by David Brooks | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog
The Wilton, N.H., police are darned if they’re going to stoop to using brand names in their police log, as reported in this week’s Milford Cabinet: July 8: Police responded to Pleasant Street for a report of someone riding up and down the street, stopping...
by David Brooks | Jul 30, 2016 | Blog
Mountain lions have not returned to New Hampshire on their slow movement east (despite what some folks think), but maybe we should help them come back. Why? To get rid of some of these $%^#!! deer. Our coupled deer population models and socioeconomic valuations...
by David Brooks | Jul 29, 2016 | Blog
The moose is New Hampshire’s iconic mammal, but in some ways that mid-sized member of the weasel family known as the fisher (not fisher cat – it’s not a cat; although it doesn’t fish either so the name makes no sense) is just as iconic....
by David Brooks | Jul 28, 2016 | Blog
I’m preparing some future columns, including one on the surprisingly interesting question of the length of New Hampshire’s coastline, so I was delighted to spot, via BoingBoing, a sort-of-related analysis about which countries in the world are the most and...
by David Brooks | Jul 27, 2016 | Blog
This week I wrote about the appeal of fireflies in my Monitor column – and talked about it with Peter Biello of NHPR – so I was delighted to see a story in the Guardian about how a rural cooperative in Mexico is using them as a lure to tourists, which...