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Come along on a canoe trip through a flooded forest in a Vermont bird sanctuary

In springtime, Vermont's Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge is a paradise of migratory birds where you can paddle through flooded maple forests.
Paddling through the flooded forest in the Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge.

We set off at first light, gliding with the current down the Missisquoi River
and almost at once we're in a different world.

Road sounds and other markers of modern life drop away, replaced by bird song and the steady rhythm of our paddles.

"I love being

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