NEWPORT The MAC Center for the Arts will host a new exhibit titled "Ecosystem Services Through an Artist’s Eye," which is a collaborative event with the Orleans County Natural Resources Conservation District and the Memphremagog Watershed Association. The show will be open to the public from
EAST CHARLESTON The NorthWoods Stewardship Center and the Memphremagog Watershed Association (MWA) have each been awarded grant funding through the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department to improve stream habitat restoration and public water access in the Memphremagog watershed.
The NorthWoods Stewardship Center received $290,991 in grant funding to be apportioned to restoration, accessibility, enhancement, and seed sourcing projects in the Memphremagog Watershed over a two-year period.
“This continued grant funding allows us to build on the outreach and restoration work that we started last year in the Willoughby, Barton, and Black River watersheds,” said NorthWoods Conservation Science Director Meghann Carter. “In addition, we are now funded to do 15 weeks of project implementation work each year, with a focus on increasing accessibility, water quality, and wildlife habitat of state-owned properties through a variety of projects including riparian buffer planting, streambank