by David Brooks | Aug 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A massive fire in 1947 burned much of Mount Desert Island, which is where Acadia National Park lies. A recent study finds that six decades later, those areas have a lot more black-legged ticks (a.k.a. deer ticks), which seems weird. Check the story about it in the...
by David Brooks | Aug 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Have you noticed all the dead ash trees around, now that the emerald ash borer has gotten well established in the state. Wonderful, isn’t it? Just the latest in a string of diseases, many consisting of fungus carried by boring beetles, that has hit eastern...
by David Brooks | Aug 7, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
If you’re going to spend $30 million or more to carry vehicles across a relatively short span of water, you might as well do other interesting things with the structure. That’s the idea behind the Memorial Bridge that connects Portsmouth, N.H, with...
by David Brooks | Aug 5, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The Crawford Path in the White Mountains turns 200 this summer, making it the oldest known recreational mountain path in the country. It was established two centuries ago at the very start of the industry of people coming north from Boston and New York to relax in the...
by David Brooks | Aug 5, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Commuting is one of the biggest drawbacks to industrial society. Once people stopped working around their homes – mostly farming, but also small-scale businesses – they had to spend time going to and fro. The state occasionally analyzes where these...
by David Brooks | Aug 5, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The Union-Leader has a piece about $10 million from Stonyfield, the yogurt folks, to develop ways to improve agriculture so that it absorbs rather than emits carbon into the atmosphere. (You can read it here). The initiative will work to develop a new open-source...
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