by David Brooks | May 31, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Foresters and biologists use the innocuous word “mast” to describe the production of wild nuts and berries in woods and fields. The amount of mast fluctuates each year and has wide-ranging effects: In a good mast year there’s lots of natural food to...
by David Brooks | May 30, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Among the blizzard of bills that either were or weren’t signed into law this year, I missed HB1335, which says: I. No state agency shall use any software platform developed, in whole or in part, by Kaspersky Lab or any entity of which Kaspersky Lab has a...
by David Brooks | May 30, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
An editor here recently pointed to what he jokingly called “the first Granite Geek item” on the framed front page of the very first Concord Daily Monitor, printed May 23, 1864. (The lead headline: “Death of Nathan Hawthorn.”) An article does...
by David Brooks | May 29, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Over the last 20 years, Maine’s forests have become younger and less dense. As a result, forests are not providing the most climate benefits that they could through carbon sequestration and storage. However, more carbon could be stored over the...
by David Brooks | May 25, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
What’s the point of a wilderness area if nobody can get to it? What’s the point of a wilderness area if too many people can get to it? That’s roughly the argument which has been raging around the Thoreau Falls Bridge in the Pemigewasett Wilderness...
by David Brooks | May 24, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Offshore wind makes sense along the Eastern seaboard because our continental shelf is pretty flat, so waters are shallow-ish and easy to build in (the continental shelf along the Pacific coast, by contrast, falls off sharply) – plus, it’s close to lots of...
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