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The Memphremagog Watershed Association (MWA) is pleased to announce the recipients of scholarship awards to 2025 graduates of area high schools.
This year, the scholarship fund is shared by four highly qualified recipients:
The Memphremagog Watershed Association is pleased to announce the upcoming ground breaking of the Glover Town Office Rain Garden project. This project aims to treat stormwater runoff by installing multiple best management practices throughout the property. The suite of improvements will include rain gardens, infiltration steps, grassed swales, stone lined ditches, drainage culverts, and native riparian buffer plantings.
Strategic wood addition efforts have increased the number of brook trout in the northeast corner of the state by 83,000 over the past 13 years, according to the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department’s conservative estimates. Rodgers admits that, when strategic wood additions are first installed, “it is pretty ugly.” There are limbs and leaves everywhere, and you can barely see the stream under trees, she said. But the structure naturalizes quickly and makes the river ecologically healthier.
According to Kratzer, the department likes to say that “fish grow on trees,” — the living forest provides benefits that continue when trees die and fall into the water, whether the process be natural or human-assisted.
On behalf of the Vermont DEC’s Lakes and Ponds Program, MWA is informing you of an upcoming public meeting to receive public input on State-wide proposed changes to Vermont’s Use of Public Waters Rules. The public hearing for comments on the Proposed revisions of the Wakeboat Rule is being held on July 31 at 6pm at the Gateway Center, 84 Fyfe Drive, Newport, VT 05855
The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation is announcing a public stakeholder process to receive input on proposed changes to Vermont’s Use of Public Waters Rules.
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Sunday, June 8th at 10 am
A new study from the University of Vermont finds streams play an important role in storing climate-warming carbon. From our study, we found that the amount of carbon stored in wood in streams, as forests on the landscape age towards an old-growth condition, we can expect that to increase four to five times.
Stephen Peters-Collaer, Ph.D. candidate and lead author
As Vermonters patiently wait for spring temperatures, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) invites the public to report when Vermont’s lakes and ponds lose their ice cover.
Also known as the “ice-out date,” this date marks when lakes or ponds become ice-free from shore to shore. Tracking ice-out dates helps DEC scientists decide when to begin seasonal water quality sampling efforts.
Vermont’s famous big cats are rumored to be roaming the woods and hills. Here’s how to know if you really did spot one in the wild.
On the latest installment of the Vermont Edition series Animal Hour, Mikaela Lefrak was joined by Declan McCabe, a biologist from St. Michael’s University in Colchester, and renowned wildlife tracker and naturalist Sue Morse of Jericho. They discussed how to identify big cat species, be it a mountain lion, lynx, or bobcat.
