Native Plants, Clean Waters, Resilient Futures
The Intervale Center is home to the largest native tree nursery in Vermont, the Intervale Conservation Nursery, which works to restore land for water quality, climate resilience, and biodiversity. We have provided over 500,000 trees and shrubs for Vermont and have restored hundreds of wetland and riparian sites totaling over 2,300 acres of critical habitat.
This year, the Intervale Conservation Nursery (ICN) planted trees and shrubs at 18 conservation sites across Vermont. One of those projects took place at Beebe Farm in Swanton, where the team planted a section of wetland on the shores of the Missisquoi River to help reduce sediment runoff, create vital wildlife corridors, and protect our waterways.
This effort was made possible through a partnership with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the Franklin County Natural Resources Conservation District (FCNRCD).
“The FCNRCD has a longstanding partnership with the ICN to remediate degraded lands into healthy native forests and through this work, we have witnessed firsthand the impact that stewardship of planted sites in the first few years of growth has on forest establishment. By providing services like competing vegetation removal, invasive species management, and replacement plantings, restoration sites can take root and flourish into diverse, robust forests.” ”
With your support, we are growing our native tree and shrub production and land-based restoration work throughout Vermont and the Northeast, dispersing even more trees and shrubs to projects statewide, and increasing propagation of stems to meet rising demand for native trees and shrubs.