by David Brooks | Sep 8, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
When it comes to COVID-19 in New Hampshire, for most of the summer we have been split into two groups: Nursing homes and everybody else. Right now, however, that split is better described as schools and everybody else. The switch comes about partly because the...
by David Brooks | Sep 8, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Replacing a crossing that carries a dirt road over an unnamed brook deep in the woods is no big deal, unless the crossing was originally built by the Shakers. Then it’s practically a work of art. “We thought of doing a concrete culvert. That would be the easy thing,...
by David Brooks | Sep 8, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
That wasn’t a politics joke: I mean the bird. “The good news is we set a new record for territorial pairs of loons,” said Harry Vogel, senior biologist and executive director of the Moultonborough, N.H.-based Loon Preservation Committee. “We now have more than...
by David Brooks | Sep 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Increasing carbon in the atmosphere should have a positive effect on some plant growth. A long-term study of Harvard Forest, a research forest in Massachusetts, has found one of them: The trees are storing more carbon than they used to. As reported here, that’s...
by David Brooks | Sep 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome has absolutely obliterated certain species of North American bats, as I’m sure you know. One hope has been that it would cause a winged-mammal version of population resistance, where removing all the competing bats...
by David Brooks | Sep 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Some trees in New Hampshire that have been certified as the biggest in their species are going to lose their title – not because they’re shrinking, but because a change has been made in how to measure trees with multiple trunks. Already dethroned is an Eastern white...
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