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For immediate release January 3, 2023 Media contact: Nadine Canter, nadine@newildernesstrust.org, or 802 224-1000 x114 Northeast Wilderness Trust establishes the Blue Mountain Wilderness Sanctuary in Ryegate, Vermont Montpelier, Vermont…Northeast Wilderness Trust has purchased 825 acres in Ryegate, Vermont, to create the Blue Mountain Wilderness Sanctuary. Northeast Wilderness Trust protects more than 71,000 acres of forever-wild conserved land in New England and New York. With this new Sanctuary, the Wilderness Trust now safeguards 15,203 acres as forever-wild in Vermont. Blue Mountain, the...

Photo: Aerial rendering of Colchester Exit 16. Courtesy Photo. by C.B. Hall, Vermont Business Magazine While the Agency of Transportation's list of highway projects this year is prodigious (see below), the agency does a lot more than replace worn pavement and fix bridges on Vermont's state, federal and interstate roadways. AOT and its many partners also reconfigure city streets, maintain state-owned rail corridors, develop bicycle-pedestrian trails, build sidewalks, and perform an abundance of other infrastructure chores. These other projects, often managed by towns and cities, tend to be mo...