…Holyoke a Green Community, and the high-speed fiber optic network, solar panels, and hydroelectric resources drew the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center to Holyoke in 2012. “The City of…
The Land and Water Conservation Fund Matters
…illustrated, our changing climate is reaching a tipping point which, if we fail to adapt, could lead to significant damage to human communities and extinction of species on a large…
Meeting of the Waters
…spills out 20,000 cubic feet per second, which contributes 70 percent of the fresh water in the Sound. But for all of the statistics and superlatives associated with this heavy…
From the Publisher- Eleanor Robinson
…and her legacy by sparking the founding of the Roger Tory Peterson Estuary Center in Old Lyme, Connecticut, now associated with the Connecticut Audubon Society. Eleanor once explained to us…
Fly-Fishing the Headwaters
…fly-fishing-only runs. Both are freestone streams (streams with seasonal flow), rarely deep and often wooded. The first one begins at the dam on Second Connecticut Lake, running roughly 2 miles…
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…
Farmington River Fun: Recreation for Everyone in the Valley
…serious. “It’s a community through space and time.” Some might want to access that natural community by casting a line for trout. Others might prefer to see it through a…
New Reserve
…their complex of marshes are home to a unique variety of plants, fish, birds, and other wildlife. In addition to their economic and recreational value to coastal communities, estuaries provide…
Central Watershed Outings: Hidden Gems of the Wild and Scenic Westfield River
…the East Branch, 16 miles of the West Branch, 13 miles of the Middle Branch, and 20 miles of headwater tributary streams and brooks. These waterways support diverse fish communities,…
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…
Who Owns the Connecticut River?
…Islands commonly called by…Long Island situate lying and…upon the main land between the two Rivers there…called Hudson’s River and all the Land from the West side of Connecticut River….” Resolving…
The Deadliest War in the Connecticut River Valley
…Metacom) is better known as King Philip, the name the English gave him and which label was assigned to the war that almost nipped their colonization in the bud. Although,…
Hetty Green
…Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Hetty was born into a wealthy Quaker whaling and banking family in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1834. Isaac Howland Jr. and Company owned more ships…
Duck Hunters
…It is pretty easy, even for novices, to identify ducks when they are landing in decoys: says Muldoon, “If you can’t identify ducks coming into decoys, you shouldn’t be waterfowling.”…
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…
Estuary for Young Readers #9
…other uniformed men traveling with him. Cavalry, he said. They had left their mounts in Lyme and had come here to Saybrook today to “…march with the masses for patriotism…”…
One Photograph- The BIG Camera
…camera back and lensboard. The more modern types are used primarily in commercial studio and architectural photography, but they were also long magnificently employed by Porter, Ansel Adams, and a…
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…
Bald Eagles of the Connecticut River
…all of New England was void of nesting Bald Eagles except for some of the coastal and more remote habitats of Maine. Through public awareness and laws, habitat quality steadily…
Bald Eagles of the Connecticut River
…of nesting Bald Eagles except for some of the coastal and more remote habitats of Maine. Through public awareness and laws, habitat quality steadily improved to the point where eagles…