Look UP! Vermont

Emerald ash borer found in New Hampshire.Learn More

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Pancake Breakfast Won't Taste the Same

Keep ALB out of Vermont's sugarbushes!Learn More

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Think Birds Are Cool?

Plant natives!Learn More

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Is Your Community Ready?

Encourage your town to plan ahead for tree pests.Learn More

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Be On the Front Line

Become a Forest Pest First Detector!Learn More

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Dig It For Our Children

Don't let new Knotweed infestations take root!Learn More

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On the ground
State Capitol Native Plant Garden Restoration Project
Once a hillside of goutweed and other invasives, the statehouse now boasts a beautiful native plant garden
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Montshire Museum Treats Invasives and Plants Native Garden
The Montshire Museum creates stunning Woodland Garden using all natives...
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Charlotte Park & Wildlife Refuge
Buckthorn and honeysuckle are reducing regeneration of this forest. Learn how concerned residents are making a difference.
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Join the HIT squad and invest in Hinseburg's ecological future by eliminating pesky invasive plants!
Learn more about how Hinesburg is managing invasives on conserved properties!
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Upper White River Cooperative Weed Management Association
The Upper White River Cooperative Weed Management Association (CWMA) is a collaborative effort....
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Would you like to be a wasp watcher?
Sign up to look for nest sites of a ground-dwelling wasp called Cerceris fumipennis and help in our search for emerald ash borer (EAB).
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Upper Connecticut River Watershed
The Upper Connecticut CISMA began to take form in late 2010 with agencies and individuals in Vermont seeking to collaborate....
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Take A Stand for Hemlock
Take action to protect our state's hemlock trees by scouting for hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) and report suspected sightings.
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Jefferson Town Triangle
Town removes invasive barberry from landscaping
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Hunger Mountain Co-op
Barberry and burning bush have been replaced by wildlife beneficial natives.
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OCISMA
Educating about and managing invasive species within the Ottauquechee watershed. Want to learn more? Email ocisma@vinsweb.org.
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Hildene: The Lincoln Family Home
Hildene staff and volunteers restore wetland buffer...
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Featured Invasive
Multiflora rose invades old fields
Have an inpenetrable thicket of multiflora rose? Learn how to treat it...
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Think bittersweet is pretty? Think again...
People love bittersweet in fall wreathes and decorations....it wreaks havoc on Vermont's trees.
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Phragmites
Look in wetlands, ditches and roadsides for this fast spreading plant....
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Black swallow-wort
This member of the milkweed family is fairly new to Vermont. Monarchs lay their eggs on it but the larvae don't survive. Learn more...
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Purple Loosestrife
All that purple is no good for wildlife. Knock out new infestations right away!
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Hardy Kiwi
This is the "Northeastern Kudzu". Beware of this seductive yet aggressively invasive plant.
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The Asian Longhorned Beetle
The Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) is an invasive insect that feeds on certain species of hardwood trees, eventually killing them.
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Japanese barberry
Japanese barberry destroys Vermont's woodlands
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Honeysuckle is a top invader
Fall is the perfect time to control it. Learn more here...
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Autumn olive
Look for shiny leaves and silver speckled berries tin the fall
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Burning bush may be a favorite fall plant...
But those fuschia leaves are not what we want in our woods!
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Japanese Knotweed
This aggressive plant is found along all of Vermont's major rivers, negatively impacting riparian buffers and fish habitat.
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Emerald Ash Borer
Emerald ash borer (EAB) is an exotic beetle that was discovered in southeastern Michigan near Detroit in the summer of 2002.
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Events

May 18, 2013 - 9:30am
Forest Pest First Detector Training
Vermont needs your help! Join the front lines of defense.
June 8, 2013 - 9:30am
Forest Pest First Detector Training
Vermont needs your help! Join the front line of defense

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Latest News

June 18, 2013

Traps Set to Catch Asian Longhorned Beetles

Some 370 Asian Longhorned Beetle traps are being strategically placed in the lower canopy of selected trees around Westborough, Shrewsbury, Northborough, Marlborough, Sterling, West Boylston and Clinton, state Department of Conservation...

June 14, 2013

Why Every Lake Needs a VIP

A rainbow of brightly hued canoes and kayaks appear beached on the grass as a collection of a dozen or so paddlers apply sunscreen, locate water bottles, and don PFDs. We’re at the Fish and Wildlife Access Area at the mouth of...

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