THE GOVERNMENT NEWS DESKPERMANENT NPS STORY ARCHIVE
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Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller and Saint-Gaudens National Historical Parks are proud to celebrate the achievements of three outstanding team members whose work exemplifies the mission and values of the National Park Service.
Official NPS sourceA new National Park Service report shows that 108,400 visitors to Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller and Saint-Gaudens National Historical Parks in 2024 spent $7.3 million in communities near the parks. That spending had a cumulative benefit to the Vermont and New Hampshire economies of $9.6 million.
Official NPS sourceAnnual forest management operations are scheduled to begin at Marsh-Billings Rockefeller National Historical Park on November 4 and continue for approximately three weeks. During this time, there will be temporary trail closures in and around the work areas between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Posted signs at trailheads will alert hikers to the closures and alternative routes will be marked.
Official NPS sourceMarsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park and the Woodstock Police Department have received multiple reports in the last 48 hours of an aggressive fox approaching visitors on or near the Faulkner Trail on Mount Tom. Rabies is suspected as a possible cause.
Official NPS sourceMost forests in eastern United States national parks are at risk due to browsing by overabundant white-tailed deer and crowding by invasive plants, according to a National Park Service (NPS) study published in the journal Ecological Applications.
Official NPS sourceMarsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park invites the public to celebrate working woodlands and wood craft during its annual Forest Festival event on Saturday, September 24 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Entry to the park and event is free. Parking for the event is at the Billings Farm & Museum overflow lot.
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Annual forest management operations are scheduled to begin at Marsh-Billings Rockefeller National Historical Park on September 21 and continue through mid-October. During this time, there will be temporary trail closures in and around the work areas between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Posted signs at trailheads will alert visitors to the closures and alternative routes will be marked. The Prosper Road parking lot will remain open.
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Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park is pleased to announce its 2022 Artist-in-Residence (AIR), Amy Hook-Therrien, a visual artist with a specialization in watercolor. Her residency at the national park will run from June until October and feature numerous events, workshops and open studio days.
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Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park Horticulturalist Kim Murray has retired after over two decades of service. For over 43 years, Murray has curated and cared for the landscape of the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller estate and will leave behind a legacy of beautifully maintained grounds and gardens.
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Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, in partnership with ArtisTree Community Arts Center, welcomes the return of Artist-In-Residence (AIR) Margaret Dwyer. Dwyer is a multi-media artist with a specialization in watercolor. Her first residency at the park was in 2019 and the park was fortunate to have her return last year and this year to carry on the AIR program through the pandemic.
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Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park was selected to represent Vermont for the ATB Quarter which was officially released to the public in 2020. Located in Woodstock, Vermont, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP is the only national park dedicated to telling the story of conservation history and the evolving nature of land stewardship in America
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Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, the only national park practicing active forestry, invites the public to celebrate working lands and wood craft during the annual Forest Festival event, Saturday and Sunday, September 21-22, 10am-4pm.
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Award-winning art historian, critic, author and podcaster Tyler Green will be speaking about groundbreaking 19th century photographer Carleton Watkins on Saturday, September 14, 7pm at the Billings Farm & Museum Visitor Center. A signing of Green’s book, Carleton Watkins: Making the West American, will precede the talk, beginning at 6pm. This lecture event is a collaboration between Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park and Billings Farm & Museum.
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During the summers of 2019 and 2020, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park is hosting an outdoor exhibition of the sculptural portraits of three Hudson River School artists, created by internationally renowned sculptor Greg Wyatt.
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Celebrate the National Park Service birthday and the lingering days of summer at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park’s Summer Celebration this Saturday, August 24 from 10am until 4pm at the park in Woodstock, VT.
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Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park is pleased to announce its 2019 Artist-in-Residence (AIR), Margaret Dwyer, a multi-media artist with a specialization in watercolor. Her residency at the national park will run from June until October and feature numerous events, workshops and open studio days. The national park’s AIR program operates in partnership with ArtisTree Community Arts Center, where several of Dwyer’s workshops will take place.
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What do farm fresh food, hiking, arts and crafts, fiddle music, ice cream, and wood-fired pizza all have in common? They are all part of the 11th annual Trek to Taste to be held on National Trails Day, Saturday, June 1, 2019, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park and town parks in Woodstock, Vermont.
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7th Annual Peak to Peak event celebrates Woodstock's trails and autumn with family friendly hiking, games
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6th Annual Peak to Peak Hiking Event celebrates Woodstock, VT Hiking Trails. Oct 14 10am-2:30pm
Official NPS source“New Birth of Freedom”, published by the National Park Service, won the first place “Blue Pencil 2014” award for a soft or hardcover book.
Official NPS sourceStaff at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Park in Woodstock are working with the park’s 555 acres of forest to bring back or increase numbers of nesting birds... Saturday June 28, park offers a free guided walk to demonstrate some of the habitat work that has helped to improve nesting sites...
Official NPS sourceMarsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park and the Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program are among 37 national parks/programs selected to receive a 2014 Active Trails grant from the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America’s national parks.
Official NPS sourceThe 1st annual Peak to Peak hike will be held on Saturday, October 13, 2012. Starting at the Green you and your family can hike with guide or own your own to the top of Mount Tom, Mount Peg or both. Guided walks leave at 10:30am and 12pm and include historical interpretation and activities for kids. At the Green engage with local organizations about hiking, healthy living, history and nature. Registration begins at 10 am and picnic lunches will be available for sale from 11am to 1 pm. The first 100 to hike to both peaks will win a free lunch bag. This fall hike is a chance for those of all ages to appreciate one of Woodstock's greatest resources‐ its trails. Trails that can be a means to a healthy lifestyle, and a window to unique history and astonishing beauty.
Official NPS sourceOn Sunday, July 15th from 3:00-6:00PM visiting Artist in Residence Andrea Polli will unveil the culminating exhibit of her multimedia exploration called “What do you Hear” at the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock, Vermont.
Official NPS source2011 Forestry Work to Begin on Mount Tom
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Official NPS sourceMarsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park is premiering a new visitor program this summer - Fallout: The Atomic Age and the Emergence of the Modern Environmental Movement examining the relationship between the “Atomic Age” and the awakening of a new environmental consciousness in the 1960’s.
Official NPS sourceMarsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park and the Conservation Study Institute will celebrate their 10th anniversary with a community open house and celebration Saturday, August, 16th. The park is Vermont’s only national park, located in Woodstock and operated under the arm of the Department of the Interior. The national park, which comprises 550 acres on Mount Tom, was established by an act of Congress in 1992 and opened to the public in 1998.
Official NPS sourceWoodstock, VT – This year’s forestry operations at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park will begin later this month as prescribed in the park’s forest management plan. The 1905 white pine plantation will be thinned by removing unhealthy and less vigorous trees, leaving the largest and healthiest to grow. This stand has been thinned in every decade since the 1950s. Thinning will help to preserve this historic plantation, representative of the evolution of forest management at the park.
Official NPS sourceMarsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park will celebrate its tenth anniversary in the summer of 2008 with the opening of a new building and a new permanent exhibit. The Forest Center, a classroom and meeting space, is constructed almost entirely with wood harvested from the park’s Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified Mount Tom forest. The Forest Center is being considered for a Gold Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification by the U.S. Green Building Council, one of the highest ratings of any building in the national park system and the State of Vermont.
Official NPS sourceWoodstock, VT – Forestry operations in Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park will begin later this month as prescribed in the park’s forest management plan, completed in 2006. Three stands totaling 27 acres will be thinned to promote the growth of healthy trees. The French red pine stand, a small red pine stand near the Pogue, and a small Norway spruce plantation near Prosper Road will thinned by removing less vigorous trees, leaving the largest and healthiest to grow. This action will help to preserve the historic plantations, representative of evolution of forest management on this historical property.
Official NPS sourceThe National Park Service Conservation Study Institute has released a new publication entitled Stewardship Begins with People: An Atlas of Places, People, and Handmade Products. The Atlas tells the many stories of friends and neighbors of national parks, national heritage areas, and national historic landmarks who are practicing a stewardship ethic and demonstrating a commitment to sustainability. The publication chronicles people’s work and craftsmanship and how their products add value to the preservation of authentic traditional cultures and significant cultural landscapes in and around national parks. The Atlas was undertaken to both recognize and encourage this often inter generational stewardship and explore new ways national park areas and their neighbors can work together.
Official NPS sourceMarsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park and The Conservation Fund are pleased announce the availability of a new publication Where Our Four Towns Meet…The Prosper Valley of Barnard, Bridgewater, Pomfret, and Woodstock: A Place “Too Important to be Left to Chance.” The 40-page color publication celebrates the people, landscape and heritage of the Prosper Valley—from the highlands near Barnard Village to the lowlands of the Ottauquechee River in Woodstock.
Official NPS sourceThe American Association of State and Local History (AASLH) has announced that Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park is the recipient of a 2006 Leadership in American History Award for the film Woodstock’s Civil War: A Speakchorus, produced in partnership with Woodstock Union High School (WUHS). The 22-minute film was directed and produced by local filmmaker Charles Rattigan. The AASLH award singled out the contributions of Rattigan, WUHS Theater Director Harriet Worrell, historian Howard Coffin, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Superintendent Rolf Diamant and park rangers Laura Cohen and Susanne McDonald. The AASLH Leadership in History Awards, now in their 61st year, are the most prestigious recognition for achievement in the preservation and interpretation of state and local history
Official NPS sourceWOODSTOCK, VT – At 7:30 pm on Thursday, April 14, 2005, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Pentangle Council on the Arts and Woodstock Union High School will premiere a new film “A Civic Engagement – Woodstock’s Civil War: A Speakchorus” at the Woodstock Town Hall Theatre. The 25 minute film, by Woodstock filmmaker Charles F. Rattigan, is the first ever made chronicling the making of one of Woodstock High School’s world renowned speakchoruses.
Official NPS sourceThe 19th century Victorian Mansion and Carriage Barn Visitor Center open for the season on Saturday, May 28, 2005.
Official NPS sourceWOODSTOCK, VT – The environmental assessment (EA) for Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park’s proposed Historic Wood Barn Project is now posted on the park’s website at www.nps.gov/mabi/pphtml/documents.html. Anyone interested in the project is encouraged to share their thoughts. Comments are welcomed through May 10, 2005 and should be mailed to Resource Manager, Attn: Wood Barn and Mill EA, 54 Elm Street, Woodstock, Vermont 05091 or emailed to Christina_Marts@nps.gov.
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