NEWS

When people think about volunteering with the Ipswich River Watershed Association, they often picture collecting scientific data in the field, leading educational programs, helping at community events, or spending time out on the water in our kayaks. While those opportunities are incredibly important, there’s another group of volunteers whose work often goes unnoticed but is…

The spring herring count takes place annually at the Ipswich Mills Dam fish ladder to track trends in the population. The results have shown consistently low numbers of river herring returning to the Ipswich River on their annual spawning migration. Barriers to migration, leading to loss of access to historic spawning ponds have greatly reduced…

Over a decade ago, I was an elementary schooler taking her first canoe trip down the Ipswich River at summer camp. Wearing a massive smile and unbelievable amounts of sunscreen, I sat in the center of the canoe, listening to the birds and feeling the water splash up onto me.  Over a decade later, I…

On July 14th, IRWA staff and interns made a trip to Boston and met with staff from the Charles River Watershed Association (CRWA) and had a meeting with one of our legislators on Beacon Hill.  Our first stop was CRWA, where we listened to a few staff members talk about their mission, gave us an…

The Ipswich River Watershed Association (IRWA) is thrilled to announce that it has been awarded $150,000 through the Massachusetts Department of Fish & Game’s Division of Ecological Restoration (DER) Partnerships Program to support the Parker-Ipswich-Essex Rivers (“PIE-Rivers”) Partnership.  The PIE-Rivers Partnership works across communities to protect, restore, and increase the resiliency of the valuable aquatic…