by Middleton Stream Team | Mar 18, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
WATER CLOSET for March 21, 2014 A sad and disturbing book entitled A Time to Die by Robert Moore1 was passed on by a friend to the Water Closet. It is about a submarine accident. For some readers, however, its larger subject is of poison- containing ships...
by Middleton Stream Team | Mar 17, 2014 | Events
Spring has arrived! Join the Middleton Stream Team Vernal Pool Spring Hike Sunday April 6, 1-4pm Annual spring hike to vernal pools and other water bodies to see what animals might have come forth as the ice melts. We will loop through the woods stopping at...
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,...
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...
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...
