“Who Lives in Walker Brook?
NRWA Guided Outing for Families”
 
            Walker Brook in Mason, New Hampshire, is a tributary to the Squannacook River, a significant cold water fishery in Massachusetts, which eventually flows into the Nashua River in Groton.  Who lives in Walker Brook?  What can they tell us about the quality of the water there?  [...]

I don’t mind cold weather a bit, but I hate cold water. That was my only worry this morning, as I squirmed into my wet suit and spray jacket for a trip with Zoar Outdoor down the Concord River in Lowell.
Yeah, whitewater rafting in downtown Lowell. Who’d have thunk it?
Though this was their first trip [...]

OMG, I am sooo excited.
Seriously. I get to go whitewater rafting in Lowell next month. I will be writing about it for the paper, which means I will be getting paid to do it. Sweet, no?
Plus, it’s just about salamander (mating/migration) season, and Ev and I caught a fun lecture on bobcats last night (hope [...]

Global weirding will be bad, but i suppose it could be worse:
“NRWA Presentation on Geologic Features of Glacial Lake Nashua”
Did you know the Nashua River used to flow south?  Why did it change its flow direction after the last ice age?  The Nashua River Watershed Association (NRWA) invites the public to explore these and other [...]

New Hampshire is among the states profiled in the Environmental Defense Fund’s “Less carbon, more jobs” campaign, which seeks to raise awareness of how many sustainable energy jobs already have been created, and thus promote the trend. The website has a map suggesting that NH is flush with clean, green jobs.

It was a superlatively beautiful day to go out for a hike, and we did, up and over Pack Monadnock and Middle Pack, but not quite to North Pack, as I’m still in recovery mode and trying not to push too hard too fast.  Ben had a fine time scrambling up the cliffs along the [...]

What follows is pure PR, but you got to love the club’s name:
Waterville Valley Resort, Nh — Waterville ValleyBlack and Blue Trail
Smashers (WVBBTS)-one of the oldest ski clubs in the United States-will
celebrate its 75th anniversary with a weekend of activities and events
for alumni and current athletes, parents, staff and friends of BBTS,
March 20 through 22 [...]

I finally got to the gym for the first time in weeks (darn dog has kept me busy), and my beloved iPod froze up. I couldn’t remember how to reset it (slide the hold key on and off, then hold the menu and middle circle both down for several seconds), so instead I listened to a [...]

I’d like to blog about Ben more often, but he’d rather we play ball.
 
He’s a funny guy, and he has his ways of holding my attention. Ben came from the Humane Society, and he’d already been adopted and then given up by one couple. Going into his second week at my house, we’ve had more [...]

Ben and I made a deal Saturday, the first night he came home with us from the Humane Society. He’d pipe down, and I’d let him sleep on my bed. It worked surprisingly well. He even late me sleep late, not counting a 2 a.m. potty expedition.
Ben’s a southerner, like most of the rescued dogs [...]