This is a problematic plant in wetlands and floodplains (riparian areas), where it competes with native plant species and is difficult to control without damaging sensitive areas.\n\n The Perils of…
Foraging for a Spring Treat
\n\n Foraging for a Spring Treat\n\n By David Leff\n\n They’re delicious and free for the picking! Before the oaks and maples leaf out in early spring, tasty fiddleheads are pushing…
Field Notes from the Osprey’s Garden
…they have come through just fine. Twelve feet below the nest, the marsh was growing a fresh carpet of green salt grasses, ruffled by the breeze. It was warm enough…
Lifestyle
…tomatoes freshly picked from the garden…. Read More New Community Park Coming to the Riverfront March 1, 2024 Moments after we stepped out of our car and began to take…
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’s For Dinner? Summertime, Summertime!
This article appears in the Summer 2024 issue\n\n Summertime, Summertime!\n\n By Melody Tierney\n\n Nothing screams summer like a bowl full of tomatoes freshly picked from the garden. New England comes…
stories
…because the life and health of the river has come a long way in the past 50 years. You can turn the pages of our first edition from the link…
Underwater Frenzy
…April and typically are over by the end of June, but the fish are not always present. There are pulses or waves of migration. First the alewives come and go,…
About Our Blog:
ABOUT OUR BLOG:\n\n In case you missed it, our luscious website (estuarymagazine.com) also features a blog—that strange information beast, a contraction between web and log, intended to add value to…
Cymbella Cistula
…what are commonly called algae. Diatoms are microscopic cells with an outer body shaped in a dramatic and diverse array of wondrous forms. These individual diatoms can exist as individuals,…
People
…Burgess, who was born nine years after the Civil War and died in 1965, was well ahead of his time…. Read More Searching for Sol LeWitt December 1, 2021 The…
Is It Too Soon to Talk About Climate Natural Solutions In Vermont? #2
…floodplains for habitat, Vermont’s human communities need those same landscape features to survive the onslaught of weather shifts caused by global climate disruption. Is it too soon after the July…
River Heroes
…accepted the commute without complaint, never considering moving away from her beloved river. Industrial Toxicology and Industrial Poisons Image Credit: From the collection of the National Institute of Health In…
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: NEW OWNERSHIP, SAME MISSION
…only be done via greater collaboration among non-profits and government entities. A story in the Summer 2022 issue, “Turn and Face the River: Building a Watershed Collaborative for Future Communities,”…
Invasive Plants – Oriental Bittersweet
…is human history behind how they arrived, and because New England was colonized early in the country’s history, these plants are now well established. Peter Del Tredici, emeritus Senior Research…
Mabel Osgood Wright
…who laced up her gaiters to get out in the field and do the hands-on research that made her book, Birdcraft, the first practical guide to the birds of New…
One Photograph- Little Bird, Big Song
…the Des Moines River. Again I’d come in search of something else—a bird of the dry meadows, called the Henslow’s Sparrow—and again I’d found it: at least 10 were out…
John Ledyard’s Journey
…passion for anthropology and archeology. He developed a deep respect for other cultures, which served him well as he circled the globe in search of knowledge, fortune, and the unknown….
Gardening for Good: Ask for Them by Name
…oak, for example, is the most productive tree in the country in terms of supporting caterpillars). But in our gardens, it is our local asters, goldenrods, and perennial sunflowers that,…
Fort River
…Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, named for the late Massachusetts congressman and environmentalist who spearheaded its creation. The refuge, comprised of 18 properties, protects nearly 40,000 acres…