A pioneering 2018 through-paddle from east to west by Peter Macfarlane In the Spring of 2013, I through-paddled the Northern Forest Canoe Trail. Nominally it is 740 miles from Old Forge in the south-western Adirondacks to Fort Kent on the St John River in far northern Maine. It encompasses … [Read More...]
Vermont’s Wildlife in a Changing Climate
This article was written by Tom Rogers, Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department. In many ways, moose are the bellwether species for climate change in Vermont. The moose’s enormous bodies covered with thick scruffy fur and their knobby, spindly legs make them well adapted for cold, northern … [Read More...]
Vermont’s Original Rail to Trail: The Long Trail and Logging Railroads
This article was written by Preston Bristow and originally appeared in the Fall 2014 Long Trail News. Green Mountain logging railroads lacked the grand scale of those in the Adirondacks, where twenty-two railroads reached deep to extract old growth forests. And railway loggers in the Green … [Read More...]
