Bennington County Conservation District

The Bennington County Conservation District is Dedicated to protecting the natural resources and promoting rural livelihoods of Bennington County

The Bennington County Conservation District is Dedicated to Promoting rural livelihoods and protecting natural resources in Southwestern Vermont.

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Programs & Workshops

Mettawee Students on the River

Mettawee Students on the River

BCCD has offered a variety of workshops and presentations for a number of different audiences. They've included:

  • Pond Design and Maintenance
  • Promoting Native Biodiversity in Your Home Landscape
  • Healthy Horses, Healthy Landscapes
  • Batten Kill Headwaters Talks and Virtual Tours, with "Seeing is Believing: Hidden History on the Green Mountain National Forest," by Forest Archaeologist Dave Lacy; "Turn-of-Century Loggers and Logging in the Green Mountain National Forest" by author Bill Gove (Rails in the North Woods and other books and articles); "Batten Kill Headwaters Fishery," a presentation by Green Mountain National Forest Fisheries Biologist Steve Roy; and "The Return of the Loon," a presentation by Eric Hanson, Vermont Loon Recovery Project Coordinator.

Treating Japanese knotweedr

Japanese knotweed volunteer crew

Our focus presently is on sustainable forestry. With the Bennington County Sustainable Forest Consortium, we're hosting several workshops in 2008 and 2009 for forest landowners, forest professionals, and the general public. See a draft schedule here.

Have an idea for a workshop? Or interested in revisiting an earlier workshop topic? Let us know.