Below are Hick’s thoughts on a number of issues from his talk and interviews with the Explorer.

In December 2024, a Canada lynx was captured on a trail camera in Rutland County, Vermont. It’s the first verified sighting ...

Under Vermont’s newly-passed Act 47 of 2025 the sale of pond slider turtles, which includes the popular red-eared slider, is ...

Constitutional law attorney Jonathan Turley weighs in ahead of a court battle over President Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles and discusses the extended block on Trump's ...

Vermont’s mid-winter produced plenty of powder, totaling, on average, 218 inches across the state’s ski resorts for the season, which is 35 inches above the ten-year average, Ski Vermont said.

Though large mammals can sprint across a road in just a few seconds, amphibians move much more slowly. They may spend several minutes in the street—ample time to get hit by a car.

White-tailed deer. Image via Depositphotos The white-tailed deer is another prominent mammal in Vermont’s diverse wildlife. Recognizable by their reddish-brown coat in summer and grayish-brown in ...

State Troopers say 79-year-old Julia Peterson, of Pittsfield, VT, left her home on May 31st around 8:30 pm. She was in a black 2011 Toyota Rav4 with Vermont license plate "GCE306".

In research spanning more than a decade, scientists and citizens from the University of Vermont, the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, and the local community assessed the effectiveness of two ...

Vermont officials say the biggest risk is in the height of the summer and early fall, but the state sets mosquito traps in the spring. “I expect that we will see it again this year.

Parker plans to collaborate with legislators and nonprofits to create more humane wildlife laws in Vermont and encourage the state’s Department of Fish & Wildlife to license more wildlife ...

A mammal that was once considered eradicated from the state of Ohio is now colonizing again in the state, biologists say.The Ohio Department of Natural Resources said fishers, a mammal related to ...