The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board will hold public hearings on deer and moose management for 2023 on March 20, 23 and 24. The hearings will include results of Vermont’s 2022 deer seasons and prospects for …
If you or someone you know would like to go turkey hunting this spring, but they have never taken a hunter education course, this is the time to act. Vermont’s volunteer hunter education instructors are now holding a limited number of courses throughout …
A public hearing on deer and moose management announced earlier by the Fish and Wildlife Department for March 21 at Burr & Burton Academy has been rescheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Friday, March 24 at Manchester Community Library. The Vermont Fish and …
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board will hold public hearings on deer and moose management for 2023 on March 20, 21 and 23. The hearings will include results of Vermont’s 2022 deer seasons and prospects for …
Public hearings on the status of migratory game bird populations and proposed 2023 migratory game bird hunting seasons for the interior zone of Vermont and Lake Champlain zone in New York and Vermont will be held Tuesday, March 14 and Thursday, March 16. …
While the current warm weather continues, the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is extending its advisory to stay off the ice on Lake Champlain. On inland waterbodies that may have better ice conditions at present—and after cold weather returns, on Lake …
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is pleased to announce that game warden trainees Louis Daversa, Noelle Kline, and John Truong were promoted to full game warden on Monday, February 13, 2023. The promotion came after wardens Daversa, Kline, and …
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is advising the public to stay off the ice on Lake Champlain due to unsafe conditions, and to exercise caution on other bodies of water. This advisory follows the death of an angler who fell through the ice in Grand …
Vermont Fish and Wildlife today announced that three fish caught in 2022 were certified as new state records. In February, Swanton angler Matt Gingras landed a new Vermont record burbot while fishing on northern Lake Champlain in the West Swanton area. …
Vermont’s Nongame Wildlife Fund is essential to the conservation and restoration of some of Vermont’s most at-risk wildlife, like the lake sturgeon and Northern long-eared bat. Thanks to a checkoff option on the Vermont state income tax form, donating to …
On Saturday, January 21, the Vermont Warden Service responded to a snowmobile crash in Waterbury. Game wardens responded to the scene along with Stowe Rescue, Stowe Mountain Rescue, and the Stowe Police Department. An investigation of the crash …
If you are 12 to 14 years old and want to learn about Vermont's wildlife and gain outdoor skills, consider attending one of the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department's Green Mountain Conservation Camps this summer. If you are a GMCC alum,16 or …
Landis Menard, 25, of Fairfield, VT is the lucky winner of the 2022 Vermont Lifetime Hunting and Fishing License Lottery. Mr. Menard will be entitled to hunt and fish in Vermont for free for the rest of his life. He was drawn as the winner from among 18, …
Vermont’s state-wide Free Ice Fishing Day is Saturday, January 28, 2023. Free Ice Fishing Day is held annually on the last Saturday in January. The day is geared toward giving new ice anglers an opportunity to try ice fishing before purchasing equipment, …
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets will host a workshop for consulting foresters to learn about treating invasive plants with cost-share funding on Thursday, February 16, from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m …
The final number of deer taken in Vermont’s 2022 hunting seasons will not be available for a few more weeks, but the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department says the final tally will be a little over 17,400 deer. Those deer will provide approximately 3.5 …
The annual Yankee Sportsman’s Classic show will be held January 20, 21 and 22 at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction, and the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is inviting you to visit their exhibits and attend their seminars at the show. “We …
MONTPELIER, Vt. – With the start of the new year, many Vermonters are preparing for one of the state’s most popular winter pastimes: ice fishing. “If you’re looking for a fun, easy way to get outdoors with friends and family this winter, ice fishing is …
With the start of the new year, many Vermonters are preparing for one of the state’s most popular winter pastimes: ice fishing. “If you’re looking for a fun, easy way to get outdoors with friends and family this winter, ice fishing is hard to top,” said …
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is reminding the public to take precautions around wild birds, as highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) continues to circulate in the state. Backyard flocks of domestic birds in Caledonia and Lamoille Counties …
