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In this Friday, July 14, 2017 photo released by the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, botanist Everett Marshall compares the delicate winged loosestrife, right, to the more robust purple loosestrife, left, at Raven Ridge Natural Area in Monkton, Vt. Winged loosestrife is making a comeback in Vermont where it had not been seen for decades and was thought to be locally extinct. (Tom Rogers/Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department via AP)
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In this Friday, July 14, 2017 photo released by the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, state botanist Everett Marshall documents the extent of winged loosestrife at Raven Ridge Natural Area in Monkton, Vt., for the state's Natural Heritage Inventory. Winged loosestrife is making a comeback in Vermont where it had not been seen for decades and was thought to be locally extinct. (Tom Rogers/Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department via AP)
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In this May 2017 photo provided by the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, fisheries staff release a 48-year old male sturgeon back into the Lamoille River in Milton, Vt., after it was captured in the tributary of Lake Champlain then weighed, measured and examined. Biologists first studied and tagged the sturgeon in 1998. It was recaptured several times between 1998 and 2002, and this year it was implanted an acoustic tag so its movements can be followed. (Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department via AP)
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In this May 2017 photo provided by the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, fisheries staff measure and weigh a 48-year old male sturgeon before releasing it back into the Lamoille River in Milton, Vt., after it was captured in the tributary of Lake Champlain. Biologists first studied and tagged the sturgeon in 1998. It was recaptured several times between 1998 and 2002, and this year it was implanted an acoustic tag so its movements can be followed. (Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department via AP)
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This photo released Monday, April 24, 2017, by the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department shows one of several bear cubs found the previous Monday starving in Guildhall, Vt., after a shortage of wild food supplies in parts of the state last fall. The cubs were sent to a bear rehabilitator in New Hampshire who will care for the cubs until they can be returned to the wild. (Mark Schichtle/Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department via AP)
