Chestnuts?
How does he touch the spiky part?
Take the seeds and plant them in a open field crossing and gene splicing does not make a pure American Chestnut
How can I find out how what the level Lake Hitchcock got to in Claremont, New Hampshire? Thanks for the video.
If I was the landowner I’d cut the hemlocks down around it and let the area get flooded with light.
Yes that will work yrs ago Native Americans practiced controlled burns and huge trees were a lot farther apart I believe around 40 ft American forest was actually a savanna
A Red Tailed Hawk was caught and eaten, probably by a Great Horned Owl
They will be back!
no need to use screws or bolts for the main structure. The wooden beams can be attached to each other with simple sections and the weight will stabilize it
This so exciting!! I would have loved to see those huge old American Chestnut Trees, they looked humongous. I hope you find more❣️
Will u have any predators?
I think it super cool, you guys made a pond for the wood frogs. Looks like they love it to🥰
Beautiful! Thanks!
So helpful to learn more about the background of UVLT -- so many facts I didn't realize, thank you!
probably the most accurate and informative explanation about Eurosta on CZcams!
That’s an f ton of people building a bridge.
Thanks Jason. Its beautiful. I enjoy all the UVLT field notes. Just wish they were a bit longer.
I love it! Great to see you out there, Jason.
burn it with fire
Short insightful videos on random topics? Every Friday? I think I just found my new favourite thing to watch.
I love this series!! Thank you all for taking the time to share your knowledge.
I would love to work with you and help to implement Agroforestry in the public and state owned lands…
iOS and Android apps are geared toward data recording, submission. Website has superset of functionality - many features impractical, cumbersome for mobile app, e.g. graphs of sightings Jan.-Dec.
3:13 iNat intro
Please post a link to the plans!
da vinci bridge
Too many cooks
George made the cut!
Love taking these walks virtually - thank you, Jeanie and friends!
Awesome vids!! 💯 About to subscribe. Why aren’t you using smzeus”dot”com??! It’s the best way to grow your channel.
Went up to the pond last week, on the trail off I89. Still snow on ground. Only saw one Canada goose. Probably too early for Loons. Suellen Balestra
Fascinating valley with wonderful peoples!
Very well written and important for all of us to hear, with lovely photos! Where is the best way to access the property?
Okay so this is in fact two loons on a lake, but we wanted to see the "other" loon.
I dont understand. Fewer people are moving to NH than ever and we're mostly baby boomers now. Why discourage reasonable growth, there are plenty of wooded places to enjoy up here, I can see if it was being overpopulated.. do you get federal grants? what is your incentive ?