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Forest Service releases plan for White River Valley

By VPR | April 22, 2009

The U.S. Forest Service has improvement plans for some of its land in five towns in the White River Valley. The goal is to improve wildlife habitat, and networks of hiking trails and roads in the area of the Green Mountain National Forest known as the Upper White River Area.

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Forest Service asks sugarmakers to look for beetle

By VPR | March 30, 2009

The U.S. Forest Service is asking Northeast maple syrup producers to report signs of the Asian Longhorned Beetle. The insects bore dime-sized holes in hardwood trees, eventually killing them.

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Impact on bear population could affect wind project

By Susan Keese | November 6, 2008

The Deerfield Wind Project calls for seventeen, 400-foot turbines to be built on Green Mountain National Forest land in Searsburg and Readsboro. The project would be near a smaller wind farm operated by Green Mountain Power on private property in Searsburg.

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Agency finds wind farm could hurt bear habitat

By John Dillon | September 12, 2008

A wind project planned for national forest land in southern Vermont would supply needed clean energy for the region, but could also harm bear habitat. Those are among the findings in a Draft Environmental Impact Statement released this week by the Forest Service. VPR’s John Dillon reports:

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Farm bill includes provision allowing Bromley Resort to buy Green Mountain National Forest land

By Ross Sneyd | May 15, 2008

Earlier this afternoon, the U-S Senate passed a five-year extension of the farm bill. Senator Patrick Leahy has been widely praised by farmers because the legislation expands a dairy price support program. But, as VPR’s Ross Sneyd reports, a few other provisions that Leahy inserted into the bill have also gotten attention.