by Middleton Stream Team | May 20, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for May 23, 2014 “Death by a thousand cuts” has become a cliché. How about, “drowning coastal lands by a thousand melts” to describe the rising seas and diminishing glaciers? The latest reports* this month by climate scientists surprisingly use words...
by Middleton Stream Team | May 13, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for May 16, 2014 Middleton has an interesting valley stretching one-half mile west to east between East and Locust streets. In its draw a brook runs over clean sand easterly through a red maple swamp now resplendent in opening skunk cabbages....
by Middleton Stream Team | May 9, 2014 | Events
Earth Day was held on May 4th at Creighton Pond Camp in Middleton. Middleton Stream Team and Creighton Pond Day Camp joined forces to hold Earth Day 2014, with the support of many other organizations leading to the successful experience. Mass Fisheries and Wildlife,...
by Middleton Stream Team | May 6, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for May 9, 2014 Almost two centuries of railroads have changed our continent and the world. In America internal combustion engines on paved roads have largely passed them by. In eastern Massachusetts the web of rail beds now lie relatively silent...
by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 29, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for May 5, 2014 What a very strange place is the Salton Sea in southern California. Off and on for many thousands of years it was not a sea at all. Then in 1905 manmade canals to irrigate its desert land received flood waters from the mighty Colorado...