In 2020, Poultney Mettowee Natural Resources Conservation District worked to implement a 7.4-acre exclusion fencing, berm removal, and riparian buffer planting project on a farm in Pawlet, VT. The Opportunity In 2019, Seth and Diane Butler attended an agricultural...
In 2016, the Rutland Natural Resources Conservation District (RNRCD) treated 1.25 acres of impervious surface at Rutland Town School through implementation of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI), defined as practices that restore and maintain natural...
The Morin farm is in the town of Holland within the Stearns Brook watershed. Stearns Brook flows northeasterly and is listed on the VT Dept of Environmental Conservation 2016 stressed waters list for agricultural and gravel road runoff and morphological instability....
Windham County Forester Sam Schneski and Jack Minich, Americorp Intern with Vermont Land Trust demonstrate the use of buckthorn baggies at a demonstration site. In 1950, ecologist Charles Elton first used the militaristic term “invasion” to label the attack by...
Before & After: The shoreland with a 4-foot-high retaining wall made of deteriorating railroad ties and after coconut fiber rolls and native plants for stabilization were installed. Maidstone Lake, a treasured waterbody formed 12,000 years ago in the Northeast...
July 10, 2019 The first neighborhood-scale Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) project used to mitigate combined sewer overflows in Vermont has been installed and recently won an ACEC-VT Engineering Excellence Award. Green Stormwater Infrastructure projects are used...