Press Release

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is offering a New Instructor Training Course for people interested in volunteering to teach Hunter Education in Vermont.

A hunting license is required, and a waterfowl hunter 16 or older must carry current federal and Vermont duck stamps.

If you or someone you know would like to go hunting this fall but have never taken a hunter education course, this is the time to act.

Hikers and rock climbers can return to Vermont cliffs starting August 1, now that peregrine falcon nesting season has ended.

New hunters looking for mentorship and a community to learn with are invited to the department’s third annual Learn to Hunt series.

A drawing to award hunting permits will be held Friday, September 2, at 12:00 Noon at the Fish and Wildlife Department office at 111 West Street, Essex Junction

Violations of Title 10 V.S.A. §4708, Interfering with a Hunter

When Alyssa Bennett and her team went out to trap bats here earlier this month, they set up near three sets of bat boxes, figuring they’d mostly attract little brown bats and maybe a female Indiana bat if they were lucky. What they discovered from that evening’s work led to quite a surprise.

The drawing is done by a random sort of applications that were submitted by the June 22 deadline

Coexisting with our healthy bear population requires all Vermonters to remove potential sources of conflict before problems start