News Archive
Calling all Paddlers ~ Please send in your surveys!
LCC and the University of Vermont are collaborating on a recreational study for the Lake Champlain Paddlers Trail. Surveys were sent this summer to all LCC members who receive our annual Paddlers’ Trail guidebook. Thanks to...
Lake Champlain Algae
LCC volunteers have been hard at work collecting water samples to identify algae blooms around Lake Champlain. This summer has been relatively quiet. The thick pervasive bloom often seen in the lake’s...
Lake Champlain: A Natural History On Tour
LCC Staff Scientist Mike Winslow has been on the road this summer sharing stories of Lake Champlain and promoting LCC’s new book. In his presentations Mike provides an overview of the natural history of Lake Champlain and...
Loon Monitoring on the Lake
If you see lights out on Lake Champlain in the next few weeks it’s probably not UFOs. The Adirondack Cooperative Loon Program will be conducting night time surveys of loons on Lake Champlain. Researchers have found that going out...
Missisquoi River Muskie Restoration Efforts
The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department gave its recently-established muskellunge restoration effort a boost in August when it stocked 250 four-month old muskellunge in the Missisquoi River Delta. The fish were donated by the New...
Lake Look ~ The Chazy Reef
Imagine sitting in a lounge chair with your feet in the water looking out over a tropical sea. The sun blazes away and the reefs around you teem with life. There was a time, nearly half a billion years ago, when the area we now...
Nature Note: Dragonflies and Damselflies
Their names can evoke spine-chilling fear - bog haunter, pond hawk, shadow dragon, widow skimmer - or elfin magic - jewel wing, aurora dancer, sedge sprite. They are the subject of old wives tales about sewn lips of misbehaved...
