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Water Closet for 3-14-14 Kettles and Drumlins

by Middleton Stream Team | Mar 11, 2014 | Water Closet Blog

KETTLES AND DRUMLINS Isn’t it amazing how half-mile thick glaciers that once covered this area were responsible for much of our topography? A century ago geologist John Sears1 counted 193 hills called drumlins in Essex Country. The last continental glacier,...

Pike Messenger Receives Environmental Award

by Middleton Stream Team | Mar 6, 2014 | News

The Middleton Stream Team is proud to announce that Pike Messenger, a founding member and author of our WATER CLOSET blog, has received the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commission’s (MACC) Environmental Service Award for Outstanding Conservation...

WATER CLOSET for March 7, 2014: Yellowstone Wolves

by Middleton Stream Team | Mar 5, 2014 | Water Closet Blog

Preface – Arthur McKee, a forest ecologist, friend of the Water Closet and an occasional contributor, has sent an account of dynamic changes in the ecology along the streams and rivers of Yellowstone Park’s Northern Range. Changes along our Ipswich River have...

Water Closet for 2-28-14 Iron and Water

by Middleton Stream Team | Feb 25, 2014 | Water Closet Blog

Remarkable Carl Close of Middleton takes us back to an ancient art once common. Even more remarkably his son, Carl, Jr., followed suit and became a professional blacksmith. For his father it has been a lifelong hobby.

About

by Middleton Stream Team | Feb 22, 2014 | About

We are a non-profit all-volunteer service organization formed originally as a small volunteer group in 1998. Our mission is environmental stewardship, primarily in those parts of the Ipswich River Watershed’s river, streams and wetlands which are located in Middleton...