“Beechnut production is poor statewide,” said Comeau. “We found no beechnuts in most surveys. There was one outlier in northcentral Vermont, but even there beechnut production only ranked as fair.”
Of the 180 permits available, 174 were issued by lottery, to which nearly 5,800 hunters applied
“It was not a good year for monarchs (in Vermont),” McFarland said. “Monarch productivity was terrible.” He believes the bad heat waves and heavy rain the state faced in July put a strain on the population migrating north.
The big vote on the Unaffordable Heat Act is coming up right after the election after all! But home heating and cooking account for less than half of overall greenhouse gas emissions, and an equal if not larger chunk comes from transportation, a.k.a. all you miscreants daring to drive your cars and trucks.
No frogs, burning hail, insects, or the angel of death, but from where I sit (roughly an hour away from their state border), the checkboxes for Vermont fall short. They don’t tag drought or inland flooding, which puts the entire exercise on notice, especially after the past two years.
Bats migrate between winter and summer roosts during the fall and spring and do not have vulnerable young at these times. You can learn how to safely evict bats from your building at the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department’s best management practices page.
The Town Meeting resolution would prohibit the intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight.”
“I think it’s a.. I think its a very terrible and scary idea. Basically the one big way we know how to do this is to pour sulfur into the atmosphere in order to block incoming sunlight and cool the planet,”
Burlington, known for its progressive environmental values, has ironically contributed millions of gallons of partially treated or untreated sewage to Lake Champlain due to aging wastewater systems. These events, along with Vermont’s broader struggles with phosphorus contamination, raise the question of whether the state’s regulatory and economic policies are counterproductive in solving the very problems they claim to address.
In a statewide effort, there are small eco-friendly modular homes called Vermods being distributed to address housing.
“Faith communities have a real power,” the organization’s coordinator said. “The climate crisis is a spiritual crisis.”
Nearly 800 truck loads of material will be shipped to the site this fall to help construct a containment cell for mine waste.
Human contact ‘should not compromise the exceptional features identified’ in ‘Highly Sensitive Management areas,’ a new draft regulation says.
Organizers discourage participants from engaging with those who disagree about climate change but still says climate mitigating policies should be promoted whenever possible.
While spending big to reduce carbon emissions, the State of Vermont failed to fully implement 2/3 of its own recommended flood mitigation measures.
With their own kits, groups measure E.coli bacteria levels, the marker used by the EPA to measure how safe water is to swim in.
EEEV is a rare but serious disease transmitted to people by infected mosquitos.
“We are going to stop this crime,” said the former presidential candidate who has been promised a position of influence in an incoming Trump administration.
“Maladapted” environmentalism does more harm than good.
Coca-Cola’s single-use plastic bottle boondoggle.
Vermont has been a “California Car” state for many years, along with several of our neighbors.
EPA and UN eclipse logic with methane gaslighting.
Seeds, twigs and insect parts in ice core stun scientists and confirm that center of ice sheet was melted in recent past.
The letter said that such events will likely happen more in the future, making adequate FEMA response even more vital.
The mission is to reduce the distance pollinators like bees and butterflies must go to get nectar and pollen. The gardens, in effect, form a highway.
Ten swiftwater rescue teams were dispatched to the area overnight and have conducted approximately two dozen rescues from flooded areas.
“It’s hard for Vermonters to know if we have an Attorney General who is willing to fight to protect our taxpayers from what could be an expensive lawsuit.”-Dame
Researchers also announced the Lake Champlain Sea Grant was awarded just under $300,000 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
In stifling, almost oppressive heat and humidity, a small troop of aged, sweaty volunteers waged war against an invasive pest proliferating across the landscape.
“We’re trying to start small and tackle this issue,” said a junior involved in the effort. “It’s hard to see the world destructing and not take action.”
Researchers used over 120 years of data to find how melting ice, dwindling groundwater, and rising seas are nudging the planet’s spin axis and lengthening days.
Much of the land they are trying to conserve currently does not belong to the state. Approximately 75% in Vermont is owned by private landowners.
Environmentalist: I conclude that although RGGI has been effective raising revenues it is not an effective CO2 emission reduction program.
Growth of recycling flat, except for old furniture
The bill being considered contains language that would mandate environmental protection and conservation 30% of VT’s land by 2030, and 50% of VT’s land by 2050
If you really want to lower “global emissions”…
Blue-green algae produces neurotoxins and liver toxins. The problem is growing rapidly as politicians accelerate development and fail to regulate polluters.
“We’re not on the level of having gigantic fires in Vermont yet,” Dillner said. But officials believe Vermonters should prepare to protect their homes, health.
John has decades experience working in VT Government, protecting the environment and Vermonters, and then watching it fall into greed and “Green” corruption.
Vermont citizens will need to come together and agree that whatever the deal may be, their current crop of “leaders” does not have their best interests at heart
A special meeting of the Thetford Selectboard was held Monday evening about planning and public health concerns around the now-closed Post Mills landfill.
In a changing climate, smallholder farmers hold the key to feeding the world: adapting our seeds, UVM evolutionary biologist Yolanda Chen says
Plain and simple, the supermajority chose REV and VPIRG, special interest groups, and their high cost, impulsive Renewable Energy Standard.
The RES Series, Part II: The advice of Annette Smith, Executive Director, Vermonters for a Clean Environment (VCE).
The RES Series Part I: The interests of renewable energy industrialists versus those of Vermont and the the environment.
Forget about birds, bees, bats and bears. All public policy must be laser focused on reducing carbon emissions, no matter the cost.
Two UVM scientists will contribute to the First National Nature Assessment.
Jason Herman, the facility’s chief operator, confirmed that these incidents are becoming more frequent.
Developers who invested in land to build in South Burlington argue that the City is unfairly enforcing restrictions on development within wildlife corridors.
The environmental costs of food production. Biden’s “Social Justice” undermines food supplies
Former State Senator John Rodgers noted while on the Morning Drive Radio show Friday the amount of special interests influencing state energy policy.
Federal money ticketed for Wrightsville, East Barre and Waterbury dams, and more.
The bear euthanized this morning in Underhill was attracted into an area resident’s yard by recycling left outside the front door this morning.
Close to 500 landowners have expressed interest in being paid around $300 an acre, dispersed over a 20-year period, for preserving forestland.
It is clear to me that offshore is not as steady as the pro-wind rhetoric would have you believe.
By taking steps to improve indoor air quality during these seasons, Vermonters can keep their homes healthy and allergy symptoms at bay.
No public show up; person hired to explain the program admits he doesn’t understand it; reveals chaos behind the scenes.
Aeration “resulted in much higher surface water total phosphorus and stronger, more protracted cyanobacteria blooms.”
While still in the design phase at the Public Utilities Commission, the economic devastation of Act 18 is already hitting home for small fuel dealers.
This week Vermont Senate passed the Renewable Energy Standard bill (H.289) by a vote of 18-8.
Hunters have been the primary force for conservation since it’s inception in the US.
Misinformation is a threat to our democracy, both nationally and as a state. At least here, being fact-based and credible is important to the bulk of advocates,
It was neatly summed up by TAG member Christopher Trombly’s revelation, “We’re taxing the poor so that the rich can benefit.”
State Fisheries Biologist Lee Simard: “We are evaluating the new Eagle Lake strain of rainbow trout against our traditionally stocked Erwin-Arlee strain…”
Untreated sludge overflows can pose risks to public health and aquatic life due to the high levels of bacteria, nutrients, and other pollutants present.
Bears have begun emerging from their dens earlier than usual this spring.
The bill says companies that distribute PCBs must pay for the testing and removal of the chemicals in Vermont’s schools.
Researchers have concerns about the relation between the bald eagles’ rise and a receding blue heron population in the state.
Nearly a year after passage the most basic concepts around “the plan” remain unaddressed.
Mission Creep: Proposed EPA rule shuts down small meat producers
The true environmental damage from EV mandates.
This cherished landscape is going away. We are blotting it out bit by bit, and once those bits are gone, we can’t get them back
50 years ago Vermont reintroduced turkeys to the Vermont wild. Now Fish & Wildlife is seeing early success at reintroducing another large bird – this one with ancestors from Vermont’s Pleistocene era.
Curiously, the cow-concerned want to exterminate cows from the planet, and humanity’s only shot at preventing desertification and starvation along with them.
A bill to guarantee increased wetlands under state management will cost at least $1 million next year, if it passes.
An environmental group is offering to pay $75 to ‘conservation advocates’ who will advance the U.N.-based State of Vermont plan for 50% conservation of total land area by 2050.
A wealth transfer from poor to rich that doesn’t reduce emissions.
The Floor Report: 03/21/2024.
Sponsoring Rep. deploys word salad to avoid stating truths about the bill.
The crisis has regulators scrambling.
A cautionary tale against climate engineering.
Also, be alert for frogs and salamanders while driving.
Vermonters need to take steps now to prevent bear conflicts.
A recent study concludes that explosive repopulation of Arctic terrain by beavers is thawing large areas of tundra and releasing climate-destroying methane.
Like its counterpart committee in the House, the Vermont Senate committee on the environment is rife with references to policies promoted by the United Nations.
Nearly 9,000 gallons released.
The dark side of H.289, 100% renewable electricity by 2030: when all else fails, Dem’s resort to renewables-shaming
Stormwater permit compliance will cost up to $1 million per county fair. “You just can’t make that kind of money up at the fairground,” Folsom said.
UVM’s Trish O’Kane on her new book and how birds saved her soul.
“The road to this plastic misfire was paved with green intentions—untempered by any serious cost-benefit analysis.”
Scientists are speaking up for beef.
A Vermont mammal has died of the highly pathogenic avian flu.
“Scientists are resorting to once unthinkable techniques to cool the planet because global efforts to check greenhouse gas emissions are failing,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
No funding to pay people to design the program, let alone run it!
Renewable Energy Vermont, Sen. White, and industry lawyers like Wilschek are determined to clear the path for their profit-driven renewable energy projects, including removing us “NIMBY” Vermonters.
Sen. White has turned this situation upside down. Aesthetics has nothing to do with it. Poor towns have been targeted because they are vulnerable to monetary promises.
Bill would require more updates to endangered species list, restrict taking species from habitats.
The ugly head of eco-Marxism.
Following a number of unusual weather events here in Vermont in the past year, more and more people are questioning the “natural” causes of these disasters.
Matching funds for habitat projects sponsored by the stamp have come from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program.
