Success Stories
Installing Livestock Exclusion Best Management Practices Reduces Phosphorus
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
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
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
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...