1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (980+ words) Every summer, New Hampshire’s seacoast draws visitors in droves, from sunbathing tourists to ravenous greenhead horseflies. Less expected are Atlantic puffins, which are rare in the state year-round and in summertime become so uncommon that a sighting triggers a statewide…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (334+ words) RANDOLPH — Brandiann Cornell and two friends bought 55 baby chickens July 9 from a farm in Chelsea. She housed the chicks in a repurposed compressor shed that was enclosed by a fence on the Route 14 property of the nonprofit organization she heads....

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (978+ words) TUNBRIDGE — In the wake of a new Vermont law designating every fire chief as forest fire warden, some fire chiefs, including in Tunbridge, have opted not to accept the role at this time. Per Act 162 — an emergency management bill that…...

4+ week, 22+ hour ago   (409+ words) A portion of Concord’s pine barrens, the only known home in all of New England for the iridescent, endangered Karner blue butterfly, is changing hands. Nearly seven acres of sandy, lupine-laden property adjacent to an existing conservation easement will transfer…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (735+ words) Brody Allen, of Reading, Vt., Elia “Lula” Gage, of Randolph, and Lydia Dickey, of White River Junction, received Land Steward Awards and $500 from the Vermont Land Trust, a Montpelier-based conservation nonprofit organization. Allen graduated from Woodstock Union High School this…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (829+ words) As climate change pushes wildlife northward, conservation groups and state officials are trying to preserve a shrinking chain of forest corridors in Vermont that scientists say are critical to species migration across the Northeast. Conservationists say the fragmentation of the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (803+ words) New Hampshire is not for want of trees: It’s the second most-forested state, second only to Maine. Such an abundant tree canopy may make it easy to think this is what the state has always looked like. But, as Nikki…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (816+ words) MORRISTOWN, Vt. — Skip Lisle stands atop a beaver dam, grabbing sticks and tossing them over his shoulder. In chest-high waders, he slowly opens a hole in the middle of the dam, and water rushes through. Lisle might just be the…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (795+ words) The Vermont Legislature and Republican Gov. Phil Scott are mired in a fight over how easy it should be to build housing near wetlands. On Thursday, a legislative oversight committee issued a formal rebuke of the Scott administration’s efforts to…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (452+ words) A dispute over bird droppings has found its way onto the ballot in Rye, N.H. After months of pecking and clawing between advocates who want to unlock the windows at Goss Farm barn, where a colony of barn swallows has summered…...