Vermont Projects

Forest Landowner Assistance in Vermont

Our Goals
Protecting and improving crucial forest habitat for Vermont’s migratory and resident birds.
What We’re Doing
Empowering Vermont’s landowners to safeguard the health and longevity of their forests. We provide science-based forest stewardship strategies and resources that support diverse, climate-resilient forest ecosystems on private lands.
Black Throated Green Warbler perched in a conifer tree and singing.

Vermont’s Forests at a Glance

#4
Most Forested State
76%
Of Forests Are Privately Owned
80
Breeding Bird Species

Working with landowners to steward the woods of Vermont

Tim Duclos with landowner

Vermont’s forests provide critical habitat that birds rely on for their breeding, migration, and other essential needs. Eastern forest breeding birds have experienced a -27% population loss since 1970, largely due to habitat loss and fragmentation. Forest landowners can help us halt -and reverse- bird population declines by becoming informed stewards that contribute to a growing network of healthy, diverse forest habitat.