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Farmers take the lead in lake cleanup
Tourism state’s No. 2 income generator By Lou Varricchio EDITOR
MIDDLEBURY | For most Vermonters, it’s clear that the state relies heavily on tourism to help add needed money in local coffers. A just released state report indicates just how important tourism is to a state known best for its ski industry, Green Mountains and picturepostcard landscape. Gov. Phil Scott and the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing released Vermont’s 2017 Tourism Benchmark Study Dec. 20. According to Nate Formalarie, of the Vermont Department of Tourism & Marketing, the report illustrates the impact tourism has on the economy through spending, jobs and revenue to local and state governments. In 2017, 13 million people visited Vermont, bringing $2.8 billion into the state, according to Formalarie. “After manufacturing, tourism represents the largest contribution of out-of-state money to Vermont’s economy,” Formalarie said. “The industry supports 32,000 jobs, or nearly 10 percent of the state’s workforce. The tourism sector contributed » Tourism Report Cont. on pg. 3
Vermont Agricultural Quality Partnership’s recent East Creek watershed tour in Addison County provided an insightful look at the coordinated team and strategic approaches underway to improve water quality. Photo by Scott Waterman
PET CHEER: Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel donated over $800 of pet food and supplies to the Humane Society of Chittenden County during the annual donation drop off. All donations go directly towards the care and comfort of the animals at the society’s shelter. Pictured: Marc LeBlanc and Amanda Cashin, of Lenny’s, and Joyce Cameron and Diana Hil from the animal shelter. Photo provided
By Lou Varricchio EDITOR
As evidence of a growing consciousnessMIDDLEBURY | Vermont farmers, raising movement within the farming long the unfair main target of environmentalists concerned about high-phos- community around the lake, a recent phorous runoff into the Lake Cham- water-quality-related bus tour event was plain basin, are aware of the enormous held in Addison County. The October event helped showcase farmers’ efforts cost of cleaning up the lake. Many still talk about Vermont Trea- and sustainable farming techniques. Hosted by the Vermont Agricultural surer Beth Pearce’s January 2017 anQuality Partnership, the tour toured nouncement of a multimillion-dollar farms and watershed points of interest annual clean-up funding plan that would and focused on how farmers can help take 20 years to fully realize. In October, the Vermont Agricultural conserve watershed areas around the Quality Partnership’s watershed tour in lake basin. Attendees were receptive to the ideas the Orwell area provided an insightful look at the coordinated team and stra- demonstrated during the tour. Several tegic approaches underway to improve farmers were front-and-center on the tour by talking about specific things water quality. Whereas farmers are being proac- they are doing around the barn and tive, municipalities such as Burling- fields to improve local water quality. The unusual bus trek specifically highton and Rutland deserve to be in the lighted conservation efforts in the East cross hairs for their recent failures at Creek and McKenzie Brook watersheds. wastewater treatment plants that have caused millions of gallons of effluent The two watersheds are located around the town of Orwell, which stands just to reach the lake. Farmers are no longer taking envi- east of Lake Champlain. According to Ryan Patch, deputy ronmentalists’ complaints sitting down. Instead, they’re taking an active role on of the Water Quality Division of the the land and helping to improve water Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food quality throughout the region. » Farmers Clean Up Cont. on pg. 8
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