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The Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation (FPR) has completed a new publication to help forest managers understand potential impacts of an insect pest that is poised at Vermont’s borders.
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What's New
May 1, 2012
Irene Gives Boost to Invasive Plant in Vermont
Last year’s hurricanes and flooding not only engulfed homes and carried away roads and bridges in hard-hit areas of the country, it dispersed aggressive invasive species as well.
In Vermont, the floodwaters from Tropical Storm...
April 30, 2012
Vt. Prepares For Arrival Of Emerald Ash Borer
A slender dark beetle with metallic green highlights has been decimating ash trees in a number of states and Canada.
This month the U.S. Forest Service announced the Emerald Ash Borer had been found east of the Hudson River, the...
April 30, 2012
Bracing for the arrival of the emerald ash borer -- the 'grim, green reaper'
Foot-long in photographs, the dazzling green beetle looks unstoppable. It probably is.
The depiction of an emerald ash borer was not to scale, we were assured by forestry experts who assembled one recent day in central Vermont....
