Take a moment to imagine a mountain stream: cold water rushing over boulders and pebbles, dried leaves swirling on riffles, cascading down and down. Where is the water going?
For those of us who live, work, and play near the outer reaches of the Lake Champlain watershed, atop summits or near the marshy springs where the headwaters of our region’s rivers originate, we may feel only a distant connection to Lake Champlain. And yet, from summit to shoreline, our lives and actions impact the health of this shared waterbody.
The Lake Champlain Basin Program is excited to share a preview of Summit to Shoreline, an interactive film and mapping project carried out in collaboration with Peregrine Productions. No matter the distance from our lives to Lake Champlain, Summit to Shoreline allows us all to picture our place in the basin.
In the drone footage we see the West Branch Little River, an upper tributary of the Winooski River. It winds through Smuggler’s Notch, a narrow pass through Vermont’s Green Mountains that connects the towns of Stowe and Jeffersonville, before joining the Little River in Stowe and eventually the Winooski in Waterbury.
Stay tuned in to our e-news and social media for more as we approach launch!