by David Brooks | Apr 15, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Fish and Game posted this on their Facebook page, with the above illustration. As a long-time fan of culverts, those tubes running beneath roads that are a major but mostly invisible bit of infrastructure, I had to reprint it. Why would a biologist need...
by David Brooks | Apr 15, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Bulletin has a long story about cyanobacteria blooms (often called, inaccurately, algae blooms) in the state’s lakes and ponds. The full story is here. About 60 to 70 water bodies in the state deal with a bloom each year, and half of those tend to...
by David Brooks | Apr 15, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
IndepthNH has an op-ed that says what I said about the nuclear dreams in New Hampshire, although their piece has more background and details, If the Governor really wants to drive down consumer electricity and energy costs and create more “energy independence”, she...
by David Brooks | Apr 14, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
A while back, federal and state biologists spent 12 years —12 years! — studying the reproductive cycles of mice and voles, seeing how they interact with the amount of seeds and nuts that trees produce each year. Why? Because because small mammals are a major route for...
by David Brooks | Apr 12, 2026 | Blog
It’s hard to remember after a winter that had snow on the ground for months and a recent stretch of damp weather, but all of New Hampshire is still in various states of drought and it’s time to start being a little cautious about outdoor fires. A look at weather data...
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