Rob Waite swings a lure overhead as he exercises a falcon at the British School of Falconry in Manchester. The school offers participants a chance to handle Harris hawks. For a video, visit benningtonbanner.com.
10/24/2009
Album ID: 870169
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Great Blue Heron
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A great blue heron takes flight Tuesday off Holy Smoke Road in Shaftsbury.
9/15/2009
Album ID: 837341
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Batten Kill work
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Dean Catellier positions a boulder in the Batten Kill as part of a trout habitat restoration project Wednesday.The creation of "rock vortexes" slows the current, allowing fish to rest and catch insects, according to Chris Alexopoulos of the U.S. Forest Service. This is the fourth year local, state and federal agencies are cooperating on the project.
9/9/2009
Album ID: 832900
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Old growth
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The "matriarch" of the Canfield-Fisher Memorial Pines stands broken in two in Arlington. The old-growth forest there, donated by the Canfield, Fisher and Scott families, is designated a natural landmark.
9/2/2009
Album ID: 828293
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Horticulture Project
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Keith Bradt, a participant in the local Youth Horticulture Project, finishes watering a garden Thursday at the Community College of Vermont in Bennington. A creation of the Tutorial Center, the project provides jobs while teaching employment and life skills.
8/20/2009
Album ID: 819434
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Red clover
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A moth alights on a clover flower Tuesday in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. Vermont named the red clover its state flower in 1895. The state insect is the Western honey bee, a frequent visitor to clover.
7/14/2009
Album ID: 796455
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Conservation Corps
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Ian Tally, left, and Chris Perkins, members of the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps, improve the Linda Tilgner Nature Trail at Shaftsbury's Howard Park.
7/7/2009
Album ID: 792481
Photos by Peter Crabtree
E-Money and friends
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A group of Long Trail hikers from Lowell, Mass., make their way to the Manchester post office to pick up provisions Thursday. The men, whose trail names are E-Money, Professor, Chewbacca, Sneakers and Skidmark, said they had been hiking for five days.
6/4/2009
Album ID: 770185
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Garlic mustard
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Nature Conservancy volunteers Kathy Foutch and Mundi Smithers pick garlic mustard on Quarry Hill in North Pownal. The invasive plant threatens rare species there.
5/21/2009
Album ID: 759374
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Canada goose
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A Canada goose drifts in a pond at the Willam H. Morse State Airport in Bennington. The Canada goose is the most widely distributed goose in North America, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Canada goose populations in urban areas have been increasing during the past 50 years and are currently a problem in more than 100 urban areas in 37 states, where their populations range in size from several hundred to more than 27,000.
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