Winooski River

But, you know, up here in northern Vermont, where I primarily fish and take people, I'd say we have two larger rivers.

The Winooski River that comes, again, from up in the mountains and flows.

I think there's probably five, seven different dams on that river.

Hmm.

Locals had said that when crossing the rebuilt bridges, they would get a feeling deep in their chest as if they were getting swept away, and they could hear screams coming from underneath the bridge.

Moortown Commons sat near the Winooski River system, which experienced catastrophic vertical rise, 40 to 45 feet.

I think that's taller than most people's houses.

Yeah.

I'm coming to you straight from my home in what we call Burlington, Vermont, on the unceded homelands of the Abenaki.

on sand plains between the Winooski River and Lake Champlain.

Riyomas, can you tell us where you're calling from?

Absolutely.

2.

The end of the ribbon of settlement up the Connecticut Valley, menaced by the Canadian Indians by way of the Lake Champlain and Winooski River route to the Connecticut.

3. three boundary towns which marked the edges of that inferior agricultural region where the hard crystalline rocks furnished a later foundation for shay's rebellion opposition to the adoption of the federal constitution and the abandoned farm and for the isolated interval of brookfield which lay intermediate between these frontiers Besides this New England frontier, there was a belt of settlement in New York, ascending the Hudson to where Albany and Schenectady served as outposts against the Five Nations, who menaced the Mohawk, and against the French and the Canadian Indians, who threatened the Hudson by way of Lake Champlain and Lake George.

The sinister relations of leading citizens of Albany engaged in the fur trade with these Indians, even during time of war, tended to protect the Hudson River frontier at the expense of the frontier towns of New England.

So I was a cognizant and environmentally aware teenager when the Endangered Species Act was signed and the Clean Water Act and all those things.

And I saw my first osprey when I was on a canoe trip on the Winooski River right near the house here.

Saw that finally.

That was the first one I'd seen in my entire life.