Forestry Learning Community Retreat at Great Mountain Forest

Yale School of the Environment

The Forestry LC gathered at the Yale Camp at Great Mountain Forest for its annual fall retreat in the Litchfield Hills of northwest Connecticut.

Each year, forestry students, faculty, and staff head to the Yale Camp – an eight-acre property deeded to Yale in 1940 within the 6,500-acre Great Mountain Forest – for a weekend of hiking, games, campfires, and community building. The retreat offers incoming students and alumni a chance to stay at the historic facility and explore a landscape shaped by centuries of land use, from colonial-era farming and charcoal production to the reforestation efforts of Yale alumni Starling Childs and Frederic Walcott. It’s also an opportunity for students to connect with Forest School leadership and discuss goals for the academic year ahead.

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