A new study on increasing salinity levels in freshwater lakes around North America has been in the news recently. The study used data from 371 lakes, including Lake Champlain and several others in Vermont. Researchers found that chloride, the major contributor to salinity in freshwater, has been increasing in many lakes around North America during the … Continue reading
Speaker: Staci Pomeroy, DEC Thursday, April 27, 2017 11:00 AM – Noon National Life Main Building – Winooski Room, M240 In Vermont, river instability contributes the second largest phosphorus load, just over 20%, to Lake Champlain. Learn how projects to protect and restore river corridors in the Lake Champlain Basin are helping to reduce this … Continue reading
The NEW Vermont Inland Lake Score Card is online and ready for use! Designed to answer the question “How is my lake doing?”, the Score Card brings together available data from the Lakes and Ponds Program in a simple, easy to understand format accessed through Google Earth. Viewers use Google Earth to find the lake of their … Continue reading
After a long, cold, quiet Vermont winter, certain sections of the forest explode with life after spring’s first few warm rains. Sunshine glimmers on open water, and the peeps of spring peepers and bloops of wood frogs echo through the trees. These sights and sounds may indicate that you have found a Vernal Pool – … Continue reading
On March 21, 2017 the Southern Windsor County Regional Planning Commission (SWCRPC) hosted an informational meeting on the draft Municipal Roads General Permit (MRGP) framework at the Springfield, VT town hall. Jim Ryan of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources; Department of Environmental Conservation presented the draft framework and facilitated a Q&A session with the … Continue reading
