January 2024

March 2024


  • Time Flies Tying Flies
  • Introduction to Decoy Carving
  • THe Lady Luck Buck
  • Scouting for Spring Turkey Season is an All-Year Long Adventure
  • Trusting Your Instinct
  • The Hard Way
  • My First Deer
  • Lake Champlain Mngmnt Coop. to Hold ‘State of the Lake Fisheries
  • Public Hearnings on Deer & Moose in March
  • One New Fish Record Est.  in Vt in 2023
  • Vt Habitat Stamp Raises $656,000 for Conserv.
  • Rare Bird That Sparked Excitement & Concern Died of Natural Causes According to Lab
  • Game Wardens Respond  to Waterbury Snowmobile Crash
  • Our Heritage Matters
  • Grn Mtn Conserv. Camp Registration is Open
  • Fried Turkey Fingers
  • Report From Vt Tradition Coalition
  • Bears are Becoming Active Earlier in the Spring, Vters Need to Take Steps Now to Prevent Bear Conflicts
  • New High-Resolution Data Helps Identify Habitat Connections for Conservation
  • Learn to Hunt Wild Turkeys with VF&W
  • Trap Talk ~~ Memories
  • Training Course Offered for New Hunter Educ. Instructors
  • Waterfowl Season Public Hearings in March 13
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January 2024

January 2024


  • Vt 2024 Hunting & Fishing Licenses & Lawbooks Avail
  • New Regs for Trapping Come Into Effect 1/1/24
  • A Well Rounded Season
  • Trap Talk
  • Vt’s Preliminary Report on 2023 Deer Season
  • Athens Man Pleads Guilty to Fed & State Charges
  • Be Sure to Visit VT F&WL at the Yankee Show, Jan 19-21
  • 2023 Youth & Novice Turkey Weekend (Pictures)
  • Bear & Dear Hunting Pictures
  • Calling Contest
  • I Can’t Wait to Do That Again
  • Ice Fishing Safety for Inconsistent Ice Conditions
  • VT’s 2024 Trapping Reg & App. for Permit to Hunt Coyotes with Dogs are on VTF&W’s Website
  • New Due Date for Annual Trapper Reports
  • VT’s Free Ice Fishing Day is Jan 27
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November 2023

November 2023


  • Hunters Asked to Help Collect Deer Teeth
  • Utter Disbelief
  • Vt F&WL 2024 Calendar
  • New Bear Population Estimate Based on 2022 Data Avail.
  • Trap Talk
  • VF&WL Urges Hunters to Help Deer Healthy
  • F&WL Asks Deer Hunters to Report Wildlife Sightings
  • Leashed Tracking Dogs for Recovery of Game
  • My First Bear
  • Vt’s ‘Operation Game Thief’ Helps Catach Poachers
  • VTF&W Website Helps with Learning How to Process Deer
  • Rabbit Hunters Be Aware
  • Regulated Trapping Seasons Opened Oct 28
  • Shaley Did It!
  • Vt Hunters Can Report Turkeys and Some Deer Online
  • Attention Vt Sportsmen
  • Tree Stand Safety Tips for Hunters
  • How Come They Are So Lucky
  • Legacy Weapons
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September 2023

September 2023


  • Vt’s Hunting Season for Gray Squirrels Opens Sept 1
  • Vt Youth Waterfowl Hunting Sept. 23-24
  • Fall Turkey Hunting !!!
  • Vt’s Resident Canada Goose Season, Sept 1-25
  • Vt Hunter Education Courses Are Offered Now
  • Tangled Up In Blues
  • Be Alert to Avoid Moose on the Highway Trap Talk
  • Leave Boulders and Logs in Rivers to Increase Flood Res- ilience and Help Fish Poppulations Impacted by the July Flood
  • Living with Wildlife: Bats in Your House?
  • Enjoy Dead Creek Wildlife Day on Oct 7
  • Hunters Reminded of Rules on Importing Deer, Elk
  • Peregrine Falcon Nesting Season Complete
  • Success in an Unfamiliar Place
  • Hunters Urged to Wear Orange
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July 2023

July 2023


  • Fish with a Warden Session Offered
  • Bear Activity in So. Burl. Raises Concerns for Dev. Areas
  • Game Wardens & State Police Urge Vters to Boat Safely
  • Electric Fencing Offers Protection Against Chicken Predation
  • Vt’s Migratory Game Bird Seasons Are Announced
  • Putting in the Hours
  • Junior Waterfowl Hunter Training Program
  • Muzzleloader Antlerless Deer Permit Applications Avail.
  • Protect Nesting Loons and Loon Chicks
  • Trap Talk
  • Vt Turkey Brood Survey Starts July 1
  • Turkey Season 2023 Recap
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January 2023

May 2023


Deer Ages Available

Winners Announced for K-12 Student Fish Art Contest

Turkey Hunting Safety Tips from VTF&W

Vt Master Angler Program 2022 Annual Report

But First, Habitat

Green Mtn Conservation Camp ‘Work-cation’

Vt Wildlife Course for Educators July 16-21

Sometimes Not Roosted is Roasted

Vt Habitat Stamp Raises $450,000 for Conservative in Fiscal Year 2022

Vt’s Trophy Trout Stocking

Young Wildlife Belong in the Wild

Turkey Road Trip

Trout Stocking to Resume at Goshen Dam This Spring

Illegal Deer Shooting in Pomfret

“Shots” of the SEASON

Fried Turkey Fingers

Turtles Must be Left in the Wild

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January 2023

March 2023


Training Course Offered for New Hunter Education Instructors

Lake Champlain Management Cooperative to Hold State of the Lake

   Meeting

Waterfowl Season Public Hearings

Vt Hunter Education Courses Starting in March

3 Game Warden Trainees Promoted to Full Game Warden

VTers Encouraged to Support Threatened & Endangered Species

Planning Your Out of State Turkey Hunts

Save the date

3 Record-Setting Fish Caught in VT in 2022

Governor Appoints New F&WL Board Member

Game Wardens Respond to Waterbury Snowmobile Crash

Lake Champ.Mngmnt Coop - further Stocking Reduct.for Lake Trout

Public Hearings on Deer & Moose

Surviving the Doldrums

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January 2023

January 2023


Chittenden Reservoir WalleyeFishing Restrictions Revised

Vermonters Urged to Take Steps to Prevent Spread of Avian Influenza

Vt 2023 Hunting and Fishing Licenses and Lawbooks Available

Ice Fishing Info

Ice Fishing Locations

Vt F&W Grants Available to Improve Shooting Ranges

Hammond Cove & West Mountain Shooting Ranges Closing for the     

      Winter

Treating Invasive Plants Workshop for Consulting  Foresters

Shifting Baselines

Landis Menard of Fairfield, VT Wins Vermont’s Lifetime

Trap Talk

Fundamentals for Safe and Enjoyable Ice Fishing

Watershed Grant Program Now Accepting Applications

December is the Start of Bird Feeding Season

What a Difference A Year Can Make

Vermont’s Free Ice Fishing Day & Festival to be Held at Silver Lake State        Park in Celebration   

DOUBLING UP

Hammond Cove & West Mountain Shooting

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September 2022

November 2022


Bats Are on the Move

Additional Details Released on November 2 Bear Attack

Vt F&W’s 2023 Calendar Is Available

Vt’s Regular Deer Season Starts Saturday, Nov 12

Hunters Urged to Wear Orange

VT F&W Urges Hunters to Help Keep Deer Healthy

F&W Asks Deer Hunters to Report Wildlife Sightings

Fall Foods Less Abundant for Wildlife

Hunters Asked to Collect Deer Teeth

Losing Friends

Unallocataed Annterless Permits Available

Give Goose a Try!

Shots of the Season

Trapline Talk

The Shots You Don’t Take

Road Improvement Project Begins at Bill Sladyk Wildlife Mngmnt Area

My Favorite Time

Squirrel Pot Pie Recipe

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September 2022

September 2022


Letter on Antis

Bear Conflicts are Escalating in VT, F&WL Dept Urges  Proactive 

    Coexistence Steps

Vt’s Resident Canada Goose Season Sept 1-25

Vt’s Hunting Season for Gray Squirrels Opens Sept 1

Annual Rabies Bait Drop to Begin

New Warden Service Division Director Announced

Seeing the Trees and Through the Forest

Trapline Talk

Warning Shot

Vt Youth Waterfowl Hunting September 24-25

Fall for Turkey

Be Alert to Avoid Moose on the Highway

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July 2022

July 2022


Safely Co-existing with Black Bears

Elecric Fencing Offers Protection  Against Chicken Predation

Avian Influenza Continues to Spread in Vt’s Wild Birds

Federally Threatened Orchid Discovered in VT

Fires & Swimming are Prohibited at Fishing Access Areas

Game Warden Responds to Coyote Attack in Panton

Gov. Appoints 3 New F&WL  Board Members

Help Conserve 344 Acres

New Coyote Hunting Laws

Muzzleloader Anterless Deer Permit Appl. Avail.

Do Not Disturb Spawning  Sea Lamprey

New Streambank Management Area Maps

Legislative Update

Passing It Forward

Protect Nesting Looks

Quebec & VT Fishing Regulation on Lake Memphremagog Are Now Compatible

Fish with a Warden Sessions

Turtles on the Roadway

Trap Line Talk

VT Turkey Brook Survey 7/1

Bobcat Positive for Rabies

Junior Waterfowl Hunter  Training Program

Get the Funk Out of Here!!

Calling Turkeys Competition

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May 2022

May 2022


Hammond Cove Shooting Range Opened April 1

Hunter Educ. Program Meets Goal of Zero Hunting-Related Shooting Injuries in 2021

Evaluating a New Rainbow Trout Strain for VT

Young Wildlife Belong in the Wild

Green Mtn Conservation Camp ‘Work-caton’ Weekends

VT Mastser Angler Program 2021 Annual Repot

VT Allocates Moose Hunting Permits for 2022

Fawns are Arriving; Leave Them Alone Urges F&W

Some Cliff Tops & Overlooks to Protect Nesting Peregrines

VT Walleye Fishing Season Opens Sat., May 7

Smoke Show, Turkey Hunting With Black Powder

Legislative Update

VT Wildlife Course for Educ.

VT’s Spring Turkey Hunting Starts Soon

Turkeys are Stupid and Easy to Kill

Increased Trout Stocking for Anglers

Trap Line Talk

Turkey Tripping

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March 2022

March 2022


Bright Snowmobile Crash

Andrew Glynn of VA Wins Vt’s Lifetime Hunting & Fishing License Lottery

2 Minors Rescued After ATV Goes Through Lake  Memphremagog Ice

Remove Ice Shanties

Public Hearings on Deer & Moose

Bald Eagle Removed from State Endangered & Threatened

Vt Trout Unlimited Celebrates 10th Anniv.of Fly Fishing Summer Camp

First Buck

Gov Appoints 2 New F&WL

VTF&W Says Bears Cecoming Active-Time to Take Down Bird Feeders!

Recovered Projectiles

Legislative Update

Jeremy Schmid is Vt’s Warden of the Year

It’s About That Time Again

Trapline Talk

Peacham Snowmobile Crash

Moose Hunt Proposed to Improve Moose Health

Lewis Snowmobile Crash

Remember Nongame Wildlife Tax Checkoff

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January 2022

January 2022


Are You Insane?

2022 Hunting, Fishing, Trapping Licenses Available Online

Ice Fishing Clinics Start Jan 7

My 2021 Deer Season

New Fishing Regulation Begin Jan 1, 2022

Sandplain Foret Restoration to Begin @ Sandplain

My Knife

2 For the Price of 1

Legislative Update

2 Groton Residents Guilty of Interfering with Hunters

Gallary

Vt’s Preliminary Report on 2021 Deer Seasons

Winter Wildlife Ecology & Forest Management

F&W’s 2022 Conservation Camp Registration Open

December is the Start of Bird Feeding Season

Nesting Loons Have a Record Year

Vt F&W Gift Certificates

The Trapline

VF&W’s Groundbreaking Map Project Wins $100,000 Grant for Climate Change

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November 2021

November 2021


Trapline Talk

Our Newfoundland Adventure

F&WL Asks Deer Hunters to Report Wildlife Sightings

Vt Regular Deer Season Starts Sat. Nov 13

Eat More Fast Food

Hunters Asked to Help Collect Deer Teeth

Dog Gone Turkey

Legislative Update

VT F&WL Confirms Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease in Rut.Cty Deer

VT Hunters Help Meet Moose Population Mgmt Goal

My First Deer

Most Recent Information

My First Deer

Scats & Tracks, a Virtual Offering for Elementary School Students

Fall Foods Abundant for Wildlife

My Three Year Quest

Bats Are on the Move, With a Reputaton to Improve

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July 2021

September 2021


Tree Stand Safety

Enjoy Dead Creek Wildlife Day

25th Annual Rabies Bait Drop Kick Off

Controlled Waterfowl Hunt Apps are Available

Let’s Go Fishing Prog. Seeks Instructors

Hunters Reminded of Rules on Importing Deer, Elk

Reuniting with an Old Friend

Flaming Gorge Outdoor Recreat. Area, Worth the Trip!

Public Invited to Learn About Forest Management

Legislative Update

Perefrine Falcon Nesting Season Complete

The Harder I Work

Open Range Days with Range Stewards at Shotting Ranges

Trapline Talk

Trapping 2020-21

Vt Bear Hunting Starts in September

VT Archery Deer Season Starts Oct 1

VT Youth Waterfowl Hunting

Be Alert to Avoid Moose

VT’s Resident Canadian Goose Season

The Pitman-Robertson Prog.

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July 2021

July 2021


Boaters Rescued

Protect Grassland Birds

Protect Grassland Birds by Mowing Later

Fires Prohibited @ Fishing Access Areas

Wildlife Course for Educators Still has a Few Openings

Fawns are Arriving; Leave them Alone Urges F&W

How to Plant With Success

Multi-Month F&WL Investigation Leads to 7 Arrests

Little Fish Big Bite

June Longbeard, Finally!!

Protect Nesting Loons & Loon Chicks

VT Moose Hunt Application Deadline, June 30

Fishing Derby Pictures

Legislative Update with Evan Hughes

Junior Waterfowl Hunter Training Program

Muzzleloader Anterless Deer Permits Are Still Available

Wardens Arrest Middlebury Man on Multiple Charges

Turtles Must be Left in the Wild

Pollinators in Peril

VT Turkey Brood Survey Starts July 1

Family, Friends and Fishing

Fishing Access Areas Not Safe for Swimming

Migratory Bird Hunting

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March 2021

May 2021


Talking to Gobblers

Vt Master Angler Program

Ramblings of a Traveling Turkey Hunter

Vermont Outdoors Adds Features to VTF&W Mobile App

VTF&W to Hold Electronic Deer Hearings in May

Hunt Safely This Turkey Season

Legislative Update with Evan Hughes

‘Let’s Go Fishing’ Program Seeks Instructors

VT Allocates Moose Hunting Permits for 2021

VTF&W Urges Sustainable Harvesting of Wild Plants

It’s an Excellent Time to Use a Worm and Relax

A Face Only a Mother Could Love

Successful VT Hunters Can Report Their Turkey Online or at a Reporting Station

Young Wildlife Belong in the Wild

Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease May Threaten VT’s Rabbits and Hares

The Gift

Deer Ages Available on VTF&W Website

VTF&W Warden Service Pledges to Advance Women in Policing

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March 2021

March 2021


Every Camp Needs a Randy

Hunters Take 6,136 Turkeys

Vt Bear Hunters Had a Record Season in 2020

Thar She Blows!!!

VTF&W Urges Us to Remember Nongame Wildlife Tax Checkoff

March Madness

Trapping Talk

Waterfow Season Virtual Public Hearings March 9 & 11

VTF&W’s Big Game Management Plan for 2020-2030 is Available Online

Reminder to Remove Ice Shanties

Start Scouting Now for Sucess This Spring

Special Snow Goose Hunting Opportunity

VTF&W Proposes Simplifying Fishing Rules

Lawsuit

How to Interpret Your Soil Test

Hunt Proposed to Improve Health of Vermont’s Moose

A Successful Year for Vt Habitat Stamp Program

Springfield Man Cited for Attempting to Elude on a Snowmobile &

    Providing False Information to Police

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September 2020

January 2021


VF&W Mobile App

The Trapline

Ashley’s Bear

Mountain Deer

2021 Huntin, Fishing Trapping Licenses Available Online

My First Deer 2020

My First Deer

The Volunteer Experience

Turkeys Day to Day

Lost Hunters in Middlesex Assisted by Game Wardens

VF&W Has Online License Gift Certificates

New Year, New Outdoor Opportunities

Legislative Update with Evan Hughes

VF&W Completes Streambank Lands Assessment in NE Kingdom

Colchester Man Charged in Poaching Violation

Fish Health Lab Renamed in Honor of FIsh Health Biologiest Dr. Shaw

Roxbury Fish Culture Station Back in Operation

December is the Start of Bird Feeding Season

A Successful Year for Vt Deer Hunters in 2020

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September 2020

November 2020


Bats Are on the Move, with A Reputation to Improve

Fall Wildlife Foods are Less Abundant

Youth Hunt

My 2019 Season

Small Game Equals BIG Fun

Squirrel Pot Pie

Lighting Up Dem Knocks

Photo Album

My First Turkey

Tree Stand Safety Tips for Hunters

United We Must Stand

Trapline

Fried Turkey Fingers

Legislative Update with Evan Hughes

Vt Fish and Wildlife Participates in Eastern Woodcock Migration Research Cooperative

Vt Fish & Wildlife Dept Calendar 2021

Vt Hunters Contribute to Ruffed Grouse Research

Vt’s Regular Deer Season Starts Saturday, Nov. 14

Roast Wild Turkey

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September 2020

September 2020


This issue includes:

Get Outside, Make Art and Enjoy Wildlife
Be Aware of Bears in Bear Country

The Trapline

Composting with Bears in Mind

Vt Game Wardens & Vt State Police Rescue Lost Fotager

Rabies Bait Drop Kicking Off

Fall Turkey Hunting

Use of VT Fishing Access Areas

Online Bowhunter Course

Vt F&W Dept Announces 100th Wildlife Management Area in 100 Years

Photo Album

Trophy Aftercare

A Special Hunt

Hard Water Baits for Warm Water Trout

Red Wine & Ruffed Grouse

Your Rights Under Siege

Why Do A Soil Test For A Food Plot?

Bear Hunters to Aid Scientists

Vt’s Archery Deer Season Starts Oct. 1

R3: Recruitment, Retention & Reaction & the Outdoor Recreation      

     Adoption Model

Summary of Changes to Vt Deer Hunting

Example Calendar with New Season Structure


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July 2020


This issue includes:
Muzzleloader Anterless Deer Permit Apps Available
55 Moose Hunting Permits
Trapper or Warden.. or both?
Turkey Hunting Addiction 
Bear Hunting an Awesome Opportunity 
Fishing Memories 
From One Tiny Spark 
Why do you hunt? 
Trap Line
Vt Moose Deadline
Deer Ages Available
Youth Turkey Season
To Build or Not to Build
Getting Started Fly Fishing
SEEING is Believing
Wildlife Officer of the Year
Have We Reached Our Limit
The Time In Between
Venison Stew
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