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Only half Ireland’s rivers, lakes and estuaries are currently healthy

Forestry, Project Woodland, forestry licencing, afforestation

Vermont farmer’s septic waste fertilizing raises a stink "> A corn field where farmer Mark Boyden and septic company operator Lawrence Young had been spreading septage is seen in Cambridge, Vt., on Tuesday, July 27, 2021. Septage is no longer being spread on the field due to its proximity to the Lamoille River and to neighboring homes. (VtDigger - Glenn Russell) VtDigger photograph — GLENN RUSSELL "> A corn field where farmer Mark Boyden and septic company operator Lawrence Young had been s...

On a clear day at Boyden Farms in Cambridge, in a field abutting the Lamoille River, a truck belonging to Working Dog Septic drove out to spread manure over a fallow section of the land. The truck stopped briefly by a red container of lime. When the tank was opened and the lime mixed into the liquid waste, a wave of excrement smell, bright and notable but not overwhelming, wafted back on the wind before subsiding as the tank was closed. The truck then began its spreading, casting brown waves as...

Despite vocal opposition from both town officials and citizens, the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation approved a permit last week to let Working Dog Septic spread septic waste on a

Minister Hackett’s Forestry Policy Group meets for fourth time • Backlog being addressed • Funding for Woodland Support Projects imminent • Project Management specialist appointed The fourth meeting of the national Forestry Policy Group took place today. Chaired by the Minister of State for Land Use and Biodiversity, Senator Pippa Hackett, the meeting was convened to monitor progress on the implementation of Project Woodland, which she es...