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Join Vermont State Parks for
First Day Hikes
Start the new year on the right foot with a
hike in a Vermont state park. On January 1,
2018, everyone is invited to join a free,
guided, family-friendly hike taking place at
many state parks and forests across Vermont.
Hikes will be led by professional guides and
outdoor educators eager to share their knowledge
and love of Vermont’s outdoors. Don’t
need a guide? No matter where you live in
Vermont, a state park or state forest is always
close by, and you can still get outside to enjoy
it. State park entry is free on New Year’s Day
(and all winter long). You’ll discover a whole
new world in winter.
This year, a First Day BIKE option is available
at Seyon Lodge State Park. Bring your
fat bike and helmet for this guided ride! If
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also be available (but please still bring your
helmet). See below for more details.
Please dress for the weather and bring
snowshoes if the snow is deep. Please also
bring beverages and snacks. Dogs are welcome
on leash unless otherwise noted. You
don’t need to pre-register, just show up! To
check the status of the hikes, call our First
Day Hikes Hotline at 802-249-1230. Updated
messages will be posted to the Hotline on
December 31st and January 1st.
Check out our website at http://bit.ly/
VTFirstDayHikes2018 and our Facebook and
Twitter feeds for more information and more
hikes as they are added.
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Vermont Maple Conferences Planned for 2 Locations
Vermont’s maple producers will have an
opportunity to hear the latest from industry
and university maple experts on maple production,
marketing and business management,
sugarbush health and climate and maple
regulations at the 2018 Vermont Maple
Conference, planned for two locations.
The annual conference, a collaboration of
University of Vermont (UVM) Extension and
the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers Association
(VMSMA), will be held Jan. 20 at the School
for International Training Graduate Institute
in Brattleboro (1 Kipling Road) and Jan. 27 at
Lamoille Union Middle School, Hyde Park
(736 VT Rte. 15). Registration opens at 7:30
a.m. with the program getting underway
promptly at 8:15 a.m.
The event is open to producers with any
size operation as well as those interested in
becoming a sugarmaker. Registration is $10
for VMSMA members, $40 for non-members
and $5 for students. Lunch costs an extra
$15.
To register go to www.vermontmaple.org/
maple-conferences. Contact Amanda Voyer at
(802) 858-9444 by Jan. 2 if requiring a disability-related
accommodation to participate.
The opening session includes brief presentations
on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
Asian Longhorned Beetle Eradication
Program in Worcester, Massachusetts, and
how the Food Safety Modernization Act will
affect sugarmakers. David Hall, a director of
the Federation of Quebec Maple Producers,
will provide a brief market summary. All
three speakers will present full workshop sessions
on their topic later in the day.
Producers may choose from 23 different
concurrent workshops throughout the daylong
conference. Several sessions will feature
the UVM Proctor Maple Research Center’s
research including reverse osmosis and syrup
flavor and quality, sustainable tapping guidelines
and biological and environmental control
of sap flow and sugar. Panel discussions
will explore the benefits and liabilities of
opening sugarhouse to the public and the state
of the maple market and the industry.
A number of workshops will focus on the
business side of maple from understanding
the cost of production to digital marketing.
Other topics include Vermont wetland rules
and maple operations; sugarbush management;
a forest tent caterpillar update; the
Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and
Markets’ best management practices for
maple operations; and sugar maple risk mapping;
among other topics.
Program details can be found in the
December 2017 “Maple Mainline” at http://
go.uvm.edu/extension-maple.
West Windsor Volunteer Fire Department
“Sixty Years of Answering the Call”
When they are not putting out fires and
saving lives, the West Windsor Volunteer Fire
Department is hanging lights on the town
Christmas trees, delivering Santa in a fire
engine to a town-wide carol sing or helping to
keep safe the two-day Independence Day
celebrations in town.
Could we possibly ask more from this
dedicated group? Yes! Gentlemen and ladies,
start your engines! Shine up those fire engines
and parade them proudly down Brownsville
Hartland Road on the Fourth of July 2018
because we will be celebrating our Fire
Department’s 60th year of answering the
call!
The Brownsville Independence Day
Celebration Committee has evolved. It has
grown and learned from past leaders with
great appreciation. Representatives from
many organizations and groups in town were
invited to a feasibility meeting last August.
The group of approximately 20 volunteers
explored what they thought the town might
hope for regarding the 2018 Independence
Day activities and what the realistic volunteer
community involvement might be.
The end result is a group willing to recruit
volunteers and lead. The committee is the
Brownsville Independence Day Celebration
Committee and consists of 4 main committees
and multiple sub-committees. In all, this
sizeable group has committed to create a
memorable Independence Day Celebration in
Brownsville for residents and visitors alike.
However, they need your help.
The IDC Committee is pleased to announce
the launch of the Independence Day
Celebration Facebook and GoFundMe pages.
https://www.facebook.com/
IndependenceDayBrownsville/
https://www.gofundme.com/july-3rd-4thcelebration
Checks made payable to the Brownsville
IDC can be sent to Brownsville Independence
Day Celebration, PO Box 37, Brownsville,
Vermont 05037
So thank you in advance for your donation
and we look forward to honoring our volunteer
fire department and seeing you in
Brownsville on July 3rd & 4th, 2018! Contact
any member of the Brownsville Independence
Celebration Steering Committee (IDC) if you
have questions or would like to become a
volunteer at any level.
Karen Diop, Chair, IDC July 4th Committee,
kkdvermont@gmail.com; Bill Ley, Chair,
IDC July 3rd Committee, parrishill@comcast.net;
Annalise Ennis, Chair, IDC Fund
Raising, Committee, minniemousemom27@
gmail.com; Polly Ouelette,
Treasurer, Independence Day Committee,
pollyo@myfairpoint.net; Linda Ley, Chair,
IDC Marketing Committee, eys@parrishillfarm.com
Winner of VT’s Lifetime Hunting &
Fishing License Lottery Announced
William Pinney, 65, of Warren, Vermont, is
the lucky winner of the 2017 Vermont
Lifetime Hunting and Fishing License Lottery.
With his lifetime license, Pinney will be
entitled to hunt and fish for free for life. He
was drawn as the winner from among 10,650
lottery tickets purchased in 2017.
“This was my second year of deer hunting,”
said Pinney. “I love hunting in Vermont.
I didn’t get a deer yet, but I had a great
time.”
The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department
holds the drawing annually and presents a
lifetime hunting and fishing license to the
winner.
“The Lifetime License Lottery gives anyone,
resident or nonresident, an opportunity
to win a Vermont hunting and fishing license
that is valid for the recipient’s lifetime,” said
Fish & Wildlife Commissioner Louis Porter.
“Even if you don’t win the license, by applying,
you know you have contributed to fish
and wildlife conservation in Vermont.”
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This year’s sales of the $2.00 tickets
brought $21,300 to the Vermont Fish &
Wildlife Department. These state dollars can
be leveraged with federal funds to produce
$85,300 to support the department’s mission
to conserve fish, wildlife, plants and their
habitats for the people of Vermont.
“These funds help us to manage the state’s
sportfish and game animals, protect threatened
and endangered species, and conserve
important habitat for wildlife,” said Porter.
Hunters and anglers can enter Vermont’s
License of a Lifetime Lottery by adding the
$2.00 entry fee when they buy their license on
the Fish & Wildlife Department website at
vtfishandwildlife.com. They can also enter by
applying at locations statewide wherever
Vermont hunting and fishing licenses are
sold, or with a printable application also
available on the department website. There is
no limit on the number of times someone may
enter during the year.