Vermont officials, legislators face daunting task of Lake Champlain cleanup

The first of many challenges has, and remains, how to improve the lake's water quality and still allow development to usurp the natural land that wold otherwise filter surface runoff into the lake and its tributaries, one 0of which, the Winooski River, I live a half-mile from. The Burlington Free Press offers this look at the cleanup.

Burlington-area Vermonters protest the Keystone debacle

I wish I had been able to attend this, but the e-mail advertising this and other protest rallies in Vermont did not, unfortunately, list times and dates. Oh well. I did join friends from Pennsylvania in the giant protest rally in Washington D.C. last year. Great fun.

Vt. lawmakers consider rules for future shoreline property owners

The rules would cover topics like restoration and retaining native plant communities and their erosion and pollution filtering capacities. Oh, and contrary to the word "intended" in the caption of the photo with this article, that is, in fact, what riparian zone plant communities do. It is not, in other words, "intended."