Federally threatened orchid discovered in Vermont
“It’s Vermont’s equivalent of rediscovering the ivory-billed woodpecker.”
Disease could threaten Vermont’s rabbits, hares
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department says a disease affecting rabbits and hares previously found in western states may be moving eastward. Rabbit hemorrhagic disease (RHDV2) is a virus known to be extremely lethal to wild and domestic rabbits, including cottontail rabbits and snowshoe hares. RHDV2 was first found in New Mexico in 2010, but
Agency: Record Lake Champlain lake trout a testament to successful sea lamprey control efforts
The 36.5-inch laker weighed 19.36 pounds, the largest lake trout from Lake Champlain entered in the Record Fish Program since the department started keeping fish records in 1969.
CWD reaches beyond U.S. borders and, for first time, into Quebec
Wildlife officials in neighboring Vermont on alert after confirmation in a captive red deer herd in the Canadian province.
Vermonter ‘grew as an angler, changed tactics’ to complete state’s first ‘Master Angler Sweep’
Drew Price of Colchester, Vt., spent eight years in his quest to be the first to catch and enter all 33 species in the Vermont program.
Vermont deer harvest up 13 percent over previous three-year average
“The legal buck harvest of 9,477 was 8 percent more than the previous three-year average of 8,760, and the third-highest buck harvest since 2002.”
Behemoth carp among new record fish in Vermont
New state records also set for cisco and redhorse sucker in 2017.
Mosquitofish buzz: Non-native baitfish crops up in Vermont
SWANTON, Vt. — The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department responded to an angler report of an unusual fish in his bait bucket and cited a Vermont baitfish wholesaler for illegally importing unapproved fish species into the state. Hog Island Wholesale Bait and Tackle in Swanton was cited under 10 V.S.A. §4601 Taking fish; possession, and
Vermont sees strong deer harvest numbers in 2017 hunts
Buck harvest particularly high in Green Mountain State.
