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-Jul. 12th 2022

Vermont land use planners and researchers can use new maps that show how different-sized floods will spread across river valleys.

-May. 25th 2022

Researchers find that restoring forests could save Vermont $1 billion in flood damages and enhance climate resilience for low-income households.

-May. 17th 2022

Backyard gardeners and small farmers may play a crucial role in crop diversity and seed saving efforts in Vermont.

-Apr. 27th 2022

The Vermont Reptile & Amphibian Atlas catalogs information on herptile species, their habitat, and their conservation status across the state.

Floodplain Mapping Tool for Conservation and Restoration Planning
Vermont land use planners and researchers can use new maps that show how different-sized floods will spread across river valleys.
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Floodplain Restoration to Help Property Damage and Social Inequality in the Lake Champlain Basin
Researchers find that restoring forests could save Vermont $1 billion in flood damages and enhance climate resilience for low-income households.
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Motivations for Maintaining Crop Diversity on Vermont Farms
Backyard gardeners and small farmers may play a crucial role in crop diversity and seed saving efforts in Vermont.
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Volunteers Bring Vermont Reptile & Amphibian Atlas Entries up to 116,125
The Vermont Reptile & Amphibian Atlas catalogs information on herptile species, their habitat, and their conservation status across the state.
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Balancing Forest Carbon Storage and Wildlife Habitat
Managing for a mosaic of diverse forest habitats across the northeastern U.S. creates a resilient landscape more adapted to climate change.
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Electric Vehicle Fest - Join volunteers from Waterbury LEAP at this annual educational event. Choosing an electric car is a great way to significantly shrink your fuel and maintenance costs, reduce environmental impact, and to find a vehicle that's fun to drive. 2022-08-17

Bird and Bee Friendly Gardening - Late summer is an excellent time to create habitat for the birds and the bees in your garden. Join Audubon Vermont for a late-season gardening workshop and birding outing at Red Wagon Plants with environmental educator, Gwendolyn Causer. 2022-08-18

Managing for Old Forest Characteristics: A Field Workshop for Landowners - Explore how to manage for some of the desired characteristics of old forests with the Vermont Land Trust. You will learn how to recognize an old forest, what the desired characteristics are, and how to choose the best approach for achieving those characteristics. 2022-08-23

Real Estate Professional Workshop: Demystifying FEMA and Floodplain Maps - This workshop is intended for Real Estate Professionals in Vermont. Learn from a Vermont rivers expert how to access and interpret FEMA, state flood hazard, and river corridor maps to determine if a property is at risk for flooding. Become informed about FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program requirements and benefits. 2022-08-25

Common Weed May Be ‘Super Plant’ That Holds Key to Drought-Resistant Crops - Yale scientists published a report in the journal Science Advances which describes how Portulaca oleracea, commonly known as purslane, integrates two distinct metabolic pathways to create a novel type of photosynthesis that enables the weed to endure drought while remaining highly productive. 2022-08-08

Future-proofing the Great Lakes region through climate research - New climate models on warming water temperatures in the Great Lakes region show that small differences in lake surface temperatures have a big impact on summer climate, fueling extreme weather. This is crucial information for climate resilience planning. 2022-08-08

Scientists envisage climate change will severely impact bird communities by 2080 - Leading ecologists from the Department of Biosciences and Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Germany have predicted in their latest research that bird communities will change worldwide in 2080 due to climate change, largely as result of shifting their ranges. 2022-08-08

Coastal Resilience Tool - Coastal Resilience is a program led by The Nature Conservancy to examine nature’s role in reducing coastal flood risk. The program consists of an approach, a web mapping tool, and a network of practitioners around the world supporting hazard mitigation and climate adaptation planning. 2022-08-01