by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2016 | Blog
The long attempts to bring Atlantic salmon back to the big rivers of southern New England, the Merrimack and Connecticut rivers, has pretty much failed. They just couldn’t overcome all those dams preventing the fish from moving between sea and spawning ground,...
by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2016 | Blog
Nothing in particular prodded this story, except that I found a copy of it online beyond a paywall and thought I’d snag it before I lost the paywall access. This is from a story I wrote in 2013: The world’s first wind farm stood on the north side of Crotched...
by David Brooks | Feb 23, 2016 | Blog
A high school buddy of mine who served in the Navy can do a very funny routine about trying to locate the ship’s position with a sextant, ending with his captain dryly noting that he had decided placed their aircraft carrier was sitting in the midst of an Asian...
by David Brooks | Feb 22, 2016 | Blog
Albert French, who has a USCF rating of 1921 making him one of the 20 best players in teh state, leads a chess club at the Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility, a state prison in Berlin. NPR had a story about the program a couple of weeks ago: Here it is. I...
by David Brooks | Feb 22, 2016 | Blog
A University of Vermont researcher is among those who has found a malaria parasite infecting white-tailed deer in New England. She had discovered a malaria parasite, Plasmodium odocoilei–that infects white-tailed deer. It’s the first-ever malaria parasite...
by David Brooks | Feb 22, 2016 | Blog
A couple of weeks ago I visited Swenson Granite quarry in Concord, and the story ran Sunday. My photos are with it, and if I say so myself they’re pretty good – which just goes to show that with a decent camera and lens (thanks, Monitor photo staff!) and...
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