Lake Champlain Basin Riparian Restoration Contact Database

Below is a searchable database of people and organizations working on riparian forest restoration in Vermont (we are working to expand this to include other parts of the Lake Champlain Basin). Note that this database does include some practitioners and organizations who are in Vermont but outside of the Lake Champlain Basin. You can also download an Excel version of the data.

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American Forests

Type: Non-profit
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Funder, Policy development
Contact:
  • Eric Sprague (Vice President of Forest Restoration)

Audubon VT

Type: Non-profit
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Community outreach or education, Farmer or landowner engagement, Invasive plant control, Monitoring or tracking
Contact:
  • Mark LaBarr (Conservation Program Manager)

Black River Action Team

Type: Non-profit
Roles: Administrative, Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Farmer or landowner engagement, Monitoring or tracking, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Kelly Stettner (Director)

Connecticut River Conservancy

Type: Non-profit
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Community outreach or education, Farmer or landowner engagement, Invasive plant control, Monitoring or tracking, Policy development, Research, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Fritz Gerhardt (Conservation Scientist)
  • Gabriel Chevalier (Lab Manager and Special Projects Coordinator )
  • Kathy Urffer (River Steward)
  • Ron Rhodes (Director of Restoration Programs)

Connecticut River Joint Commissions

Type: Government agency
Roles: Administrative, Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Funder, Monitoring or tracking, Research, Stewardship or maintenance, Valuation
Contact:
  • Steve Lembke (Commissioner)

Essex County NRCD

Type: Government agency, Municipality
Roles: Buffer planting or installation, Materials provision
Contact:
  • Hannah Fay (Conservation Technician)

Essex County Soil & Water Conservation District

Type: Government agency
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Community outreach or education, Farmer or landowner engagement
Contact:
  • Alice Halloran (District Manager)

Fluvial Matters, LLC

Type: Private business
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Community outreach or education, Policy development, Research, Valuation
Contact:
  • Mike Kline (Fluvial Matters, LLC)

Franklin County NRCD

Type: Government agency
Roles: Administrative, Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Monitoring or tracking, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Lauren Weston (District Manager)

Friends of the Mad River

Type: Non-profit
Roles: Administrative, Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Community outreach or education, Farmer or landowner engagement, Monitoring or tracking, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Corrie Miller (Executive Director)
  • Ira Shadis (Stewardship Manager)

Friends of the Winooski

Type: Non-profit
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Michele Braun (Executive Director)
  • Shawn White (Project Manager)

Grand Isle County NRCD

Type: Government agency
Roles: Administrative, Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Community outreach or education, Farmer or landowner engagement, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Molly Varner (District Manager)

High Meadows Fund

Type: Non-profit
Roles: Funder
Contact:
  • Betsy Hands (Program Officer)

HRS/Riverscape Ecology

Type: Private business
Roles: Buffer planting or installation, Invasive plant control, Monitoring or tracking, Research, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Robert (Bob) Hyams (Owner)

Interlace Agroforestry

Type: Private business
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Research
Contact:
  • Meghan Giroux (Director/Owner)

Intervale Center

Roles: Buffer planting or installation, Materials provision, Monitoring or tracking
Contact:
  • Annalise Carrington (Conservation Specialist)

Intervale Conservation Nursery

Type: Non-profit
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Community outreach or education, Farmer or landowner engagement, Invasive plant control, Materials provision, Monitoring or tracking, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Christine Cramer (ICN Services Coordinator)
  • Kiana French (Propagation Coordinator)
  • Lynda Prim (Manager)

Lake Champlain Sea Grant

Type: Academic
Roles: Administrative, Farmer or landowner engagement, Funder
Contact:
  • Alison Adams (Watershed Forestry Coordinator)
  • Kris Stepenuck (Extension Assistant Professor)

Lamoille County Conservation District

Type: Government agency
Roles: Administrative, Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Monitoring or tracking, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Daniel Lee (Conservation Coordinator)
  • Peter Danforth (Director)

Lewis Creek Association

Type: Non-profit
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Community outreach or education, Farmer or landowner engagement, Invasive plant control, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Kate Kelly (Program Manager)

Long View Forest

Type: Private business
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Community outreach or education, Farmer or landowner engagement, Invasive plant control, Materials provision, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Tom Groves (Woodland Services Division Manager/Botanist)

Missisquoi River Basin Association

Type: Non-profit
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Community outreach or education, Farmer or landowner engagement, Monitoring or tracking, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Ari Lattanzi (Education & Outreach Coordinator)
  • Ellen Fox (Project Manager)
  • Lindsey Wight (Coordinator)

Montpelier Tree Board

Type: Municipality
Roles: Administrative, Buffer design or planning, Invasive plant control
Contact:
  • Sarah Hoffmeier (Board member)

MycoEvolve (DBA of an L3C)

Type: Private business
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Community outreach or education, Monitoring or tracking, Research
Contact:
  • Jess Rubin

Natural Resources Conservation Service Vermont

Type: Government agency
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Funder, Monitoring or tracking, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Carissa Stein (Soil Conservationist)
  • Hannah (Soil Conservationist)
  • Jimmy Young (Soil Conservationist)
  • Lauren Gibson (Soil Conservationist)
  • Phil Wilson (Soil Conservation Technician, CREP)
  • Toby Alexander (State Biologist/Forester)

NorthWoods Stewardship Center

Type: Non-profit
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Community outreach or education, Invasive plant control, Monitoring or tracking, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Jessica Colby (Riparian Projects and Outreach Coordinator)
  • Meghann Carter (Conservation Science Director)

Orianne Society

Type: Non-profit
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Monitoring or tracking, Research, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Kiley Briggs (Northeast Turtle Conservation Coordinator)

Passumpsic Valley Land Trust

Type: Non-profit
Roles: Administrative, Buffer planting or installation, Monitoring or tracking, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Lenny Gerardi (Board of Directors)

Poultney Mettowee NRCD

Type: Government agency
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Community outreach or education, Farmer or landowner engagement, Invasive plant control, Materials provision, Monitoring or tracking, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Hilary Solomon (District Manager)

Propagate

Type: Private business
Roles: Administrative, Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Funder, Materials provision, Monitoring or tracking, Research
Contact:
  • Mandy St. Hilaire (Procurement Manager)

Redstart Forestry

Type: Private business
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Monitoring or tracking, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Ben Machin (Conservationist)
  • Bill Musson (Forester)

Stewards of the Greensboro Watershed

Roles: Community outreach or education, Monitoring or tracking, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Jed Feffer

The Nature Conservancy Vermont

Type: Non-profit
Roles: Administrative, Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Community outreach or education, Farmer or landowner engagement, Funder, Invasive plant control, Monitoring or tracking, Policy development, Research, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Christian Marks (Floodplain Forest Ecologist)
  • Gus Goodwin (Conservation Planner)
  • Murray McHugh (Stewardship Manager)
  • Shayne Jaquith (River Scientist)

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Vermont contacts)

Type: Government agency
Roles: Administrative, Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Funder, Monitoring or tracking, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Chris Smith (Supv. Fish and Wildlife Biologist)
  • David Rojek (Biological Science Technician)
  • Katie Kain (Fish and Wildlife Biologist)
  • Ryan Crehan (Fish and Wildlife Biologist)

U.S. Forest Service - State and Private Forestry

Type: Government agency
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Community outreach or education, Farmer or landowner engagement, Funder, Invasive plant control, Monitoring or tracking, Research, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Karl Honkonen (Forest Watershed Specialist)

University of Vermont Extension

Type: Academic, Non-profit
Roles: Administrative, Buffer design or planning, Farmer or landowner engagement, Research, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Alison Adams (Watershed Forestry Coordinator)
  • Kris Stepenuck (Extension Assistant Professor)
  • Kristin Williams (Agronomy Outreach Professional)
  • Rebecca Diehl (Research Assistant Professor)

Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets

Type: Government agency
Roles: Administrative, Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Community outreach or education, Farmer or landowner engagement, Funder, Monitoring or tracking, Policy development, Valuation
Contact:
  • Ben Gabos (CREP Planner)

Vermont Association of Conservation Districts

Type: Non-profit, Association or working group
Roles: Administrative, Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Funder, Monitoring or tracking, Policy development, Valuation
Contact:
  • Clare Ireland (Finance Manager)
  • Emily Nummer (Agriculture Programs Manager)
  • Holden Sparacino (Water Quality Programs Manager)
  • Jeff Farber (Conservation Programs Manager)
  • Jill Arace (Executive Director)
  • Molly Varner (Communications Coordinator)

Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation

Type: Government agency
Roles: Administrative, Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Community outreach or education, Farmer or landowner engagement, Funder, Monitoring or tracking, Policy development, Stewardship or maintenance, Valuation
Contact:
  • Charlie Hohn (Wetlands Ecologist, Vermont Wetlands Program)
  • Emily Bird (Program Manager, Clean Water Initiative Program)
  • Gretchen Alexander (River Scientist, Watershed Management Division)
  • Helen Carr (Nonpoint Source Coordinator)
  • Laura Lapierre (Program Manager, Vermont Wetlands Program)
  • Sacha Pealer (River Scientist & Floodplain Manager (Northeast VT))
  • Sarah Coleman (Vermont Coordinator to Lake Champlain Basin Program)
  • Todd Menees (VT River Management Engineer)

Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department

Type: Government agency
Roles: Administrative, Buffer design or planning, Funder, Materials provision, Monitoring or tracking, Research, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • John Gobielle (Biologist)
  • Pete Emerson (Fisheries Biologist)
  • Will Eldridge (Aquatic Habitat Biologist)

Vermont Land Trust

Type: Non-profit
Roles: Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Britt Hastleton (Farm Project Director)
  • Jack Minich (Land Management Coordinator)
  • Sumana Serchan (Regional Stewardship Manager)

Vermont River Conservancy

Type: Non-profit
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Monitoring or tracking, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Erin De Vries (River Corridor Stewardship Manager)

Vermont Youth Conservation Corps

Type: Non-profit
Roles: Buffer planting or installation, Monitoring or tracking
Contact:
  • Jas Smith (Conservation Forestry Manager)

Watersheds United Vermont

Type: Non-profit
Roles: Administrative, Funder
Contact:
  • Christian Pelletier (Grant Administrator )
  • Lyn Munno (Director)

White River NRCD

Type: Government agency
Roles: Buffer planting or installation, Stewardship or maintenance, Monitoring or tracking
Contact:
  • Lisa Niccolai (Conservation Specialist)

White River Partnership

Type: Non-profit
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Stewardship or maintenance, Monitoring or tracking
Contact:
  • Christian Pelletier (Program Coordinator)
  • Greg & Mary Russ (Watershed Restoration Manager )

WindenWater LLC

Type: Private business
Roles: Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Materials provision, Stewardship or maintenance, Monitoring or tracking, Research, Valuation
Contact:
  • Patrick Hurley (Water resource scientist/restoration ecologist)

Windham County NRCD

Type: Government agency, Municipality
Roles: Administrative, Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Monitoring or tracking, Stewardship or maintenance
Contact:
  • Cory Ross (District Manager)

Winooski NRCD

Type: Government agency
Roles: Administrative, Buffer design or planning, Buffer planting or installation, Stewardship or maintenance, Monitoring or tracking
Contact:
  • Remy Crettol (District Manager)

Winooski Valley Park District

Type: Municipality, Non-profit
Roles: Buffer planting or installation, Stewardship or maintenance, Monitoring or tracking
Contact:
  • Lauren Chicote (Operations Manager)
  • Nick Warner (Executive Director)
  • Tim Larned (Parks Superintendent)

Yellowbud Farm

Type: Private business
Roles: Materials provision
Contact:
  • Jesse Marksohn (Farmer)