…and, thrive, with little competition. And, as we have seen before, these plants also have effective survival and dispersal strategies. Yellow iris, for example, have robust spreading roots in the…
The Connecticut River Raft Race
With all the decorum of a college fraternity on house party weekend, the annual Connecticut River Raft Race will celebrate its 50th anniversary on July 20, 2024. “Race” is a…
Estuary for Young Readers
…like everybody in Saybrook was at the Town Hall meeting tonight. When news got out that a representative from the New Haven & New London Railroad would come here to…
Peregrine Falcon Recovery
Image Credit: Christopher Zajac Traveling from Le Mans to Paris to visit my daughter some years ago, I was riding in the comfort of the high-speed rail connection between the…
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Let’s Go
…land trust projects across the state. Add your voice to the conversation. Together with Connecticut’s land trusts, legislators and their communities, and YOU, participants will tour preserves, farms, community gardens,…
In Memoriam: David Holahan
…contributor to Estuary magazine, who died June 11, 2024. David was a seasoned professional writer, commentator, and reporter. Kyn Tolson, David’s widow, wrote to us, “He loved writing for the…
Let’s Go
…Land Conservancy (Excellence in Community Engagement Award), Connecticut River Gateway Commission (Special Award for Excellence in Conservation), Madeline McClave (Katchen Coley Award for Excellence in Conservation), and Granby Land Trust…
Birding in the Old Lyme Area
…Osprey, Clapper Rail, waders, shorebirds—including nesting Willet and the occasional Whimbrel (uncommon)—Common and Least Terns, and Saltmarsh and Seaside Sparrows in summer. Spotted Sandpipers are fairly common nesters, while American…
Rowing
…high schoolers taking part in competitive and recreational programs. In recent years, adaptive rowing has become a common sight, too, with people who have a disability or injury taking to…
Hetty Green
…down but not to give up his penchant for high living. This high roller and stiff Quaker married in 1867. He was 47; she was 34. By this time, Hetty…
Practical Beauty
…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…
Japanese Barberry
…is a familiar one. This introduced shrub has advantages: the ability to tolerate the full spectrum of light, including deep shade; attractive and abundant berries (with a germination rate in…
What’s for Dinner?
…to enjoy shad is completely simple and can be, if creatively presented, an elegant hors d’oeuvre. If you’re not up for trying shad at home, there are several community events…
The Aftermath of the Great Floods of 2023
…Valley News – Jennifer Hauck. These floods in particular raised the obvious questions: What is different today from previous storms—especially the Great Flood of 1927 which severely impacted Vermont—from major…
From the Publisher- Looking Back
…Estuary has great gift appeal. We also enjoy a high rate of renewals. But try to perform these tasks with our system. Tech-savvy subscribers and those endowed with dogged persistence…
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…
Invasive Plants – Oriental Bittersweet
…as a wide tolerance of light conditions. Glen Dreyer, former Director of the Connecticut College Arboretum, found much higher pollen and seed viability in the invasive bittersweet compared to our…
One Photograph- Little Bird, Big Song
…Wren—or as we know it now, the Sedge Wren. The Long-billed Marsh Wren (now called simply Marsh Wren) was common enough in my home cattail marshes on the lower Connecticut…
Riverbend Project and the Mayor of Middletown
…renderings of what’s to come. The four-year term had just come into being when Florsheim decided to run. He’d come to love Middletown when he was at Wesleyan, got into…
Rewilding in the Watershed
…drain the water off this particular land as quickly as possible. That has long been a common method for dealing with flooding and water maintenance, and not only at golf…