Local Links for Biodiversity—Burlington, Vermont

Environmental and Conservation Organizations:

Forest Watch
10 Langdon Street, Suite 1
Montpelier, VT 05602
Phone: 802-223-3216
www.forestwatch.org
Forest Watch is a non-profit organization that uses advocacy, education, negotiation, and sometimes litigation to save and create wild forests and reform public land management.

Friends of the Mad River
P.O. Box 255
Waitsfield, VT 05673
Phone: 802-496-9127
www.friendsofthemadriver.com
Founded in 1990, Friends of the Mad River is dedicated to preserving and enhancing the ecological, scenic, and recreational values of the Mad River and its watershed. Friends work to achieve this goal through research, education, and cooperative partnerships with Mad River Valley residents, businesses, and governments.

Friends of Winooski River
153 State Street
Montpelier, VT 05602
Phone: 802-223-8080
www.winooskiriver.org
A citizen-based, non-profit watershed association based in central Vermont, the mission of Friends of Winooski River is to maintain and improve water quality, wildlife habitat, scenic value, and recreational amenity in the Winooski River watershed.

The Green Mountain Club
4711 Waterbury-Stowe Road
Waterbury Center, VT 05677
Phone: 802-244-7037
www.greenmountainclub.org
The Green Mountain Club and its 7500 plus members from across the country share a love for hiking and a commitment to preserving and protecting the Long Trail System for future generations. Through its land protection program in northern Vermont, the Club has protected more than 55 miles of the Long Trail System and 16,000 acres of backcountry land.

Hunger Mountain Coop
623 Stone Cutter Way
Montpelier, VT 05602
Phone: 802-223-8000
www.hungermountain.com
Located in Montpelier, Hunger Mountain Coop is a member-owned cooperation that not only sells and serves food, but is also a community resource that promotes nutritional awareness, local sustainability, and environmental responsibility.

Keeping Track
P.O. Box 444
Huntington, VT 05462
Phone: 802-434-7000
www.keepingtrack.org
The mission of this organization is to inspire community participation in the long-term stewardship of wildlife habitat. Keeping Track offers youth programs, special programs, and monitoring programs that include workshops.

Kingdom Trails
P.O. Box 204
East Burke, VT 05832
Phone: 802-626-0737
www.kingdomtrails.org
Kingdom Trails is a conservation organization working in partnership with private landowners, local businesses, government agencies, and other non-profit organizations to create and manage outdoor recreation opportunities and preserve and protect trails. Their mission is to provide recreation and education opportunities for local residents and visitors while working to conserve natural resources and create economic stimulation.

Lake Champlain Land Trust
One Main Street
Burlington, VT 05401
Phone: 802-862-4150
www.lclt.org
The Lake Champlain Land Trust is a private, non-profit organization that conserves Lake Champlain’s islands and shore line. It includes thousands of acres of public hiking trails, town beaches, and low impact natural areas.

Northern Forest Alliance
43 State Street
Montpelier, VT 05602
Phone: 802-223-5256
www.northernforestalliance.org
A coalition of conservation, recreation, and forest organizations, the Northern Forest Alliance is united in their commitment to protect the Northern Forest of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. Their three goals are to conserve wildlands; encourage well managed private forests; and build strong, diverse, locally-based economies.

Vermont Audubon
255 Sherman Hollow Rd.
Huntington, VT 05462
Phone: 802-434-3068
vt.audubon.org
Through the active engagement of volunteers at the grassroots level, Audubon Vermont plays an important role in securing key environmental protection in Vermont through environmental education, science and public policy initiatives. Year-round education programs reach thousands of Vermonters of all ages through school, camp, family, and adult programs and workshops. Complementing these programs, Audubon chapters throughout the state conduct educational programs and events for their local communities. Vermont Audubon also has an extremely effective grassroots advocacy program for the protection of critical habitat and numerous science programs that build on Audubon's heritage of bird conservation with an emphasis on citizen engagement.

Vermont Land Trust
8 Bailey Avenue
Montpelier, VT 05602
Phone: 802-223-5234
www.vlt.org
The Vermont Land Trust (VLT) is a state-wide member-supported, nonprofit land conservation organization. VLT works to accomplish its mission of conserving land for the future of Vermont by providing technical and legal assistance to individuals, communities, and local land trusts who are working to achieve local conservation goals.