by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
LIDAR mapping found that Mt. Tecumseh in New Hampshire is only 3,995 feet tall, potentially* removing it from the list of 4000-footers/ Or so says this article by the Appalachian Mountain Club. *I added the “potentially” after the comment below noted that...
by David Brooks | Feb 22, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
From NH Aviation Museum: More than a century ago, her dad started Blake’s Creamery in Manchester, a company still going strong today. But growing up in the 1920s, Bernice Blake wasn’t interested in the food business. Instead sshe took flying lessons at...
by David Brooks | Feb 21, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
In recent years, as I’m sure you know, drug overdose deaths have soared in the U.S. and spread to pretty much all segments of society, thanks largely to opioid use (painkillers and heroin). A new study confirms what most suspected: The overdose death rate in our...
by David Brooks | Feb 21, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
(Don’t trust my reporting? You can look at the whole presentation on the ISO-New England web page here.) There’s an “elegant and simpler” way for New England’s power grid to deal with concerns about running out of fuel during a cold snap while meeting...
by David Brooks | Feb 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Back in 2015, a dozen deer were found dead in South Hampton, NH, due to over-feeding during winter – an extreme case of how well-meaning attempts to help deer in winter can backfire. Northern Woodlands magazine – which is, by the way, a great magazine; you...
by David Brooks | Feb 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
We all know road salt is bad for plants and waterways, and that doesn’t even count what it’s doing to my car, but new research in New Hampshire based in part on citizen-science work says it’s worse than we realized, or at least more complicated. An analysis of water...