On Saturday, March 1, an estimated 2,000 Vermonters gathered on both sides of Route 100 in Waitsfield to protest the visit of J.D. Vance to Vermont for a family ski vacation.

What is happening now, in America under President Trump, is a disgrace and dishonor to the sacrifice of my father and all those of the “Greatest Generation” who gave their blood, toil, and sweat, and sometimes their lives, to defend the democratic values we used to hold dear against the threat of fascism and dictatorship. 

A recent article published in the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department’s 2024 Vermont Hunting and Trapping Guide entitled, “A Word of Thanks to Vermont’s Trappers,” illustrates the inherent bias and resulting obstacles to truly scientific, objective management of Vermont’s furbearer species (e.g. otters, bobcats, foxes).