Happy 10th Birthday Vermont Master Naturalist!
For ten years, VMN has brought communities together to learn to read their local landscapes layer by layer, from the bedrock underfoot to the birds overhead.
As the program reaches this decade milestone, we reflect on the journey that brought us to this point and all those who have been a part of advancing conservation, building community, and connecting to the wild heart of place.
Become a Vermont Master Naturalist
The Vermont Master Naturalist (VMN) program invites you to connect with the natural world of your region through professional training and hands-on volunteer projects.
You’ll join a close-knit team of local learners exploring Vermont’s unique local natural history across the earth, life and social sciences— gaining the skills to read the landscape.
More than a course — it’s a new way of seeing and caring for the world in a community of other naturalists.
“I am not a naturalist because of what I know. I am a naturalist because it’s what I do.”
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Wondering what a day in the life of a program looks like?
Read this excellent coverage by Rachel Mullis where you’ll get a beautifully illustrative account of how this program came to be, and what you can expect.
Half-way through: Vermont Master Naturalist’s inaugural offering in The Valley
We invited the members from all of our towns to the VMN Conservation Field Day at North Branch Nature Center. We hiked; we talked; we ate great food. Then Sean Beckett took this lovely photo! 
VMN has returned to the Mad River Valley with support from the Stark Mountain Foundation. The first VMN MRV cohort pictured in 2021 after a beautiful hike seeing old trees along the Catamount Trail in Lincoln Gap. Photo by Liz Thompson 
Thank you to our generous sponsors!
Thanks Also TO:
VMN Logo- Libby Davidson
Banner photo- Monica Erhart
VMN Program Map- Gustave Sexauer
Website design- Braden DeForge, Sean Beckett, & Claire Dumont
Vermont Master Naturalist Program 