Safety

Tickborne illnesses are most frequently transmitted between early spring and late fall since ticks are most active during warm months.

Be tick smart and follow these four recommendations to decrease your risk of infection.

To date, Chronic Wasting Disease has not been detected in any deer populations within Vermont.

What Is Canine Distemper?

Canine distemper is a highly contagious viral disease of wild and domestic carnivores.  The virus is widespread and has a broad host range among North American carnivores including the mink, striped skunks, fishers, red and gray fox, raccoons, coyotes, and weasels.  Mortality is higher in juveniles than adults.

Bats in the attic, bears in the beehives, deer eating the beans, raccoons in the garbage: the list of wildlife problems goes on.

Many wildlife species can cause conflicts under certain circumstances. Here are some resources to help resolve human-wildlife conflicts.

The goal of wildlife rehabilitation is to release injured and orphaned wildlife safely back into the wild.

Bear-resistant trash containers are a smart investment to help alleviate some conflicts with black bears.

Seeing a black bear can be an exciting, and for some people, a nerve-wracking event.

These recommendations are meant to be general and cover the basic types of human-bear interactions that can occur. Encounters vary greatly, and all situations are different.

Seeing black bears in their natural surroundings is exciting. But when bears venture into human territory, problems can occur and bears often pay the price.