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Journal
Massachusetts
Boston Record
107.6" of snow, thus saith the Logan Ruler. Measurements don't end until June 30, so...
Last look: March 2015: 105.7"
Last Look: 29 March 2015: 110.3"
February snow: 64.8"
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24 April 2015
Cashes Ledge Closed Area will be spared, for now, by the commercial fishing industry. Unfortunately, some other parts of the Gulf of Maine will be opened to fishing, including trawling, which is damaging to marine life. The New England Fishery Management Council will make a final decision about these areas in June. Healthier marine environments = healthier fishing.
Cashes Ledge
Home of the largest and deepest kelp forest on the northeastern U.S. coast. Bottom trawling harms this environment. Please sign a petition in favor of permanent protection of Cashes Ledge.
www.clf.org/blog/ocean-conservation/special-video-cashes-ledge/
24 April 2015
Cashes Ledge Closed Area will be spared, for now, by the commercial fishing industry. Unfortunately, some other parts of the Gulf of Maine will be opened to fishing, including trawling, which is damaging to marine life. The New England Fishery Management Council will make a final decision about these areas in June. Healthier marine environments = healthier fishing.
Connecticut
Connecticut Association of Conservation and Inland Wetlands Commissions
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Association of Conservation Districts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions
Union of Concerned Scientists
New Hampshire
New Hampshire Association of Conservation Commissions
New Hampshire Division of Parks and Recreation
Vermont
Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation
www.anr.state.vt.us/dec/dec.htm
Maine
Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Maine.gov
www.maine.gov/dacf/parks/index.shtml
Maine Vacations
National Park Service
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
U.S. Forest Service
Conservation Law Foundation: serves, protects, and defends New England's natural environment.
Hike New England
Lionfish University
Donors Choose
Brown Marsh - Sudden Vegetation/Wetland Dieback. smooth cordgrass.
Fusarium - fungi - found at all SVD sites. It acts as an epiphyte, and damages weak plants.
Possible causes? - drought, heavy metal toxicity, acid soils, extreme salinity, plant pathogens, crabs, geese.
Fens - occur in areas where the underlying bedrock is limestone and alkali.
Animals
Marsh
Purple Marsh Crab - Sesarma reticulatum - graze on spartina.
Long Island Sound
Connecticut River
Block Island Sound
Thames River
The Berkshires
Appalachian Trail
Block Island Sound
Rhode Island Sound
Narragansett Bay
Providence
Newport
Cliff Walk National Recreation Trail
Cliff Walk
American Planning Association
Places to go...
Maine
North Shore
Parker River NWR
Plum Island
Massachusetts Bay
Boston Harbor
Boston
Cape Cod National Seashore
Nantucket Sound
Nantucket Island
Vineyard Sound
Martha's Vineyard
Elizabeth Islands
Wood's Hole
Mashpee NWR
Buzzards Bay
Quabbin Reservoir
Connecticut River
The Berkshires
Appalachian Trail
W h a t d i d t h e g r o u n d h o g s a y ?
8 February 2017: Punxatawney Phil was right on the money, Penny...
14 March 2017: Stella comes swinging at an already snow-socked New England and the Mid-Atlantic, with blizzard conditions and a foot or more of snow.
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Coastal
Kingston State Park
www.nhstateparks.com/kingston.html
Hampton Beach State Park
www.nhstateparks.com/hampton.html
Odiorne Point State Park
www.nhstateparks.com/odiorne.html
Rye Harbor State Park
www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/rye-harbor-state-park.aspx
Inland
Jackson Falls
NHTourGuide.com
www.nhtourguide.com/waterfalls/jackson_falls.htm
Glen Ellis Falls
All Trails
www.alltrails.com/trail/us/new-hampshire/glen-ellis-falls-trail
Flume Gorge
New Hampshire Division of Parks and Recreation
www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/flume-gorge.aspx
Diana's Baths
The Official North Conway NH Area Guide
northconwaynh.com/dianas'-baths/
Crystal Cascade
newenglandwaterfalls.com/nh-crystalcascade.html
Bridal Veil Falls
Hike New England
Hike-NewEngland.com/BridalVeilFalls020713.html
Baker River
Baker River Watershed Association
Franconia Notch State Park
www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/franconia-notch-state-park.aspx
Echo Lake State Park
www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/echo-lake-state-park.aspx
White Lake State Park
www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/white-lake-state-park.aspx
Cardigan State Park
www.nhstateparks.com/orange.html
Winslow State Park
www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/winslow-state-park.aspx
Rollins State Park
www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/rollins-state-park.aspx
Arethusa Falls
Ammonoosuc Falls
www.nhstateparks.com/waterfalls.html
Agassiz Basin
Visit White Mountains
visitwhitemountains.com/attractions/agassiz-basin
Clough State Park
www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/clough-state-park.aspx
Miller State Park
www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/miller-state-park.aspx
Monadnock State Park
www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/monadnock-state-park.aspx
Greenfield State Park
www.nhstateparks.com/greenfield.html
www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/greenfield-state-park.aspx
Pisgah State Park
www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/pisgah-state-park.aspx
Rhododendron State Park
www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/rhododendron-state-park.aspx
Mount Sunapee State Park
www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/mount-sunapee-state-park.aspx
Umbagog Lake Campground
www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/umbagog-lake-state-park.aspx
Northwood Meadows State Park
www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/northwood-meadows-state-park.aspx
Bear Brook State Park
www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/bear-brook-state-park.aspx
Pawtuckaway State Park
www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/pawtuckaway-state-park.aspx
Pillsbury State Park
www.nhstateparks.org/visit/state-parks/pillsbury-state-park.aspx
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Shackford Head State Park
www.stateparks.com/shackford_head.html
Tacoma Lakes State Park
www.stateparks.com/tacoma_lakes.html
Augusta
Augusta!
Vaughan Woods State Park
www.stateparks.com/vaughan_woods.html
Bangor
City of Bangor
Durham State Forest
www.stateparks.com/durham_state_forest_in_maine.html
Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge
USFWS
www.fws.gov/refuge/maine_coastal_islands/
Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson_National_Wildlife_Refuge
Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
USFWS
www.fws.gov/refuge/sunkhaze_meadows/
The Friends of Sunkhaze Meadows
Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge
USFWS
Lamoine
Friends of Lamoine
Peaks-Kenny
www.stateparks.com/peaks-kenny.html
Lily Bay
www.stateparks.com/lily_bay.html
Rangeley Lake
Rangeley Lakes Maine Community Guide
www.rangeley-maine.com/directory/listings/rangeley-lake-state-park/
Lake St. George
www.stateparks.com/lake_saint_george.html
Mount Blue
www.stateparks.com/mount_blue.html
Baxter State Park
www.katahdin-outdoors.com/bsp/
Crescent Beach State Park
The Maine Shop
themaineshop.com/maine-parks/crescent-beach-state-park/
Damariscotta Lake State Park
www.stateparks.com/damariscotta_lake.html
Ferry Beach State Park
visitmaine.com/things-to-do/outdoors-adventure/parks-recreation-areas/ferry-beach-state-park/
Fort McClary State Park
Friends of Fort McClary
www.stateparks.com/fort_mcclary_state_park_in_maine.html
Camden Hills State Park
www.stateparks.com/camden_hills.html
Wolfe's Neck Woods State Park
Maine
visitmaine.com/things-to-do/outdoors-adventure/parks-recreation-areas/wolfes-neck-woods-state-park/
Holbrook Island Sanctuary
Friends of Holbrook Island Sanctuary
Sebago Lake State Park
www.stateparks.com/sebago_lake.html
Bradbury Mountain State Park
Warren Island
www.stateparks.com/warren_island_state_park_in_maine.htm
Bar Harbor
Abbe Museum
Mount Desert Oceanarium
Marine and Environmental Research Institute (MERI)
Maine State Aquarium
www.maine.gov/dmr/education/aquarium/index.html
Two Lights State Park
Maine
visitmaine.com/things-to-do/outdoors-adventure/parks-recreation-areas/two-lights-state-park/
Fort Point State Park
visitmaine.com/things-to-do/outdoors-adventure/parks-recreation-areas/fort-point-state-park/
Fort Knox State Park
Fort Knox
Grafton Notch State Park
Maine
visitmaine.com/things-to-do/outdoors-adventure/parks-recreation-areas/grafton-notch-state-park/
Moose Point State Park
www.stateparks.com/moose_point_state_park_in_maine.html
Owl's Head State Park
www.stateparks.com/owls_head_state_park_in_maine.html
Quoddy Head State Park
www.stateparks.com/quoddy_head.html
Roque Bluffs State Park
www.stateparks.com/roque_bluffs_state_park_in_maine.html
Machias State Park
www.stateparks.com/machias.html
Mount Blue State Park
www.stateparks.com/mount_blue.html
Peacock Beach State Park
www.stateparks.com/peacock_beach_state_park_in_maine.html
Popham Beach State Park
Maine
visitmaine.com/things-to-do/outdoors-adventure/parks-recreation-areas/popham-beach-state-park/
Range Ponds State Park
www.stateparks.com/range_ponds_state_park_in_maine.html
Reid State Park
Scarborough Beach State Park
Vermont
Mining
Offshore Oil
17 April 2015
The Interior Department plans to begin leasing areas of the Atlantic at least 50 miles off the shores of VA, NC, SC, and GA to interested oil drilling companies beginning in 2021. The 50-mile buffer was created to protect shoreline areas, many fragile, two areas in particular being the two largest estuaries in the country, the Chesapeake Bay and the Albemarle-Pamlico Sounds. Debates about whether there should be offshore drilling in this area at all have been going on for at least 30 years. Now it seems the green light's been turned on, with that orange-light 50-mile buffer.
According to the Interior Department, the buffer's 50-mile width was set in place in order to "minimize multiple use conflicts, such as those from the Department of Defense, NASA activities, renewable energy activities, commercial and recreational fishing, critical habitat needs for wildlife and other environmental concerns."
But plenty of citizens are saying that no buffer is wide enough and there should be absolutely no offshore drilling in the Atlantic.
Keep working on those "renewable energy activities," everybody. Act fast, save a dolphin. Save a way of life.
1 March 2015
The Department of the Interior has announced plans to open up the Mid- and South Atlantic coasts to mining for oil and gas, maybe starting in 2017. In 2014, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has decided to conduct seismic surveys along the Atlantic coast. People are concerned about the harm air guns used to conduct these surveys can cause to marine mammals and other marine life, and about the potential damage that drilling for offshore oil could cause.
For more information, please visit the Southern Environmental Law Center site at www.southernenvironment.org
BOEM has "mitigation measures" for seismic surveys with marine mammals in mind: www.boem.gov/2012-JOINT-G02/ It expired 31 December 2014 and was written for a Gulf Coast survey, but it gives a general idea.
Coal Ash
1 May 2016
Here's something else tied up in red tape. Nobody wants the coal ash, and who can blame anybody, right? Now some people are wondering if maybe they can keep the ash where it is and reclassify it. Sometimes 2+2=4 no matter how hard you try to recalculate it, or run from it. No dice, baby. It is what it is. Recycle it, and take the time to create the correct facilities for the ash that can't be recycled.
17 April 2015
"How will you handle that new coal ash slime?"
www.npr.org/2015/03/18/393672334/after-toxic-ash-spill-energy-company-and-locals-struggle-over-solution (Dave Dewitt)
Fracking
20 December 2014
Governor Cuomo and the State of New York have decided to ban fracking.... so who's next?... going once... going twice...
Hurricanes
Storms are named when wind speeds reach 39mph.
Tropical Depression < 39mph
Tropical Storm 39-73mph
Category 1 74-95mph
Category 2 96-110mph
Category 3 111-129mph
Category 4 130-156mph
Category 5 157+ mph
After the "W" the storms are named according to the Greek alphabet.
Winter Storms
Blizzard of March 1960
Blizzard of 1993
Blizzard of 1996
Blizzard of 2016
Hurricane Season 2017
Dodging Storms
Shelter
Water
Winter Storms 2017-2018
