Thirty volunteers braved wild weather to plant 339 native trees and shrubs along the Huntington River to improve bird habitat and flooding resiliency. It would have been a strange scene to onlookers — all thirty of us out in the field dancing to music from the 70s wearing colorful rain gear while April snow blew sideways. Despite the weather and unbeknownst to these onlookers, we were planting hundreds of native plant species along the Huntington River. The day started at eight in the morning with a small group of Audubon Vermont staff organizing native shrubs and trees into clusters for each planting plot. At this point, it was raining and the paper list of plants was getting soggy, and our fingers were losing dexterity to the cold. Still, we worked quickly and efficiently — if someone had overheard us, they might have compared us to an assembly line in a kitchen.…