How Lake Champlain scientists are prepping for future floods

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.

Carving canoe with fire, Vermont Abenaki tribes find reflection along Missisquoi

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.