Restoration manager, Kaitlyn Shaw promises she has a big grin under her mask, because sharing her knowledge of tidal crossings with interested observers makes her happy. Last week, on a gorgeous Tuesday, I met up with the Division of Ecological Restorations (DER)’s Stream Crossing Assessment Coordinator Jake Lehan and UMASS professor and North Atlantic Aquatic […]
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Wildlife like the muskrats Middleton Stream Team founding member Pike Messenger describes in the Water Closet article, are just some of the “people” who need reliable water to survive. You can protect our rivers, streams, and muskrats by taking the Water for People pledge here. Three quarters of a century ago several lads I knew
Project partners & consultants from The Engineering Corp, Trout Unlimited Nor’East, the Town of Topsfield and Bay Colony Group met at Pond St in Topsfield to mark boring locations. Not shown: Geotechnical consultants John Turner Consulting and Ipswich River Watershed Association. The past month has been an exciting one, in terms of making progress on
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Bob Lemoine knows, you don’t need to water to have a great looking lawn. Bob hasn’t watered in 40+ years, choosing to conserve for the Ipswich River he has long supported as a Middleton Stream Team member. We are inviting all Ipswich River supporters to join us in a regional resident-led watershed restoration project that
A combination of efforts are needed to make our communities more resilient: advocacy and education around the issues, state and local planning, and resident action. We are creating a series of posters to inspire resident-led action on climate resiliency. The Ipswich River is at once a recreational, natural and cultural resource and is the lifeblood
Ngodoo Atume is joining us the Ipswich River team as an intern from Tufts University where she is part of the Sustainable Water Management program. My name is Ngodoo Atume. I excited to intern at Ipswich River Watershed Association for the summer of 2020. While Covid-19 posed so many limitations to internships this summer, I
In 2016 (as the photo of kids standing in a dry riverbed shows), the Ipswich River was devastated by the most severe drought in the river’s history. Images of dry stream beds and fish kills are still vivid in residents’ memories, and the damage inflicted on the river’s ecosystem was long lasting. After a relatively
The new River Health Index compares dissolved oxygen levels measured by volunteer monitors in 2019 with optimal habitat conditions for native fish. The RiverWatch volunteer monitoring program was delayed from its traditional annual start date in March while we waited to see how the current pandemic would unfold and what precautions would be needed. Around
