"Forestry technician Grace Smith has spent the spring working 10-hour days, planting trees in the woods of the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge in Vermont."
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With just 10 people per square mile, Vermont's Essex County is the state's most thinly populated region. Within the area's Silvio O. Conte National Fish.
Foresters responding to climate change are experimenting with planting trees in Vermont that typically are found further south. They hope the trees will survive hotter and drier conditions to come.