Press Release

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and Audubon Vermont are urging Vermonters to prepare their bird feeders to put up around December 1, the date recommended by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department to avoid attracting bears.

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department in conjunction with the New England Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and Rooted in Vermont, a program of the Vermont Farm to Plate Network, is hosting Field to Fork Stories from the Green Mountains: a hunting, fishing and foraging storytelling event at Zero Gravity Brewery in Burlington on December

The 2020 Vermont Watershed Grants Program is now accepting applications for projects that protect, restore and enhance the state's lakes, streams, rivers and ponds, including projects to help Vermonters understand and enjoy these treasures. Applications are due no later than Friday February 7, 2020.

On January 1, 2020 new baitfish regulations will go into effect aimed at providing anglers with additional opportunities to use and harvest baitfish.

Future planning is under review for how the Bill Sladyk Wildlife Management Area, Black Turn Brook State Forest and Averill Mountain Wildlife Management Area

Hunters who get a deer during the November 16 – December 1 rifle season are asked to provide an incisor tooth from their deer when they go to a reporting station.

Youth deer hunting weekend helps ensure that young hunters get the quality training they need for lifelong participation,

Vermont Fish and Wildlife is reminding hunters to wear fluorescent hunter orange.

Two young men were apprehended for poaching by police and State Game Wardens early Sunday morning after a caller noticed suspicious activity near the Abbey Pond trailhead

New Edition of Wetland, Woodland Wildland: A Guide to the Natural Communities of Vermont Available Soon