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As lawmakers and land trusts pursue conservation goals, new trends in the state mean Vermonters are having “a really tough conversation about what our forests are, what they mean to us and what we want from them,” one forester said.

Environmental advocates across the state head into this year’s legislative session with the goal of updating Act 250 — Vermont’s land use and development law — to protect one of

Advocates agree that meeting the needs of Vermont’s forests are crucial to meeting the state’s goals in combating climate change.

As we climbed over and through the downfall, I couldn’t help but rejoice. Nature was taking care of itself. A wealth of new habitat had been created overnight; it was a housing boom for plants and animals.

The U.S. Forest Service hasn’t yet made a formal proposal for the clear-cutting, but in preliminary documents for the project, officials suggest that between 4,720 and 10,900 acres of trees in the forest could be cut down.

Zack Porter, executive director of Standing Trees, said its lawsuit against the state will move forward while state officials begin a rulemaking process.

Public land comprises 8% of Vermont, according to the complaint, and the state is responsible for maintaining that land for multiple goals.

An environmental group is following through on its threat to sue the state to block the logging of thousands of acres of mature forest in...

There is no demonstrated need for a profit-making lodging in the Silver Lake area, which is located within the Green Mountain National Forest’s Moosalamoo National Recreation Area.

Despite its trendy greenwashed label, the success of lumber and wood products in storing carbon fails miserably to measure up to what living trees do.