Why Do People “Love or Hate” Eastern Coyotes?

…highly impressive, and they are simply beautiful creatures.”\n\n Bill Hobbs is a nature columnist for The Day in New London, CT. For comments, he can be reached at whobbs246@gmail.com. \n\n…

Questing

…early 1990s. Originally based on following maps, compass readings, and rhyming riddles in search of hidden boxes, staff and volunteers at Vital Communities developed it into a unique form of…

The Battle for Fenwick’s Shoreline

…concept devised to help coastal communities cope with severe weather and sea level rise. The goal of its “Living Shoreline” pilot program, completed in May and one of only three…

Preserving & Appreciating Estuaries

…and training materials that are free for its partners to use.” Wood, who is also president of Estuary Ventures, owner of this magazine, added, “They will provide a big boost for…

Searching for Spruce Grouse

…and intestinal system undergo an expansion. By doing so, additional space and time are created to break down the nutritional components of their dietary staple. Come spring and summer, grouse…

The Pied Piper of Land Conservation

…of this now ubiquitous organization was anything but certain. Begun by academics who wanted to preserve varied habitats for scientific research, TNC was tiny, broke, and unsure of its mission….

Let’s Go

…GMCT will have grabbers, gloves, and repurposed feed and grain bags. No plastic bags added to the waste stream! The cove looks fantastic when the work is complete! Come get…

Maple Sugaring

…between the spout and tree or anywhere along the pipeline system. Wind, fallen trees, and rodents can compromise anyone’s collection system. Any sap loss due to equipment damage or failure…

Migratory Bird Act

…contentious and filled with adversity. He vainly searched for compromise solutions to get some semblance of his reform agenda passed, but in the end his reforms were defeated. He was…

A Solitude of Space

…photographer. It is presently located in Amherst College Archives & Special Collections. Images credit: CC-PD Wikimedia Commons; Getty Images, Anagramm (picture frame). Born in 1830, well-educated early in life, Dickinson…

The Hartford Christmas Bird Count

While most birders (once called birdwatchers) are compiling lists in visits to woods, meadows, parks, and at backyard feeders, the intrepid birders on the Hartford count wander through a cemetery,…

Spice up Your Home Landscape

…cultivars, such as “Tom’s Compact,” “16 Candles,” and “Hummingbird” that make this plant suitable for foundation plantings where height is a consideration. Combined with other native landscaping shrubs, Summersweet offers…

Become an Environmental Activist

…training in observation, data collection, and recording techniques. Thanks particularly to the efforts of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, citizen science has become most publicized and synonymous with bird population…

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Reclaiming the Marsh

RECLAIMING THE MARSH One resident’s fight against an invasion By Bill Hobbs Rich Snarski examines Phragmites australis, also known as the common reed, in Lord Cove along the Connecticut River…

VENTURE SMITH’S LONG STRUGGLE

…Stonington merchant named Oliver Smith, allowed him to work extra to earn his freedom. Later, this practice would become less common, but in 18th century New England, it was possible,…

The Hartford Wits & the World They Made

…century later, the Wits would be largely forgotten, thought to be “unreadable,” and embarrassing examples of “epic pomp.” This is fairly common for literary movements, and the second one in…

Below the Surface: Tunneling for Cleaner Water

…of the waste and runoff. These are called combined sewer systems, and many riverside communities have them. Those STPs have limited processing capacity, and in order to prevent the sewage…

Etched by the Outdoors

…was an executive at the aerospace company and hooked up Reneson with a job. The work paid bills but was not satisfying. He took a risk and started freelancing wildlife…