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Osprey Recovery

Ospreys were all but eliminated in Vermont due to the use of the pesticide DDT. The pesticide, which caused the birds to produce brittle eggs that were prone to breakage, was banned in 1972. Since then, the osprey has staged a dramatic comeback but is still losing valuable nesting habitat due to lakefront development. One of the ways ospreys have been helped is with the construction and placement of nesting platforms on the utility poles they tend to nest on. We join members of Green Mountain Power as they re-locate an osprey nest built on a house chimney to a new home in a tree platform. And we look at the osprey recovery efforts of Central Vermont Public Service and a concerned citizen on Lake Arrowhead in Milton who was instrumental in the development of nesting platforms there.

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