Vermont’s Conservation Districts Receive $1.5m Grant to Expand Water Quality Protection and Habitat Restoration Efforts

by Molly Varner | Apr 28, 2021 | Press Releases

The State Natural Resources Conservation Council (NRCC) has been awarded a $1.5 million grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) to support its Vermont Stream Restoration...

Willow Staking for Bank Stabilization and Water Quality

by Molly Varner | Apr 5, 2021 | Conservation Articles

By Franklin County Natural Resources Conservation During the final week of March 2021, the Franklin County Natural Resources Conservation District was out harvesting, trimming, and installing native willow stakes for a streambank restoration project in Fairfax along...

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...

A Conversation with Daton Fleury, retired farmer and District supervisor

by Jeannie Bartlett | Nov 3, 2020 | Conservation Articles, Franklin Co

Daton Fleury is a retired dairy farmer and sugar-maker in Richford. In December of last year, he retired from the Franklin County Natural Resources Conservation District’s supervisory board after 50 years of service. This August, Franklin County NRCD staff Jeannie...

Conservation District and Richford campers create a “Locals’ Nature Guide”

by Jeannie Bartlett | Sep 29, 2020 | Conservation Articles, Franklin Co, Press Releases

This week the Franklin County Conservation District released the second edition of a nature guide created with help from Richford NOTCH day campers. A first edition of “The Locals’ Nature Guide to the Richford Playground” was released in 2017 and featured over 30...

How are your trees?

by Jeannie Bartlett | Feb 26, 2020 | Conservation Articles, Franklin Co, Uncategorized

Here’s a question for you: How are the trees you purchased from our tree sale doing? Every year we distribute thousands of stems through our sale, but rarely do we hear of the lives these trees go on to live (or not live.) There are two reasons we want to know how...

Berkshire farmer works to restore stream

by Jeannie Bartlett | Feb 25, 2020 | Conservation Articles, Franklin Co

In the Lake Champlain Basin, water defines our landscape. The erosive force of water carves out steep drainages along our mountain faces, adding definition to the Green Mountains’ most iconic peaks. It forms the valleys we inhabit, where the water can spread out, slow...

Restoring Trout Habitat at the Johnsons Mill Dam

by Jeannie Bartlett | Feb 25, 2020 | Conservation Articles, Franklin Co

The District is working with state and federal wildlife agencies to remove the Johnsons Mill Dam in Bakersfield, reconnecting habitat for native brook trout and improving water quality. The Johnsons Mill Dam, built on the Bogue Branch near Witchcat Road, was once a...

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