An ode to Gray Stevens, a legend of outdoor sports
As I walk onto the ice in the darkness, the horizon is just beginning to show her true colors….
Garden inside this winter
Cold weather has arrived, and you’ve put your garden to bed for the season. That doesn’t mean you can’t…
Caring for amaryllis during the holidays and beyond
Amaryllis bulbs and blooms make popular and appreciated holiday gifts. Gifted in full bloom to brighten the winter months…
Five tips for gifting live indoor plants
Live houseplants can make meaningful gifts during the holidays or any time of year for birthdays, housewarming, and other…
Wrapping up the water quality stewardship field season
For yet another summer, volunteers of all ages hopped in kayaks and canoes to remove European frogbit, a non-native…
Radio tags let scientists monitor muskies in Missisquoi
Shawn Good has been working to restore muskellunge fish since 2010, when Vermont began stocking them in the Missisquoi…
Julia Parker-Dickinson has created a path for pollinators
Julia Parker-Dickinson was depressed. A space near the Quinlan Bridge which she saw as an intersection of wetland, woodland…
From summit to lake: A walk from Mt. Philo to town beach
What would it be like to use the Charlotte Town Link Trail to walk from Mt. Philo, the highest…
Saffron: World’s most expensive spice
Did you know that the world’s most expensive spice comes from a type of crocus? It’s true. Saffron is derived from Crocus sativus, commonly known as the “saffron crocus.”
Weed, ducks converge in lawsuit pitting state against city
Bright bracelets hang on the wire door to Jason Struthers’ duck coop. They’re relics of a time before neighborly relationships on a small cul-de-sac close to Essex High School turned sour.
Memories, dreams and reflections from deer camp
As the calendar flips to November, I ask myself, “How many hunters still cherish the old paper calendars, like the classic Remington Arms ones of yesteryear?”
First invasive golden clam confirmed in Lake Champlain
When a volunteer pulled a suspicious clam from the lakebed in Whitehall, N.Y., as part of a routine monitoring program last month, they immediately reported the find to lake scientists.
How Lake Champlain scientists are prepping for future floods
Vermont scientists aren’t sure what could happen in the future as far as flooding goes, but as colder temperatures arrive, they’re continuing to monitor water quality in Lake Champlain and research ways to protect it in anticipation for winter and summer floods like those in the past two years.
Barges lay cable from Quebec to NYC
As Nancy Wood watched the almost block-long cluster of vessels float before her earlier this month, she recalls, all she could think was: “It was the biggest thing I had ever seen on the lake.”
Four common invasive and annoying fall insect pests
When the weather starts to turn cold, four common insect invaders may show up uninvited in your home.
Putting the fall garden to bed with spring dreams
Fall foliage color has peaked, and leaves are falling. Temperatures are dropping, and it’s time to put the garden to bed.
Birders work to preserve monarch butterflies’ migration
From August to November, the members of Putney Mountain Hawkwatch stand on the summit of their namesake spotting and surveying migrating raptors.
Happy trails — and trail workers — restoring town trail
In late October, trails committee members and other volunteers repaired damage to the Town Link Trail caused by the July storms.
Carving canoe with fire, Vermont Abenaki tribes find reflection along Missisquoi
Near where the Missisquoi River meets Lake Champlain sits a large grassland where open fields meld with shallows and long grass peeks out of the water as far as the eye can see. On a Sunday in September, as the grass hissed in the wind, a small group pieced together tarps and tents there for the nights to come.
Athletic fields reverting to wetlands to improve lake water quality
Lewis Creek Association has nearly completed the conversion of a playing field behind the United Church of Hinesburg back to a wetland.