by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 26, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for August 29, 2014 Juanita, an Inca girl, is permanently cold yet warm in appearance. Mountaineers Johan Reinhard and Miguel Zarate found her near the top of Peruvian mountain Ampato, a god to her sacrificers. Ampato is one of many gods in the Andes; a...
by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 20, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for August 22, 2014 IT ALL FLOWS DOWNHILL (PART II) by Arthur McKee1 (Ecologist McKee’s Part I of this essay ended here last week after listing some of the many successes arising from the Clean Water Act. Here in part II he resumes.) There are some...
by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 16, 2014 | Events
The Middleton Stream Team Nature Photo Contest is now underway! Middleton has miles of brooks, streams and the Ipswich River and acres of wetlands. A wide variety of wild creatures such as frogs, turtles, beavers, river otters and great blue herons are frequently...
by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 12, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for August 15, 2014 IT ALL FLOWS DOWNHILL By Arthur McKee1 In May of this year, I spent about a week in my home state of Vermont visiting family and old friends. The harsh winter had dragged on into a cold spring with late snowmelt and delayed leaf out. ...
by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 5, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for August 8, 2014 Minnesotans used to boast on their vehicle license plates that they lived in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Maine, one time part of Massachusetts is said to have 6000 lakes and ponds1 and 3,500 miles of tidal coastline. An old Stream...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jul 30, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for August 1, 2014 This mid-July, in north Lynnfield along the Ipswich River the Middleton Council on Aging/Conservation Commission hikers walked a little known path; some places no path at all, in the shade of tall eastern white pines.1 While the same...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jul 22, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for July 25, 2014 DOCKSIDE OCEANOGRAPHY: TAKING THE PULSE OF THE OCEAN by Nick Record* The sea is a weird potion of invisible magic. I’m a scientist, and a very geeky one at that, and I’m always amazed at what can be learned with...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jul 15, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for July 18, 2014 A stone, little seen by humans, marks where North Reading, North Andover, and Middleton meet. Six feet high, roughly triangular in cross section, it reminds us of an obelisk sculpted by Mother Nature and later found and used by man. On...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jul 11, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for July 14, 2014 ( It is white water lily time again. The following Water Closet piece was published in the Tri-Town Transcript on July 4, 2008. Visit Stearns Pond in Harold Parker State Forest to see a mile long watery field of these beauties or almost...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jul 1, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for July 7, 2014 By the time you are reading this the restored last surviving wooden whaleship, Charles W. Morgan, will be at the State Pier in New Bedford, MA in early July. The Morgan will be moving on to Boston July 18-20 to tie up alongside the USS...
