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by Kate Kampner, Community News Service When Peter Stickney walks along his cow paddocks in the morning, he notes the scattered patches of greener grass across the pasture. He knows what this means: It’s where his cows have peed.
Vermont Business Magazine At 8 pm Thursday, May 2, Professor Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux from the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University of Vermont, will give a lecture covering the latest climate change science coming out of the 2023 National Climate Assessment and the implementation of Vermont’s first ever Climate Action Plan, which was adopted in December 20
Vermont Business Magazine The Composting Association of Vermont (CAV) is excited to announce the significant expansion of resources in its multimedia On-Farm Community Composting Toolkit. The toolkit provides technical support and training for community-oriented food scrap composting and manure management on farms in rural and small communities throughout the US.
Vermont Business Magazine Ahead of this year’s boating season, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has published a new rule regulating wakeboats and wakesports under Vermont’s Use of Public Waters Rules.
Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department Herricks Cove Wildlife Festival: This is a family-friendly festival with an emphasis on the wildlife and natural resources of Vermont. The festival will feature live animals, nature-focused walks, kids’ activities, presentations by environmental and nature organizations.
Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel (VT NDCAP) will hold its first regular meeting of 2024 on Monday evening, May 13th, from 6:00 PM to 8:15 PM. At this meeting, NorthStar and Vermont State Agencies will provide updates on recent Vermont Yankee (VY) decommissioning activities. The Vermont State Agencies rep
Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board will hold two more public hearings on May 6 and 8 to solicit input on deer and the department’s 2024 Antlerless Harvest and Youth/Novice Recommendation. The hearings are scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont’s popular fish and wildlife summer course for teachers and other educators will be held July 14-19, 2024. The interactive field course that gets educators out into Vermont’s streams, forests and wetlands with some of the state’s leading natural resource experts takes place at the Buck Lake Conservation Camp in Woodbury.
Vermont Business Magazine Today the Vermont Senate gave initial approval to H.72, an act relating to a harm-reduction criminal justice response to drug use, on a tripartisan vote of 21-8.
Vermont Business Magazine Governor Phil Scott has named award-winning Brandon poet and teacher Bianca Stone the next Vermont Poet Laureate.
Vermont Business Magazine Attorney General Charity Clark today announced that Vermont received $24,885,098.40 from tobacco manufacturers under the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA). Annually, Vermont receives monies from tobacco manufacturers from the MSA, which resolved the State’s lawsuit filed in the 1990’s.
Vermont Business Magazine US Senator Peter Welch (D-Vermont) on Tuesday joined Public Knowledge, FCC Commissioners Anna Gomez and Geoffrey Starks, U.S.