PRESS RELEASE: Vermonters Hold Senator Welch Accountable to Broken Promises at "Fix Your Vote" Rally in Burlington

Submit comments by February 11 on the Northern Escarpment Project, a prescribed burning, tree cutting, and herbicide application proposal on up to 2,770 acres of the Moosalamoo NRA near Middlebury — which the Forest Service is attempting to move forward without substantive environmental review. [2/11/26 Update— Read Standing Trees' full comment at this link. ] Members of the Standing Trees community visited the Northern Escarpment Project area last summer, hiking up to Chandl

Standing Trees is shocked and outraged by Sen Peter Welch's (D-VT) vote in a hearing of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Tuesday, where he joined every Republican member in support of the so-called "Fix Our Forests Act" (FOFA), S. 1462.

Middlebury College student and Standing Trees intern Sophia Galuppo shared her detailed research on policies for state lands management...