The first-ever inventory of community-owned forests in New Hampshire that was released last week included an interesting number: $146 million. This was the “economic value” researchers put on the 180,439 acres divided up among 1,691 parcels, each 10 acres or larger,...

Until sent me a press release about a company incentive used by two ice rinks in the N.H. Seacoast to install REALice systems (that goofy capitalization is the trade name) to save money: Ice rinks traditionally use extremely hot water to resurface the ice to remove...

A solar-and-battery mix from the national company Sunrun was included in the recent forward capacity auction held by ISO-NE, marking the first time it has been included along with power plants and demand response in figuring out whether we're safe from brownouts over...

Coyotes are the only major fur-bearing animal that has no hunting limits in New Hampshire: You can shoot them any time of the year (although only during daytime, unless you have written landowner permission - night hunting is generally illegal in NH). There's an...

Americans like to tell ourselves that at heart we're rugged individualist farmers and cowboys people living close to the land, modern descendants of Daniel Boone and Hiawatha and Laura Ingalls Wilder. But the reality is that we can't wait to move away from country...

Evading politics while working in Concord is no easy feat – the other day I had to shoo away a presidential exploratory committee before I could get into my car – but newsroom colleagues can attest that I’m pretty good at it. Yet, even a government-phobe like me has...