Introducing: Our Conservation Plan

For more than 30 years, Vermont River Conservancy has operated at the nexus of climate change and community wellbeing. We’ve protected more than 100 places along rivers – floodplains and wetlands, swimming holes and paddlers’ trails.

Today, the need to protect and restore rivers is even clearer.

Now is the time to truly change how we treat our land and water – protect open space where rivers can safely spill across the land, restore wetlands that can filter water in hummocky soils, remove the dams that make floods worse and cut fish off from cool streams, help people move back from the river, and allow forests to grow old so that their spongy soils and towering canopies can hold more water and more carbon. And in the process, we can create riverfront parks where people can connect with natural waterways and know the joys of cool, fresh water. Because our communities deserve clean water and peace of mind during the next big flood.

There’s work to be done. A lot of it. And we know we can’t do all things in all places. That’s why our new Conservation Plan strategically consolidates our efforts for maximum impact.