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Green Pastures and Green Mountains

Walk through one of Vermont's most beautiful landscapes, under the shade of sugar maples and 400-year-old hemlocks, across covered bridges and alongside rambling stone walls. This is a landscape of loss, recovery, and conservation. This is a story of stewardship, of people taking care of places - sharing an enduring connection to land and a sense of hope for the future.


 
Michael Creasey
Michael Creasey to lead Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park and Conservation Study Institute

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Blogs @ Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park

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Read about Platinum LEED for Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Forest Center


Twin State Mercury Project

Freshmen Present Research at Dartmouth

Join science students from Stevens High School and Woodstock Union High School as they share the results of research on mercury in the watersheds of New Hampshire and Vermont:

When: Wednesday, February 15, 2012
           (Snow date March 8, 2012)

Where: Dartmouth College
            Top of the Hop and Alumni Hall

Time: 7:00pm

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Last year's project info



2011 Artist in Residence

Writer Wendy Call will be the 2011 Artist in Residence at the Marsh Billings Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock, Vermont. This program, begun in 2007 by the K2 Family Foundation, invites one artist each year to work in the park for two months.

Call will be in residence at Vermont's only national park from July 26 to September 24, 2011, working in a historic bungalow on park grounds, exploring the relationships among land, community, and identity. She will offer writing workshops for park visitors, staff, and local educators. Call's writing revolves around issues of community organization and environmental stewardship; in her workshops, participants will explore their relationship to the land that surrounds them and what it means to be a Vermonter. 

Additional information & schedule of workshops

Artist in Residence Program


 
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Online Art Exhibit

Explore America's story of conservation and land stewardship through an online exhibit of the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller art collection. Included are paintings by America's most famous landscape artists including Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole and Edward Moran.

Artist in Residence Program


 

My Green Park: Green Inside/Out

My Green Park: Green Inside/Out
This past March, the Sustainable Operations and Climate Change (SOCC) Branch of the Park Facility Management (PFMD) division sponsored the inaugural My Green Parks Video Contest.  The contest encourages parks and regions to develop a short (2-3 minute) video sharing their “green” accomplishments.  In response, twenty-one parks and one regional office submitted twenty-three unique videos.  Videos were evaluated based on four subject areas including 1) Innovation of projects, 2) Artistic quality of videos, 3.) Community/partner engagement and 4) Interpretation of projects to visitors.

Contest winners will be featured at workshops, park websites, conferences and the soon to be released My Green Parks intranet site.  These videos will also be used to educate the public and other NPS staff about what they can do to contribute to our conservation mission by integrating sustainability into their daily lives or park operations.

“My Green Park: Green Inside/Out” by Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park won awards in the following categories:

Community/Partner Engagement – 1st Place
Interpretation of Projects to Visitors – 2nd Place
Quality and Innovation of Project - 3rd Place

Credit / Author: NPS Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP & Partners
Date Created: 2011-08-19

 
 

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Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
54 Elm Street
Woodstock, VT 05091

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Headquarters
(802) 457-3368

Visitor Information
(802) 457-3368 ext. 22

Fax

(802) 457-3405

Climate

The park lies within a temperate zone and experiences four full seasons. Arrive prepared for a wide variety of weather conditions. Summer temperatures are usually in the 70s or low 80s during the day and upper 60s in the evening. Spring and fall days can range from the 50s to lower 70s, with evenings in the upper 40s to low 60s. Winter temperatures average in the 20s. Winter snowfall is moderate to heavy - making for outstanding cross-country skiing.
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