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  • Education
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        • Caring for Our Forests A Legacy of Stewardship
        • A Forest Year: Soils Unit
        • Agricultural History VT
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        • Creating Sculptures with Natural Materials Lesson Plan
        • Dickinson Frost and You Lesson Plan
        • Interpreting a Place
        • Invasive Invaders Lesson Plan
        • Migratory Birds Lesson Plan
        • Migratory Birds Education Plan
        • Mount Tom From Farm to Forest
        • Our Unique Place Lesson Plan
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