By Joe Rankin The honey bee is an introduced species in North America. It’s only been here about 400 years, brought by English colonists who found none after stumbling ashore and then promptly put in an order with their backers […]
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Vermont battery recycling program launches
Submitted Vermonters are now able to recycle household batteries by bringing them to over 100 drop-off sites statewide. National Battery Day celebrated, Feb. 18 Call2Recycle, Inc., North America’s largest consumer battery stewardship organization, and the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources […]
Goshawk: apex accipiter
By Thomas Ames, Jr. “The Boke of St. Albans,” a 15th century sportsman’s handbook, decreed that only a nobleman could hunt with a falcon, but a mere yeoman might settle for a goshawk. “In the talons there was death,” wrote […]
Discover Ice Age mammals at VINS walk and talk
Courtesy of VINS As previously printed, this mega-mammal stands in the meadow at VINS, though now it has a snowy surrounding, depicting an Ice Age-like environment. Thursday, Feb. 4 at 7 p.m. — QUECHEE — On Thursday, Feb. 4, from 7 to […]