Third Annual Early Career Achievement in Environmentalism Award We are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Early Career Achievement in Environmentalism Award. You are invited to meet the winners and learn more about their work at a reception, with thanks to our host The Rockfall Foundation, to be held: November 6, 2025 5:30 – 7 p.m. deKoven House …
ANSWERS: 1 a; 2 c; 3 a; 4 d; 5 a & b (c is found down south, and d is not a real mussel, but we think it would be a good name for a mussel); 6 a (Historically, most of the islands of the Connecticut River in CT were also named by river mile—e.g., Six Mile Island, Eight …
The Union camp and our ferry assignment—a steamboat on the Rappahannock River—was just a few hundred yards from where Ray and I jumped off the train.
Fall is the perfect time to forage for mushrooms in New England as many species thrive in the cooler, wetter weather. Forage if you must, but beware as many mushrooms are inedible or poisonous!
One of the many things we have learned over the decades working to make our rivers, streams, lakes, and wetlands healthy and full of life again is that some of the smallest and least conspicuous river critters can play an outsized role in this work.
How much time does it take for people to get a dose of nature high enough to say they feel healthy and have a strong sense of well-being?
On a late spring day, I sat in a rustic cabin in northern Vermont, guest of Owen Ward, head Orvis guide for the well-known Woodstock Inn.
Inspired by artists and writers such as Thomas Cole and Timothy Dwight, many tourists during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries came to the Connecticut River valley to visit the region’s mountain houses atop peaks such as Mount Tom, Mount Holyoke, and Mount Sugarloaf. Visitors enjoyed the panoramic views and amenities such as restaurants, observatories, theaters, concerts, and inclined railroads.
Please meet one of the Connecticut River valley’s true (and mostly unsung) heroes: the artist John H. Sargent of Quaker Hill, Connecticut.
One of the pair of adult barred owls, East Haddam, CT.
The late-May morning I arrived at the Greater
Hartford Jaycees Community Boathouse on the
Connecticut River for my first-ever rowing lesson,
I was equal parts apprehensive and ambitious.
News from our River Partners…
It’s time for some fun! How much do you know about the river and its non-human inhabitants?
My friend Eleanor Robinson of Old Lyme was dying of cancer. In late September 2021, she and her husband, Mark, invited John and me to go on a swallow watch on the Connecticut River in their boat.
One of the reasons many people love living in the Connecticut River valley is the ability to observe wildlife in the landscape around them.
It was a veritable Who’s Who of the Connecticut River watershed’s principal stewards last May at a two-day retreat of the Connecticut River Watershed Partnership (CRWP). Led by CRWP’s executive director, Mass Audubon’s Markelle Smith, twenty-seven people spent all or part of the meeting at the Grafton Inn in Grafton, Vermont, discussing past successes, current challenges, and steps to more effective collaboration.
The slump, the dump, the Betty, the crisp, the crumble, or the cobbler! What’s the difference? These are all versions of a cooked fruit dessert with a crumble, biscuit, or pie crust on top and/or bottom, and baked in the oven or cooked on the stovetop.
Trump’s chainsaw massacre of federal agencies is
impeding fish and wildlife restoration nationwide.
Avid trout anglers learn not only about the fish but the working of the watershed. Yes, we want to be completely in touch with our rivers. And one aspect of that desire is to study aquatic macro invertebrates. Tucked under rocks, buried in the mud, encased in gravel and sand, they abide on the riverbed, an essential part of the trout’s food chain.
Saybrook station. The conductor pushed the car door aside and, leaning out of the train, looked up and down the length of the platform for passengers, then called out, “Board!”