by Middleton Stream Team | Nov 17, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for November 20, 2015 [pullquote]”They were seemingly paddling on a wondrous carpet, dry above and only wet where lightly touching an unseen liquid surface below.”[/pullquote]Mid-morning Friday, November 6, a score of hikers paused in the oak...
by Middleton Stream Team | Nov 17, 2015 | Events
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by Middleton Stream Team | Nov 9, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
The Water Closet for Nov.13, 2015 [pullquote]”Ira worked closely with the Conservation Commission, the Community Preservation Committee, and the Essex County Greenbelt Association over the years.”[/pullquote] Last week Middleton Stream Team’s...
by Middleton Stream Team | Nov 2, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for November 6, 2015 [pullquote]”Erica Goode in the October 29, New York Times, relates global warming to cod declines, especially acute in the Gulf of Maine waters, our sea.”[/pullquote]The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua, long economically...
by Middleton Stream Team | Oct 26, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for October 30, 2015 [pullquote]”Then there are a dozen additional variables besides pigments on the unseen artist’s broad palate: temperature, light angle, light intensity, humidity, genetics, rain amounts, frosts, cloud cover, wind, air pollution,...
by Middleton Stream Team | Oct 20, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
The Water Closet for October 23, 2015 [pullquote]”The broad river floodplain around it stretching deep into Peabody and Danvers is in season a flower garden of herbaceous wetland plants and woody bushes often described here in the Water...
by Middleton Stream Team | Oct 13, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
The Water Closet for October 16, 2015 [pullquote]”But whatever short term injury it might endure, the alternatives are far worse: devastating droughts, some causing massive refugee populations, which in turn could cause wars, catastrophic storms, wreaking...
by Middleton Stream Team | Oct 6, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for October 9, 2015 [pullquote]”By noon Wednesday the water was up a foot at the south Middleton gauge.”[/pullquote]Early last Wednesday morning, the last day of September, rain finally came after an otherwise dry month. The duff and topsoil...
by Middleton Stream Team | Sep 28, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for October 2, 2015 [pullquote]”Thank you Pope Francis for your encyclical Laudato Si and for your follow up visits and wise words.”[/pullquote]Francis flew over the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Caribbean to be with his fellow Americans. Some...
by Middleton Stream Team | Sep 21, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for September 25, 2015 [pullquote]”The inundated areas called beaver meadows, with year round water and lots of light, are lush with life.”[/pullquote] Last Friday thirteen Middleton Council on Aging/Conservation Commission hikers were...
