by Middleton Stream Team | Jun 10, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for June 13, 2014 Red maple, swamp maple and Acer rubrum are all names of one species of tree frequently mentioned here in the Ipswich River Watershed and no doubt everywhere there are beavers drowning them. Up until Castor canadensis, beavers, returned...
by Middleton Stream Team | Jun 3, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for June 6, 2014 Canadian writer and environmentalist Farley Mowat died May 8th at the age of 92. He didn’t like the United States, the Canadian government, or for that matter the human species. As a gregarious raconteur he liked individuals and...
by Middleton Stream Team | May 27, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for May 30, 2014 What some wag dubbed “the fires of liberty” have a long history along Middleton’s heavily forested North Liberty Street. A dozen times in the last 30 years there have been significant fires in the mixed hardwoods to the east and...
by Middleton Stream Team | May 22, 2014 | Activities
On a beautiful May 21, nine Stream Team volunteers converged upon Log Bridge Landing for spring maintenance. Much was accomplished. Invasives were pulled out all along the bank; edges of the landing raked; brush clipped; steps cleaned; grass mowed. and mulch raked. A...
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...
by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 22, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for April 25, 2014 Back in late winter we fretted from afar about droughts and fires in magnificent, one thousand mile long, California, a state with mountains four times Massachusetts’s highest, and Death Valley several hundred feet below sea level. ...
