By Vermont Fish & Wildlife photos: Fish & wildlife specialist Dave Gibson with a muskie caught during past fisheries sampling work. Vermont Fish & Wildlife will be stocking over 5,000 muskellunge fingerlings in the Missisquoi River and Missisqoui Bay in […]
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Endangered Vt. timber rattlers face deadly fungal disease
Courtesy of Tom Rogers, Vt Fish & Wildlife Vermont’s wildlife biologists are watching endangered timber rattlesnakes for signs they’ve been stricken with a newly discovered infection called “snake fungal disease.” Vermont conservationists are battling a new obstacle in the effort […]
News Briefs: Lakes Region
By Lani Duke School districts look to future Education reform law Act 46 with its tax incentives has gained the support of Addison-Rutland Supervisory Union school board members, who plan to lobby for an accelerated merger by fall 2017. Citing […]
2015 lake sturgeon sampling yields encouraging results
Vermont Fish & Wildlife photo Jon Kimball and Chet MacKenzie of Vermont Fish & Wildlife with a lake sturgeon captured and released in the Winooski River in May. Record number of sturgeon collected, tagged in Lake Champlain tributaries RUTLAND—Fisheries staff […]
Birdwatchers revel in return of migratory songbirds
Courtesy Vt. Fish & Wildlife Ample opportunities exist to look for breeding birds throughout the spring and summer at Vermont’s 84 Wildlife Management Areas. Local birders have good reason to be a-twitter. Migratory songbirds are back in the Vermont’s forests […]
Anglers reminded of lake sturgeon protection and state law
Vermont Fish & Wildlife photo Fisheries biologist Chet MacKenzie from Vermont Fish & Wildlife with a lake sturgeon captured and released this spring in the Winooski River. RUTLAND – The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is reminding anglers of the […]
Vermont bass fishing season opened June 13
Courtesy of Vt. Fish & Wildlife Aiden Good of Pittsford, Vt., holds up a beautiful Vermont largemouth bass that he caught and released earlier this year. Saturday, June 13, marked the opening of Vermont’s regular bass season, which runs through […]
Vermont Days offer free fishing and free access to state parks and historic sites
Courtesy of Vermont Fish & Wildlife A young angler is guided in the art of the cast, a memory surely held by many a child. Vermont Days are an annual invitation to visitors and Vermonters to explore Vermont’s excellent fishing, […]
Vt. Fish & Wildlife urges everyone to avoid bear problems by removing food sources
Photo courtesy of the Ontario (Canada) Ministry of Natural Resources Vermont Fish & Wildlife Dept. is receiving many reports of hungry bears getting into trash containers as well as raiding bird feeders, bee hives and chicken houses. “Human conflicts involving […]
Fish & Wildlife Board votes to ban natural deer urine lures
The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Board has voted to ban the possession and use by hunters of natural lures based on deer urine or other fluids beginning in 2016. By doing so the board hopes to reduce the threat of […]