We are very happy to tell you that in addition to being a Bird Friendly Maple Sugarbush, we also are part of the Richford Woodlots Program. The Richford Woodlots is one piece that makes up the Cold Hollow to Canada organization. So what does that mean?
The mission statement for Cold Hollow to Canada is:
Our vision is a healthy and intact forested landscape that supports a strong and sustainable local economy through stewardship, with permanent protection of core wildlife habitat and connectivity across the entire Northern Forest.
They’re goal is the permanent protection of 40% of the unfragmented Priority Forest Blocks by 2030.
What is Hi Vue Maples doing to help? We are working with our local Richford Woodlots group. These are some of the things we are doing;
- Wildlife habitat development (we have surveyed an area for a patch cut to benefit wildlife and birds -work to begin in 2017)
- Interior songbird habitat (we are Audubon Certified Maple Sugarbush)
- Best Management practices (BMP) for working lands (we just updated our current use land management plan)
- Water quality protection (we have had the initial engineer survey to improve several of our stream crossings – work to begin in 2018)
- Invasive species control (knock on wood – we don’t have any)
- Climate change resiliency (we’ll try our best!)
Learn more about these great programs at audubonvt.org and coldhollowtocanada.org. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram Twitter and sign up for our newsletter where I’ll keep you up to date on projects we have going and lots of pictures!
