Shelby Perry, of Montpelier, fills her travel mug with coffee Friday morning at the Capitol Grounds coffee house on State Street in Montpelier reopened for the first time after rebuilding
Amid heated debate over what’s best for forests and people who rely on them one Vermont proposal seeks to balance “forever wild” with active forest management.
As lawmakers and land trusts pursue conservation goals, new trends in the state mean Vermonters are having “a really tough conversation about what our forests are, what they mean to us and what we want from them,” one forester said.