The Nashua River Watershed Association continues to offer a slew of free, family-oriented programs such as guided hikes and canoe outings. The following are coming up in October, in southern New Hampshire, and there are a whole lot more just a bit further afield in Massachusetts (check their web site):
Nashua River Guided Paddle in Hollis, [...]

“Nashua River in Autumn:
NRWA Guided Paddle for Families”
 
The Nashua River Watershed Association (NRWA) invites families to join us for a guided paddle on the spectacular section of the Nashua River from the Ayer Ice House Dam downstream into Groton.  This river trip will take place on Sunday, September 20th, from 12:30 to 4:30 PM, [...]

Evan, Ben and I tried a new (to us) put-in on the Nashua River today, along a bridge on Route 2-A near the Ayer/Shirley line and Groton-Shirley Road. It’s a good spot, not quite so easy as the next one downstream but good enough, and it’s just a few strokes upstream from the mouth of [...]

Other local rivers and streams are looking good, too, George May of Merrimack reports. Anyone who plays on the river should be grateful for the work of these volunteer testers, by the way….
Mr. May writes:
RIVERS LOOK CLEAN TO START THE SEASONA drizzly, light rain greeted monitors on the Souhegan and Merrimack Rivers
for the first day [...]

Despite some sketchy results far upstream, the Nashua River has been fit for swimming so far this year in greater Nashua, the NRWA reports:
The Nashua River Watershed Association (NRWA) has been a watchdog of both the large rivers and smaller streams in north central Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire for the past 17 years. The [...]

In case you missed it… well, you shouldn’t. Check out my colleague’s piece on the removal of a small dam on the Souhegan in Merrimack. It includes a very cool time-lapse photo montage of the site:
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090507/NEWS01/905079987
The upper Souhegan in Greenville is a mecca for kayakers and white water canoeists this time of year. How about [...]

Besides being fun to say and spell, the Nissitissit is one of the nicest navigable rivers around… it smells and looks clean, it’s narrow and windy and it flows through some lovely parts of our region (including Lake Potanipo, and few conservation areas).
The Brookline Conservation Committee is organizing a group outing on what is reputed [...]

I’m still waiting to see our photos, which will run with a story on Sunday, but meanwhile, Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust Exec. Director Jane Calvin sent some that she took of our raft. That’s Zoar Outdoor’s Amber Tulloch steering the boat in back, myself on the starboard bow, a Lowell Sun reporter portside, and Grant Morris  [...]

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 [...]