A Missisquoi River Basin Blog

Pearl spends a great deal of her time swimming in The Missisquoi and Trout Rivers. Every once in a, while she looks up and sees a covered bridge and wonders what those are. To find out more, Pearl visited the six covered bridges in Montgomery and Enosburgh of Franklin County to learn! Pearl enjoying Creamery Bridge To start, she took an inventory of all of the bridges. Immediately, she noticed that all of bridges were built in the same time frame and by the same people. From

As our namesake implies, at The Missisquoi River Basin Association, we work across the entire Missisquoi Basin. The Missisquoi River Basin is the 855 square miles and encompasses The Missisquoi River. The Missisquoi River flows for 88 miles from the headwaters in Lowell to the delta, where the river branches out and drains into the Missisquoi Bay of Lake Champlain in Swanton. The original name of the river is Wázowategók, which translates as either “the river that turns back”

Pearl is back and ready to spread some knowledge across the watershed! Today's topic? The importance of wetlands. To start, let's get a understanding of what a wetland is. Wetlands are areas where water saturation plays a key role in shaping soil development and influencing the types of plant and animal communities present both in the soil and on its surface. The defining characteristic of most wetlands is the presence of soil or substrate that is periodically saturated or su