The Lake Champlain Basin Program facilitated a recent meeting between Vermont and Quebec stakeholders to review efforts to improve the water quality of a bay shared by the state and province. The ...

Farms with five to 199 cows are the primary focus of new rules announced Wednesday. File photo by John Herrick/VTDigger [S]mall farmers will face additional scrutiny of their operations based on new ...

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Phosphorus threatens a key bay in Lake Champlain. WAMC’s North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley reports on the Lake Champlain Basin program and other stakeholder’s efforts to stem the pollution.

The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department's Lake Champlain muskellunge restoration effort got a major boost recently when 10,000 6-inch long muskies were stocked in the Missisquoi River in Swanton. Fish ...

MONTPELIER >&GT The Vermont Agency of Agriculture will not require certain farms in the Missisquoi Bay basin to implement agricultural practices designed to improve water quality in Lake Champlain.

SWANTON - Rip out the old stone causeway at the mouth of Missisquoi Bay, and the water in that nearly isolated part of Lake Champlain might clear up, said Matt Gingras, co-owner of the Hog Island ...

Using future climate change scenarios and water quality projections, experts found that sediment and the blue-green algae producing nutrients phosphorus and nitrogen are likely to increase in the ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources is holding three public meetings this spring as it develops a plan for improving water quality in the Missisquoi Bay basin. The agency ...

BURLINGTON (AP) -- The state of Vermont is pushing back by eight years its target date for ending noxious algae blooms in northern Lake Champlain. A new lake cleanup plan from the Agency of Natural ...

Water conditions in St. Albans Bay have been strange this summer — strangely clean. On hot days in July and early August, dozens of people actually swam at the town beach, which in past years has been ...