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Watersheds United Vermont 2023 Accomplishments of Vermont’s Watershed Groups
Watershed groups are community-based organizations working to protect and restore Vermont’s rivers, streams, and lakes.
Watershed groups work in their communities on a suite of restoration
and protection activities that improve water quality and lead to healthy
and resilient waters and watersheds.
This report highlights the activities and projects of 15 watershed groups
across Vermont. Each section of this report focuses on a type of watershed restoration work and includes a few of the many watershed group success stories during 2023.Clyde River Clean Up: 50 Tires And Counting
ED BARBER, Staff Writer, The Newport Daily Express
Sep 15, 2024The third annual Clyde River clean up yielded 50 tires, the front end of a canoe, a children’s toy slide, and a whole lot more junk. On Saturday, 27 volunteers paddled 12 canoes and two kayaks down the river from West Charleston to Little Salem on a mission to clean one small part of the environment.
A combination of organizations and unaffiliated volunteers worked downriver, searching for material that is not a part of the Clyde River’s natural environment. Two previous events successfully removed debris from the lower section of the river. Saturday’s event focused on a stretch of the river below a series of rapids that hadn’t been touched.
The Memphremagog Watershed Association (MWA) has organized river clean up projects in past years. Three years ago the members decided to restart the event with an original focus on the Clyde River. They teamed with the Orleans County Natural Resources Conservation District (OCNRCD) and Northwoods Stewardship Center to organize this year’s event.
Brook trout populations spike after state program adds wood to streams
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.Lake Wise – What Is It?
If enough of us on Lake Memphremagog work together to win shoreline Lake Wise awards, we can improve the health of Memphremagog and become a GOLD Lake Wise Lake like Seymour, Echo and Little Averill. Now, wouldn’t that be great?
Invasive Aquatic Plant Phragmites Removal Project, Chemical Treatment To Be Applied
The invasive species of plant known as phragmites is being removed from the Scott’s Cove region on Lake Memphremagog. The walking path will be closed for a few days when a herbicide is applied to specific sections of the infestation. (Photo by Ed Barber)
Water Science Education
CUAHSI’s Cyberseminar program enables researchers to circulate their work to the community by providing an inexpensive and convenient alternative to in-person meetings. Each cyberseminar series features presentations from experts on a new or timely topic, and all cyberseminars are free and open to the public.
