My Love Affair With Kayaking

…skill—the ways we would individualize, demo, give examples and analogies—I soon understood how concepts and skills click differently for different people, and how to provide comfort to a student until…

Mount Sugarloaf

…and fall foliage viewing destinations. Few summits anywhere can boast a finer prospect for a relatively modest elevation. Located in Deerfield, Massachusetts, Mount Sugarloaf comprises two sandstone peaks separated by…

What Does the Future of Our Forests Look Like?

…East Haddam, Connecticut, for example, shows areas with complete mortality as compared to other areas where infested trees appear to be making a comeback. One hope for arresting the pest…

The Connecticut River’s Tranquility

…will not want to miss any of them nor opportunities both to benefit from and to help nature in the Connecticut River Valley. [1] Bromage, Erin S., https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them [2] Adams,…

Recreation

…which are becoming increasingly rare…. Read More Casting About: Farmington River, Part Two September 1, 2024 In the previous issue (Summer 2024) we looked at the fabulous dry fly fishing…

Let’s Go

…To find out more and help support this program, visit ctriversalmon.org. Audubon Vermont: Join a Sugar on Snow Party! Come celebrate the maple sugaring season at one of Audubon Vermont’s…

Wildlife Wonders: Are Coyotes Living Near You?

…speaking very highly of these species because they deserve to be spoken very highly about.” We should all be thankful we have dedicated people like Furvey, working in our Fish…

Below the Surface – Restoring Fish Runs

…cables, computers, and complex plumbing. When listing the benefits of dam removal, we mentioned many positive ecological benefits in addition to allowing fish to move upstream. Unfortunately, fishway construction really…

From the Publisher- Black Duck

…could tell, in the first light of day, the difference between black ducks and all other ducks, for which the total combined daily bag limit at the time was six…

Connecticut River Critters: The Mudpuppy

…a 2005 Northern Woodlands article notes that you can find mudpuppies in locations near universities and colleges, likely due to their use in laboratory studies. (Another unfortunately less-benign example of…

My Ride Down Hog River

…waste. In the 1860s both Jewell Belting Company (which made the belts that every factory needed to operate machinery) and Sharp’s Rifle Manufacturing (a supplier of rifles to the Union…

From the Publisher:

…Major with 28 years of service. She has two combat tours to Iraq and had many assignments in leadership positions, culminating with her last military career assignment as the Command…

The Garden

…high resolution that was relatively rare decades ago, but which resolution is more common in the digital age. View cameras are the subject of William Burt’s regular column in this…

Qwannitucket

…Indigenous community made up of Natives from around this region… Maheekanew (aka Mohegan), Podunks, and Wagunks, or River people from the numerous communities up and down the valley within and…

The Secret Bog

…and felt the cold come through. All set: I burrowed in under the focusing cloth, composed and focused, and then recomposed, refocused, and set aperture and shutter speed; then took…

The Art & Science
of the Connecticut River

…people who have come to the museums as children, who are now coming with grandchildren. We can have impact over not just one lifetime, but many.” It seems strange at…

The Forgotten Flood of 1936

…their houses, watching the water rise higher and higher, peering down from their second-floor windows into the icy muck. W. Robert McDonald remembered sewer covers popping into the air and…