by David Brooks | Jul 6, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
I have a story in the Monitor today about a program at a Rockywold-Deephaven Camps in Holderness that uses ice blocks, cut from Squam Lake in January, to keep food cold in “ice boxes”. You should check it out because it’s got great photos of hauling...
by David Brooks | Jul 5, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
One of my favorite stories of recent weeks involved an electrician who wanted to goof off but whose whereabouts were monitored by management via his GPS. He couldn’t turn it off because they’d know, so instead he stuck inside one of those shiny foil potato...
by David Brooks | Jul 5, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
We all fixate on record high temperatures for a given location and time, and understandably so, but just as significant, certainly in terms of human health and also in terms of reflecting the climate’s changes, is highest low temperature for a given period. A...
by David Brooks | Jul 3, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
In this era of concern about invasive species, people spend a lot of time and effort warning against moving plants and animals around too much. Except for trout. We move them around like crazy. Last week the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department completed aerial...
by David Brooks | Jul 3, 2018 | Newsletter
After more than a week, I have received no credible evidence to unseat my claim to have found the oldest operating solar panel in New Hampshire. Rumors of an older panel at an off-grid goat farm in Orford have proved unfounded. If you missed the story, check it out....
by David Brooks | Jul 2, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Lots of people, including me, have become interested in helping insects that pollinate our crops, but it’s not easy to know what to plant. Here comes UNH News Service to the rescue: Scientists with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the...