Vermont Natural Resources, Wildlife and Birding Programs
Vermont Outdoor Recreation Directory
"There's no better time than Vermont."
"There's no better time than Vermont."
Being a primarily rural state in the northeast, Vermont is home to a wide variety of wildlife, birding and nature based programs. Outdoor educators, guides, nature centers and organizations offer programs and camps ranging from birding to wildlife conservation and natural history. Explore the outdoors with classes on wildlife & environmental awareness, conservation, ecotours, educational nature hikes and wildlife tracking.
Birding Programs
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Conservation
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Learning About Wildlife
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Nature Tours and Wildlife Viewing
Clyde River Recreation
Northeast Kingdom Bird Watching Tours West Charleston, VT. Quality experience at a great price is the reason people choose our service in the NEK. Our 3 hour paddle on the Clyde River is most popular and great for the whole family at all skill levels. Green Mountain Fishing Guide Service Bird Watching in Southern Vermont Tinmouth, VT. Green Mountain Fishing Guide Service offers half-, full- and multi-day guides on many central Vermont lakes, including Lake St. Catherine, Lake Bomoseen, and Lake Hortonia. Bird watching trips are also available! Dates book quickly, so call 802.446.3375 today for rates and best availability! Kroka's Expeditions Vermont, New Hampshire, Ecuador Nature, Canoeing, Kayaking Marlow, NH, 03456 Kroka Expeditions is committed to awakening in young people a connection to nature and the spirit within, and a capacity for conscious living and compassionate service. We strive to achieve this through wilderness adventure, community living, farming, and the practice of traditional and indigenous skills. OGGI BE Yoga Therapy & Rewilding South Burlington, VT and beyond Rewilding is a pathway to rediscover your deep connection to nature and the more-than-human world. It rekindles your bond and reminds you, you belong to an expansive, beautiful, powerful community of beings. Rewilding reignites your primal vitality, your senses, and awareness. Some of the teachings, research, and practices that form this unique rewilding practice are forest bathing (shinrin yoku), nature meditation and observation, nature therapy, yoga, Ayurveda, animal and plant knowledge and connection, wilderness skills, group facilitation, and council practice. Your rewilding guide is also a master of environmental studies, a Vermont Master Naturalist, and a yoga therapist. Release stress, breathe fresh air, get moving, calm the mind, soothe the spirit, and regain your sense of curiosity and adventure. ROOTS School LLC Central & Northern Vermont Survival, Tracking and Awareness, and Earth Based Philosophies Corinth, VT. Reclaiming Our Origins Through Traditional Skills. For the majority of human existence, our understanding of the natural world, our skills and innate abilities, and our love for each other kept us alive and strong in the wilderness. Roots’ teachings reconnect us all to our birthright and ancestral lineage of survival, tracking and awareness, and earth based philosophies. Seiyu Institute for Health & Training, L3C Therapeutic Fly-Fishing with EMDR (TF-EMDR)℠ - Nature-Based Therapy The world's first integration of an evidence-based psychotherapy with Therapeutic Fly-fishing, developed in the spring of 2020 by Tony Parmenter and published in the January 2022 edition of Journal of Military & Veterans' Health (JMVH). This mode of therapy has been continuously offered and developed since it's beginning, and now exists as a holistic and adaptive format for offering nature-based therapy for complex and developmental trauma. The innovative approach developed by Seiyu IHT founder, Tony Parmenter, to easily bring integrative and evidence-based trauma therapy into nature. TF-EMDR is an outdoor, mindfulness-based, and attachment-focused adaptation of the EMDR Standard Protocol which was initially described in the Journal of Military & Veterans Health. Wild Gourmet Food We have over 80 years combined experience hunting, gathering and working with the woods and meadows in pursuit of the wild foods and medicines they have to offer. This has led to our ongoing activism both on a local, national and international stage. We also supply a limited number of high-end restaurants. Our Wild Store (Your Wild Pantry) which includes Wild CSA programs, a Wild Mushroom of the Month Club, etc. We are able to meet much of our own food and health needs with the fruits of our gathering. We also offer classes, wild edibles walks, talks & tastings. Wild Rivers Outfitters Northern Vermont Fall Foliage River Tours for non hunters and River Nature Tours. Richford VT. Spectacular scenery and wildlife. Bring your camcorders, binoculars and warm clothes. Spectacular scenery and wildlife. Bring your camcorders, binoculars and warm clothes. The Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge is a 6600 acre refuge is a resting and feeding area for many waterfowl species during fall migration. 25,000 ducks share this area with lots of Canada and snow geese. Moose Safaris and Wildlife Tours in Maine
North Country Rivers
Maine PO Box 633 Bingham ME 04920 Phone: 1-800-348-8871 Web: https://www.northcountryrivers.com/ North Country Rivers offers guided Moose and Wildlife Watching Safari Tours from our Bingham, Maine Base Resort Complex. Wildlife Tours are offered early morning and late afternoon from mid-May thourgh mid-October, We strongly recommend weekday Wildlife Tours (Monday through Thursday). This dramatically increases the probability of seeing Wildlife. |
General Information
Vermont abounds in wildlife. With a little preparation, some caution, and luck you can witness the state’s natural abundance.
Visit Our State Parks
Committed to protecting, improving, and enhancing the ecological, recreational, and community values of the Waterbury Reservoir.
St. Johnsbury, VT -
Northern New England's museum of Natural History with exhibits of animals and artifacts from around the world and home to Vermont's only public planetarium.
Birding
A Beginner's Guide to Bird Watching American Birding Association Audubon Society Birding Code of Ethics Birds of Vermont Museum Center for Eco-studies Institute of Natural Science and Raptor Center Lake Champlain Birding Trail Falconry North American Falconers Association The Peregrine Fund Green Mountain Falconry School Vermont Bat Center |
Info on Waterways and Public Land
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Lake Champlain Basin Program
Connecticut River Watershed Council Connecticut River Joint Commission Nature Programs in Vermont State Parks 
Vermont's Science and Nature Museum on the Burlington Waterfront. ECHO’s mission is to inspire and engage families in the joy of scientific discovery, wonder of nature, and care of Lake Champlain.
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Conservation & Education
" Harmony with nature is of more importance to us than any or all other attainments"
From "The Oracles of Reason" published in 1783 by Ethan Allen
Vermont Statesman and Rascal
From "The Oracles of Reason" published in 1783 by Ethan Allen
Vermont Statesman and Rascal
Bull Moose in the Northeast Kingdom
Lodging For Nature Lovers
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Northern Vermont
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Southern Vermont
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Jackson's Lodge and Log Cabins, Canaan, VT
Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, VT Seyon Ranch, Groton, VT Windekind Farm Cottages, Huntington, VT Serene Country Cabins, Hyde Park, VT Sterling Ridge Log Cabin Resort, Jeffersonville, VT Comfort Inn & Suites, St. Johnsbury VT Golden Eagle Resort, Stowe, VT Green Mountain Inn, Stowe, VT White Horse Inn, Waitsfield, VT Old Stagecoach Inn, Waterbury, VT The Willough Vale Inn, Westmore, VT |
Roaring Branch Cabins, Arlington, VT.
Arlington's West Mountain Inn, Arlington, VT Four Chimneys Inn, Bennington, VT. The Mountain Top Inn and Resort, Chittenden/Killington, VT Forest Echo Cabins, Mt. Holly, VT. Liberty Hill Farm, Rochester VT Vermont Twin Cabins and Lodge, South Royalton, VT Cabins in Maine for Wildlife Tours
North Country Rivers, Bingham, Maine
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