As of 2015, Vermont was the leading producer of maple syrup in the United States. For thousands of years indigenous peoples, including the Mohawk and the Algonquian-speaking Abenaki, occupied much of the territory that is now Vermont and was later claimed by France's colony of New France. In the meantime, a few of the efforts can be seen in this video. Each project delivers on one or all of the following: The list of 2017 grantees is organized by state and then city, followed by the name of the grantee organization and the project category being pursued. say that the mountains were called green because they were more forested than the higher White Mountains of New Hampshire and Adirondacks of New York; others say that the predominance of mica-quartz-chlorite schist, a green-hued metamorphosed shale, is the reason. The Green Mountain range forms a north–south spine running most of the length of the state, slightly west of its center.
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