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.

Boaters, it is up to you to protect Vermont waters from invasions of exotic plants and animals.

Handling young wildlife is bad for them AND you – no matter how lost or cute the furry little thing looks.

See migrating trout jump upstream as you watch from a bridge in Orleans.

There are more loons in Vermont now than any year since 1978. The State of Vermont is keeping track.

An injured adult bald eagle that went through three months of ‘rehab’ was released back into the wild in Berlin on October 20.

The Scott administration is targeting federal ARPA money to help towns and cities eliminate the need to dump combined stormwater/wastewater into lakes and streams.

Enjoy the warm fall weather, but beware the cyanobacteria. Not everything that blooms is pretty, or even safe to touch.

A hemorrhagic disease has been found in Vermont deer for the first time.

A hemorrhagic disease is killing deer on Vermont’s borders – and may be here already.

Volunteers needed to help prepare nesting sites for endangered baby turtles.

The Vermont Dept. of Fish & Wildlife wants to add the bumblebee to the endangered species list, and take the bald eagle off it.

Less than 50 miles remain before snowmobilers, bikers and hikers can cross Vermont on the Lamoille Valley Trail.

Archery deer season starts in just five weeks.

To prevent a rabies outbreak, Vermont and federal wildlife officials are collaborating on the 25th annual anti-rabies bait drop.

Appointed by local selectboards, tree wardens make determinations about public shade trees. A new state law requires more reporting but also offers educational opportunities.

An EPA Superfund mine cleanup 22 years in the making is nearing completion.

Hated millfoil is being reduced on one Vermont lake after another.

One little part of my brain knows the bat in my house isn’t going to hurt me. But all the rest of me is like, I AM GOING TO DIE.

Baitfish pose a threat to native brook trout that have existed in Vermont ponds for thousands of years.

Members of the Vermont Climate Council agreed (not so regretfully) that paying for carbon emission programs will require a carbon tax.

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department says many people are having problems with bears looking for food near their homes, and with the food scrap ban in effect the department is providing tips for people who are composting at home so they can avoid attracting hungry bears. 

Vermont’s forests and wood products consume and store 45% of all of Vermont’s carbon emissions – both manmade and natural, VT Forest & Parks Commissioner Michael Snyder said on Common Sense Radio show on WDEV.

A $1 million federal grant will help the State of Vermont buy for more electric buses for public transportation.

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department says deer fawns are being born this time of year and asks that people avoid disturbing or picking them up. 

Many anglers, boaters, and other outdoor enthusiasts along the shore of Lake Champlain in Addison County, Vermont, and elsewhere, may not be familiar with the Spiny Softshell turtle with its melodious Latin scientific name Apalone spinifera.