The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department will join partners from the Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Management Cooperative ...

The trend is unambiguous: Lake Champlain is freezing over less often than it did historically. But a run of consistently cold weather this winter set up the region’s largest lake for its first full ...

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Lake Champlain has been declared frozen over as of Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. This is the first time in seven years. The last time the lake fully iced over was March 8, 2019. Sign up for our Newsletters ...

New York lawmakers from both parties have introduced a federal bill to extend the Lake Champlain Basin Program through 2032, ...

One of the most significant invasive species threats to Great Lakes sportfish, sea lamprey, is on the decline after experiencing a surge during the COVID-19 pandemic, when efforts to control the ...

For the sake of first-hand reporting, the Peabody-award-winning journalist Katie Thornton let a creature known as the vampire fish latch onto the palm of her hand. “The suction is so powerful — it’s ...

Mark Gaden of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission and journalist Katie Thornton join Lake Effect's Joy Powers to discuss threats to a sea lamprey management program. For more than a century, an ...

WILLSBORO — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has treated portions of the Boquet River as part of ...

JACK. LAUREN, THANKS, TYLER. NOW TO A NEW CHAMPLAIN CONNECTION STARTING THIS WEEK, TEMPORARY WATER USE ADVISORIES WILL BE GOING INTO EFFECT FOR SOME PEOPLE IN THE LAKE CHAMPLAIN BASIN. LAMPRICIDE ...

WILLSBORO, N.Y. (ABC22/FOX44) – State biologists are saying that a slimy creature lurks within Lake Champlain, preying on fish and frustrating anglers – but it isn’t Champ. The sea lamprey is a ...