by David Brooks | Nov 7, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Here’s one way to think about the latest effort by New Hampshire Fish and Game to support pollinators: It’s the skinniest environmental program in the state. The target of the program, which just got a funding boost, are the rights-of-way that the...
by David Brooks | Nov 7, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Today’s lesson about the reality of fighting pollution starts on the floor of my barn. For years I have bought compressed bags of sawdust from regional lumber mills as bedding for a few sheep. It is good bedding, uses a byproduct of New England industry, and makes...
by David Brooks | Nov 5, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A long-running study at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest – where long-running studies are the norm – found that the population of beetles fell an incredible 83% between mid 1970s and mid 2010s. The most likely cause? Less snow. The finding indicates...
by David Brooks | Nov 4, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Researchers with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire have received a National Science Foundation Award to better understand how forests and other vegetation control nitrogen and sequester carbon in watersheds and how this dynamic...
by David Brooks | Oct 31, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire’s solar commercial rebate program is being shut to new applications, due to a lack of funds, due mostly to a little-known energy supplier in New Hampshire with some very big contracts that went bankruptcy. Bob Sanders of NH Business Review has the...
by David Brooks | Oct 31, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
“Despite setbacks and delays, the UMaine project is likely to be the first floating commercial-scale wind farm in the U.S.” says Portland Press-Herald’s Tux Turkel, probably the most experienced energy reporter still writing for a New England...
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