The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is asking the public for help in monitoring the state's wild turkey population. The state is looking for information about turkey families spotted in Vermont during August.

State wildlife biologist Forrest Hammond discusses Vermont's efforts to control the bear population, we hear about dairy issues and milk supply and we learn about a Middlebury College team of poets competing in a national competition.

Botanists say they've found a flower in southern Vermont that they didn't expect to be there - an "arrow-leaved aster" was found in a conservation reserve in Bennington.

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is asking for the public's help in gauging the number of bat colonies remaining in Rutland County.