50 Years a Dirt Forester - Sargent, William
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A Life in the Woods: One Vermonter's Stand for the Land In the spring of 2024, Vermont found itself at a crossroads. A proposed bill backed by anti-hunting advocates threatened to reshape the traditions and values long held by the state's rural communities. Among those who rose to defend them was William Sargent-a man who describes himself as "50 years a dirt forester and never a day behind a desk." What began as testimony to the Vermont House Committee on Environment and Energy soon sparked something more. Encouraged by a colleague who recognized the depth of his stories, Sargent set out to…mehr

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A Life in the Woods: One Vermonter's Stand for the Land In the spring of 2024, Vermont found itself at a crossroads. A proposed bill backed by anti-hunting advocates threatened to reshape the traditions and values long held by the state's rural communities. Among those who rose to defend them was William Sargent-a man who describes himself as "50 years a dirt forester and never a day behind a desk." What began as testimony to the Vermont House Committee on Environment and Energy soon sparked something more. Encouraged by a colleague who recognized the depth of his stories, Sargent set out to capture a lifetime spent in the wild. In this compelling collection, he shares vivid memories of the forests, fields, and mountains he has called home-stories of stewardship, resilience, and the unshakable bond between people and place. This is more than a memoir. It's a passionate tribute to Vermont's natural heritage-and a call to protect it.
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Bill Sargent earned his B.S. from the University of Vermont's School of Natural Resources where he majored in Forest Management and minored in Wildlife Management. He began his career as a forester for a small sawmill in Stamford, Vermont the day after graduating from college. Over the span of 30 years, Sargent worked for several lumber companies in Vermont, New York, and Massachusetts. Eventually he started his own forestry consulting business, working as both a consultant to private landowners and as an industrial procurement forester. In 2003, he started a log and timber marketing firm, where he was joined by his son Wes in 2005. Today they continue to market logs for loggers and private landowners in markets around the world from their log yard in Cambridge, New York. In his spare time, he enjoys creating a welcoming habitat for the many species of wildlife that share the land with him. His current project is growing a small copse of hybridized chestnut trees for animal forage to replace the native species wiped out by the chestnut blight, as well as advocating for a variety of wildlife and forestry issues in the Vermont Legislature. He is married to his wife Shari and is the father of three grown children and the grandfather of four boys.