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Healthy Rivers Are Made in the Shade
A river is defined entirely by the land that it flows through.
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Editorial
Last winter, my wife and I visited her childhood friend, Margaret, in Montreal. Margaret was driving us around sight-seeing, and Mary and I sat in back listening to Margaret’s mother, Evelyn, tell a story about another ride she’d taken 80 years ago.
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Another View
It wasn’t just taxes on tea that provoked the colonists to rebel against England for the right to create their own government. The extraction and use of natural resources from the new world for the empire was also a source of contention between the colonists and the English. This was more than taxation without representation; it was a violation of… (more)
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A Safer Way to Fell Trees
A chainsaw can cut through muscle and bone as easily as it does yellow birch or rock maple. But it’s just one potential source of danger for the people who make their living in the woods. Hung-up trees, falling limbs and high winds can all result in serious injury or death. Any logger can tell harrowing tales of near misses-… (more)
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Arthur Heitmann: Sixty Years in the Vermont Forest
If forestry in Vermont dates back to sometime just before 1900, then Montpelier’s Arthur F. Heitmann has served the profession for nearly two-thirds of its entire history. In forestry terms, Heitmann has been working here for the better part of the rotation period during which Vermont’s trees have grown back from the pioneer species of the hill farm abandonment era… (more)
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The Keys to Color
Canada geese fly over almost every night and every day. They fly by the hundreds in long orderly V-shaped formations that point south. The birds call constantly in haunting high cries that make you scan the skies while they are still far away. I also saw a group of fourteen ravens fly south.The ravens play individually, in pairs, or in… (more)
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It takes a certain amount of generosity to let strangers use your land. Such beneficence conflicts with our impulse to be wary of outsiders, to protect home and hearth.
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Vermont’s Coyotes
One of Vermont’s more recent denizens, the Eastern coyote (Canis latrans var.) is regarded by many as a timber wolf in slightly reduced form. It isn’t, because the coyote’s size, social structure, diet, and habits differ substantially from those of its big cousin. In one respect, however- the ability to generate controversy- the coyote certainly rivals the wolf.
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Editorial
When I first tried to learn to identify plants it was tough going. I’d spend hours studying field guides but then when I went outdoors I could hardly ever find the plants I had “learned.”
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Another View
In 1968, I spent some time as a Montpelier High School student “shadowing” Senator Bill Doyle at the state house. One of the most pressing issues facing the legislature at that time was funding education through property taxes. And now, over a quarter of a century later, we are still talking about the issue of school funding and property taxes.
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