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….
As I walk onto the ice in the darkness, the horizon is just beginning to show her true colors….
Cold weather has arrived, and you’ve put your garden to bed for the season. That doesn’t mean you can’t…
Amaryllis bulbs and blooms make popular and appreciated holiday gifts. Gifted in full bloom to brighten the winter months…
Live houseplants can make meaningful gifts during the holidays or any time of year for birthdays, housewarming, and other…
For yet another summer, volunteers of all ages hopped in kayaks and canoes to remove European frogbit, a non-native…
Shawn Good has been working to restore muskellunge fish since 2010, when Vermont began stocking them in the Missisquoi…
Julia Parker-Dickinson was depressed. A space near the Quinlan Bridge which she saw as an intersection of wetland, woodland…
What would it be like to use the Charlotte Town Link Trail to walk from Mt. Philo, the highest…
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.”
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.
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?”
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.
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.
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.”
When the weather starts to turn cold, four common insect invaders may show up uninvited in your home.
Fall foliage color has peaked, and leaves are falling. Temperatures are dropping, and it’s time to put the garden to bed.
From August to November, the members of Putney Mountain Hawkwatch stand on the summit of their namesake spotting and surveying migrating raptors.
In late October, trails committee members and other volunteers repaired damage to the Town Link Trail caused by the July storms.
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.
Lewis Creek Association has nearly completed the conversion of a playing field behind the United Church of Hinesburg back to a wetland.