Ben Huffman stands outside his home in Montpelier on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger This story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was produced through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public. In the early 1970s, dozens of rural landowners, real estate agents and concerned citizens trekked to Montpelier in the middle of a snowstorm to decry a statewide land-use plan. They told state leaders the…