Featured Projects
July 27, 2022
The Zoo de Granby in Québec conducted an outreach program to educate the public about the endangered spiny softshell turtle and engage citizens in actions promoting the health of the ... Read More →
July 27, 2022
The Ausable River Association used a climate-ready culvert design to replace an undersized and failing culvert over the Otis Brook in Jay, NY. The new culvert allows fish and other ... Read More →
September 14, 2021
The Ausable River Association (AsRA) is using environmental DNA (eDNA) to detect and map fish in the New York portion of the Basin. The study will produce distribution maps for ... Read More →
September 14, 2021
The Franklin County Natural Resources District led an effort on behalf of a local landowner to remove the 125-foot-long Johnsons Mill Dam on the Bogue Branch in Bakersfield, Vermont. The ... Read More →
November 21, 2020
Friends of the Mad River (FMR) continues to expand its Storm Smart program for helping property owners protect roads and waterways. Launched in the Mad River Valley of Vermont in 2018, the program is expanding to the Winooski River watershed in partnership with the ... Read More →
November 19, 2020
The Lake George Association (LGA) worked with a group of partners to replace an undersized culvert on Foster Brook in Huletts Landing, NY. In recent years, two catastrophic events (tropical ... Read More →
November 19, 2020
The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum (LCMM) and faculty from Castleton State University are developing lake-focused lesson plans and working with teachers to develop and provide curriculum instruction using a large-format ... Read More →
November 18, 2020
Researchers at the University of Vermont have started a new fish surveying program in Lake Champlain to assess changes in fish populations. The study pays particular attention to the impact of growing lake trout populations ... Read More →
August 7, 2020
The Ausable River Association is studying the use of deicing salt on roads and sidewalks and the amount of salt pollution in waterways in the Lake Placid area. The study ... Read More →
August 7, 2020
Scientists at the University of Vermont are studying wetlands to find out how much phosphorus they hold in their soils after floods. They are looking specifically at riparian wetlands--those along ... Read More →