by David Brooks | Jan 20, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
For three decades state and federal officials tried to lure Atlantic salmon back into the Merrimack River without success, until they gave up in 2014. They haven’t given up in Maine, and now comes news of a record spawning season in one of the major watersheds,...
by David Brooks | Jan 15, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
This is an article from the January-February edition of Environmental News, the newsletter of the state Department of Environmnetal Services. It talks about low-level ozone, which we want less of because it’s part of smog – not to be confused with...
by David Brooks | Jan 15, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a large game-hunting park in western New Hampshire that is kind of weird. Called Corbin Park, it covers 25,000 acres or so surrounded by a 26-mile-long fence and is allegedly the biggest park of its kind east of the Mississippi, yet it is open only to 30...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Watching free TV over an antenna seems so out-of-date that it’s hard to believe the technology can change any more. But it can, and it is. Specifically, channels 7 and 38 out of Boston will shift frequencies by the end of the week. To keep watching them free over the...
by David Brooks | Jan 13, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the more unusual-sounding bills being considered by the state legislature comes up for a hearing Wednesday. It’s titled “An Act repealing the statute governing weather modification experimentation” and I might be one of the few people who knew...
by David Brooks | Jan 13, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The New Hampshire legislature has tabled – “laid to table” is the phrase they use – efforts to give degree-granting status to Signum University, an online masters-level college with a small physical presence in Nashua. That doesn’t mean...