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Eastern White Pine

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It’s a bit of history, a bit geography, and a bit natural history. This video about the Eastern White Pine… Pinus strobus, commonly denominated the eastern white pine, northern white pine, white pine, Weymouth pine (British), and soft pine[2] is a large pine native to eastern North America. It occurs from Newfoundland, Canada west through the Great Lakes region to southeastern Manitoba and Minnesota, United States, and south along the Appalachian Mountains and upper Piedmont to northernmost Georgia and perhaps very rarely

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Vermont Travel Guide

Vermont

Last week I was watching Youtube and had a video show up in my recommendations about an RV trip thru New Hampshire. It was followed in the autoplay by this video. You can tell the first one was a very well done “amateur1” production in the best sense of the word. This video, on the other hand seems to be

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Brattleboro, Vermont

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Faced with the challenge of preserving their agricultural heritage and their beautiful landscape, the residents of Brattleboro created a local tradition that has captured New England’s heart: “The Strolling of the Heifers,” a feminine version of Spain’s famous “Running of the Bulls,” according to founder Orly Munzing. Up to 50,000 people attend this event to celebrate regional agriculture with a

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Southern Vermont Travel Guide – USATODAY

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Southern Vermont Cross into the Green Mountain State from Massachusetts on Interstate 91, and you might feel as if you’ve entered a new country. There isn’t a town in sight. What you see are forested hills punctuated by rolling pastures. When you reach Brattleboro, no fast-food joints or strip malls line the exits to signal your arrival at southeastern Vermont’s

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Central Vermont Travel Guide – USATODAY

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Central Vermont Central Vermont’s economy once centered on marble quarrying and mills. But today, as in much of the rest of the state, tourism drives the economic engine. The center of the dynamo is Killington, the East’s largest downhill resort. However, central Vermont has more to discover than high-speed chairlifts and slope-side condos. The old mills of Quechee and Middlebury

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Northern Vermont Travel Guide – USATODAY

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Northern Vermont Vermont’s northernmost region reveals the state’s greatest contrasts. To the west, Burlington and its suburbs have grown so rapidly that rural wags now say that Burlington’s greatest advantage is that it’s “close to Vermont.” The north country also harbors Vermont’s tiny capital, Montpelier, and its highest mountain, Mt. Mansfield, site of the famous Stowe ski resort. To the

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News from Vermont

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News from Vermont # 230 — Up Clay Hill Burr Morse Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks Montpelier, VT www.morsefarm.com February 11, 2011 Hello again Maple People, There’s something about our Vermont winter that brings total awe from traveling folks; “How do you survive in the winter? Can you get out at all? Do they even try to plow the snow or

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