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Installing Livestock Exclusion Best Management Practices Reduces Phosphorus

by Molly Varner | Feb 23, 2021 | Success Stories

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 Conservation District Tackles Vermont’s Second Greatest Threat

by Molly Varner | Feb 22, 2021 | Success Stories

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...

Bioengineering at Maidstone Lake Reduces Phosphorus

by Molly Varner | Feb 16, 2021 | Success Stories

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...

Green Stormwater Project in St. Johnsbury Wins Award

by Holden | Jul 10, 2019 | Conservation Articles, Features, Press Releases, Success Stories

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...

The Rural Fire Protection Program Celebrates 20 Years

by VACDconnect | Jul 9, 2018 | Features, Success Stories

Home » Success Stories Troy Dare Celebrates 20 Years of Installing Dry Hydrants through the Rural Fire Protection Program By: Luke Rackers, August 25th, 2018. I recently visited with Troy Dare, Program Manager for the Rural Fire Protection Program, on a...

Phosphorous Reduced by 50% in Strawberry Acres Tributary

by VACDconnect | Dec 19, 2017 | Success Stories

Story by Sarah Damsell, Orleans County NRCD District Manager, adapted by Luke Rackers, VACD Communications Coordinator. Conservation Success Story! Orleans County NRCD and Memphremagog Watershed Association highlight local farmers in Newport, VT who reduced their...

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