It took a lot of work, but Shadow Lake has been removed from the list of milfoil-infested Vermont lakes.

Keep three school bus lengths betwixt you and them, the Loonwatchers say.

Many turtles killed on Vermont roads are nesting females.

Expect the unexpected in the copper mine cleanup business. If it’s not bats, it’s knocked over port-a-potties.

Animal waste is a major culprit in the development of blue-green algae, a type of cyanobacteria that plagues Lake Champlain and other Vermont waterways, largely due to soil runoff into rivers, streams.

The Thetford Selectboard has an item related to No Mow May on tonight’s meeting agenda after at least one town committee endorsed the strategy.

Building bike paths and homes near jobs is part of South Burlington’s carbon reduction plan. So is planting more trees.

E coli bacteria could have been entering the river for weeks afterwards.

Don’t Undermine Memphremagog’s Purity (DUMP) has appealed a permit to build a PFA treatment plant near the Newport lake.

A Lake Champlain protection program long favored by Sen. Patrick Leahy will bear his name if his $1.7 trillion spending bill passes.

The team created a watchlist of 55 of the state’s most imperiled species based on their restricted ranges, changes in abundance, and the threats they face.

Not since Teddy Roosevelt was president of the United States has the purple crowberry been seen in Vermont. Until now.

Native wild turkeys disappeared with Vermont forest in the late 1800’s. The birds we see everywhere today are descended from 31 wild turkeys restocked 52 years ago.

Biologists are collecting middle incisor teeth from all regular season bucks to help estimate population size, growth rate, health, and mortality rates.

Since July, 10 animals have tested positive for rabies in Chittenden County.

Fall foliage is a chemical reaction, influenced by external factors including climate, water, and length of day. Parts of the process are still actually a bit of a mystery.

Volunteers needed for the annual spiny softshell turtle beach cleanup day Saturday, October 15.

Lake Morey in Fairlee is usually a favorite leafpeeper destination. Now, not so much.

700 thriving bats in Hinesburg are putting Vermont on the map for the nation’s concerned bat-watchers.

There’s only one word to describe cleaning up bags of human waste dumped out in the woods: G-R-O-S-S.

That energy efficiency fee you pay every month is subsidizing marijuana growers.

In a collision between car and moose, no-one wins.

Squirrels are often hunted with a .22 rifle, shotgun, or archery equipment.

Lee stated that she tripped on a stone wall as the bear charged her. She then felt pain on her upper left leg and realized the bear was on top of her and had bitten her. 

Vermont’s bear population is four times as large as it was just 50 years ago. And they will be relatively easy for hunters to find when the season starts in two weeks.

In an effort to reduce rabies in animals, wildlife workers will drop 450,000 doses of sweet-smelling rabies vaccine into 100 Vermont communities, beginning Saturday August 5.

The U.S. Forest Service is rushing through a private development to build a network of privately-owned huts along Silver Lake.

Since the Legislature banned food scraps in trash and garbage disposals in 2020, hungry bears are invading Vermont homes at record levels.

Those hugely expensive phosphorus run-off regs and programs won’t be enough to stop the algae blooms in Lake Champlain, UVM scientists warn.

For about $10 you can buy self-attaching stick on deer whistles that stop deer in their tracks, Steve Merrill says.

One of Vermont’s foremost photographers captured the Northern Lights over Malletts Bay last night.

The food scrap ban and the growth of backyard poultry raising has delighted Vermont’s hungry black bear population.

Antlerless deer permit applications are available online now.

“Loons were removed from Vermont’s endangered species list in 2005, but they face continued threats from human disturbance during the breeding season and ingestion of fishing gear,” said Doug Morin, wildlife biologist with Vermont Fish and Wildlife.

Today, Vermont is home to a stable bear population estimated at 4,600 to 5,780, almost four times the state’s estimated population of 1,200 to 1,500 bears in 1975.

“Discovering a viable population of a federally threatened species unknown in our state for over a century is astounding,” said Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department Botanist Bob Popp. 

Connecticut River sea lamprey aren’t invasive like their Lake Champlain cousins.

The three new appointees to the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board are Nicholas Burnham of Hartland, Neal Hogan of Bennington, and Robert Patterson of Lincoln.