About Maeve Fairfax
Maeve Fairfax is a senior majoring in environmental studies and minoring in reporting and documentary storytelling. She writes about environmental issues in Vermont. In her free time, she likes to hike and play the fiddle.
🎧 Audio postcard: One arborist’s mission to protect black ash trees
Milton arborist Kris Dulmer keeps a lookout for healthy black ash trees. When he finds one, he volunteers to inject it with a dose of insecticide.
How Vermonters are tracking the state’s largest trees
“Everyone likes a big tree,” Arborist and Milton Tree Warden Kris Dulmer said.
Plans for a municipal septic system are underway in Jericho — what does it mean for the town?
Reliance on on-site septic and well water signifies that a place “is frozen in amber, ain’t nothing gonna happen here again, it is what it is, nothing’s gonna change,” said Chris Campany, executive director of the Windham County Regional Planning Commission.
Vermonters learn how to weatherize homes through Vermont Adult Learning program
Participants come from many backgrounds: some have just graduated high school, some have worked desk jobs and want to pivot to working with their hands and some are trying to get back into the workforce.
Wastewater apprenticeship addresses workforce shortage and helps keep Vermont ‘safe and healthy’
Vermont is aging and many operators are retiring. But even before this issue, there weren’t enough operators to go around.
When floods hit Vermont’s iconic dirt roads, runoff hits waterways
But there are ways to improve those roads that reduce pollution and strengthen against floods.
The art of herding geese — and why Vermont does it every year at Dead Creek
When Canada geese molt their flying feathers in the summer, scientists see a key window to study and track them.
The surprising shifts climate change is bringing to Vermont farms: rice paddies, peaches, saffron
Since 1900, annual temperatures in Vermont have increased by about 2 degrees Fahrenheit, and annual precipitation has increased by 21% over the same span, according to the state.