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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...