For more than a century, this land was a village dumping ground, first for refuse and later for snow, and locals called it the Jungle. In 2009, Sustainable Woodstock, a community conservation organization, created a vision to restore the health and beauty of the site, and after more than a decade of planning, fundraising, and work, Sustainable Woodstock’s East End Action Group volunteers helped make it a reality. After seven years of planning and effort, the snow dump was moved to a new site in 2016, crews removed tons of debris, and volunteers prepared soil and planted native trees and shrubs on bare riverbanks and hillsides, helping hold soil in place and keep the Ottauquechee River clean. This restoration continued a long conservation tradition in Woodstock. Founded in 1904 to beautify Woodstock, the Woodstock Improvement Society instituted garbage collection, cleaned up derelict properties, created and cared for community gardens, erected an eight-foot fence around the dump here to hide it from view, and promoted the idea that all citizens share responsibility for caring for their home place.