Science &
Conservation
Turn & Face the River
May 31, 2022Though it is only ten thousand years old, a river like this always seems eternal. After all, it flows on and on, apparently able to swallow all our human wrongs and carry them away....
Below the Surface- Ugly is Good
May 31, 2022It seemed like just another spring day when we stopped at the Salmon River, a tidewater tributary of the Connecticut River that splits the towns of Haddam and East Haddam, Connecticut....
Monarch Butterflies Summer in New England
May 31, 2022Streamside walking connects us with the splendors of flowing water on our Water Planet....
Gardening for Good
May 31, 2022“For the first time in history, gardens have taken on a role that transcends the gardener.”...
Brownfields
February 28, 2022If you were a robin returning to the Connecticut River in the spring of 1970, you would have seen compromised industrial sites along the riverbanks....
New England’s First State Forest
February 28, 2022From the rocky knob of Great Hill at the southern tip of Meshomasic State Forest, I gazed at a big bend the Connecticut River takes in the middle distance, with ridges fading to gray-blue behind it....
Lyme Land Trust
February 28, 2022There are about 100 land trusts in the Connecticut River Watershed, plus four state land trust associations, plus a national association....
New Reserve
February 28, 2022Residents of Connecticut should be proud that, on January 14, 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) approved Connecticut’s application for a National Estuarine Research Reserve (CT NERR)....
Water and Forests
February 28, 2022Anyone who studies rivers knows that the land cover in a watershed is the number one predictor of the health of a river....
Invasive Plants- Phragmites
February 28, 2022By now, knowledge that invasive plants are bad news is pretty widespread. Numerous articles and agencies cite “billions of dollars” in damages annually to agriculture and fisheries; they are the “leading cause” of population decline and extinction in animals....
Celebratory Ecology- The Forest as Human Sanctuary
February 28, 2022Streamside walking connects us with the splendors of flowing water on our Water Planet....
Below the Surface- Returning Home
February 28, 2022It seemed like just another spring day when we stopped at the Salmon River, a tidewater tributary of the Connecticut River that splits the towns of Haddam and East Haddam, Connecticut....
Celebratory Ecology- Streamside Walking
December 1, 2021Streamside walking connects us with the splendors of flowing water on our Water Planet....
Below the Surface – Restoring Fish Runs
December 1, 2021It seemed like just another spring day when we stopped at the Salmon River, a tidewater tributary of the Connecticut River that splits the towns of Haddam and East Haddam, Connecticut....
The Hunter-Conservationist
December 1, 2021By John Buck Walking slowly through the forest of sugar maple, white ash, and yellow birch, our path skirted the edge of a farm field abandoned long ago. My good friend Tim and I were in the wee hours of daylight of our first outing during Vermont’s Ruffed Grouse season. Even stronger than our high regard for this forest-dwelling, chicken ... Read More
Invasive Plants – Oriental Bittersweet
December 1, 2021By now, knowledge that invasive plants are bad news is pretty widespread. Numerous articles and agencies cite “billions of dollars” in damages annually to agriculture and fisheries; they are the “leading cause” of population decline and extinction in animals....
The Battle for Fenwick’s Shoreline
September 1, 2021Surrounded by water on three sides -most dramatically by the Connecticut River to the north and east and by Long Island Sound to the south—the Borough of Fenwick is on the front lines of climate change....
Japanese Barberry
September 1, 2021By now, knowledge that invasive plants are bad news is pretty widespread. Numerous articles and agencies cite “billions of dollars” in damages annually to agriculture and fisheries; they are the “leading cause” of population decline and extinction in animals....
My Forest Romance With Nyssa
September 1, 2021Nyssa was a Greek nymph, and sylvatica means “of the forest.” So I will use feminine pronouns in this arboreal essay....
Dam Removals
September 1, 2021It seemed like just another spring day when we stopped at the Salmon River, a tidewater tributary of the Connecticut River that splits the towns of Haddam and East Haddam, Connecticut....