by David Brooks | Oct 20, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
A new wild turkey research project in New Hampshire is on the horizon. Thanks in part to funding provided by the National Wild Turkey Foundation, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department is gearing up to start an project that will investigate wild turkey survival...
by David Brooks | Oct 20, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Bulletin has a story looking at the constant, and increasing, problem of road salt, which is spread to make roads less dangerous, is contaminating fresh water. Because the ions that make up road salt don’t evaporate or break down, and plants don’t...
by David Brooks | Oct 17, 2025 | Newsletter
If you’ve been forwarded this newsletter and want to subscribe, add your email at the Granite Geek blog: granitegeek.concordmonitor.com Suggestions or comments? Drop me a line: dbrooks@cmonitor.com I’m on Bluesky and Mastodon (the newsie.social server) these...
by David Brooks | Oct 16, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
ISO-NE, the folks who run the six-state power grid, says we had 1,332 MW of wind power on the grid at about 7 am. Thursday. That represented almost 10% of the total system load at the time and was a record output – but only by 17 MW. Worse, it was less than 100...
by David Brooks | Oct 14, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
In many aspects of life, the old ways are the good ways. Building a path to hike up a mountain is not, however, one of those aspects. “We love our old historic trails but there are better ways to lay them out,” said Erik Samia, Trails Training Program Supervisor for...
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