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The Middleton Stream Team is proud to announce the launch of our “newest” redesigned website. On behalf of all of us, WELCOME! New Features: The new site features a beautiful magazine style theme with a sleek, modern design layout that will balance...WET PLACES FORMED OVER A LONG TIME
In this weeks Water Closet, Pike talks about the Middleton Stream Team’s annual fall hike in which walkers aged 5-82 walked up and down a three mile path which took them through a bog. Pike discusses how the terrain was formed by retreating glaciers which scoured the landscape down to bedrock and then how plants returned from the south. Depressions in the rock filled with water and plants grew on the edges and in time generations died and along with the sediment from run off filled in some of the poorly drained lakes and ponds to become bogs.
HERONS FEEDING IN A DRY FIELD by Arthur McKee
In this weeks Water Closet, Pike forwards another great story from Arthur McKee who witnessed a great blue heron feeding on a Pacific giant gopher. its hard to imagine a heron which we normally think of as feeding on fish swallowing a live giant gopher which continues its struggle to survive as it surges down the neck and gullet of this magnificent bird. I found the story fascinating and I think you will also.
WATER FOLLIES , REVISITED, by Kerry Mackin
In this weeks Water Closet, Pike presents an article by Kerry Mackin, former Executive Director of the Ipswich River Watershed Association, who visited Arizona and writes about a parched and dry part of our country where rainfall is scarce, yet growth continues unbounded taxing the limited water resources of the region, the problem being further compounded by mans often misguided and wasteful use of such limited water resources. It should also make us all think a little more about water conservation in our own back yard since our water supplies are also not unlimited.
WASTES? NOT REALLY, RATHER ASHES TO ASHES, DUST TO DUST
Water Closet for 10-18-13 Septic Systems In last week’s Water Closet we mentioned the famous Crane Estate in Ipswich. The Cranes of Chicago made their fortune manufacturing and selling plumbing supplies. This week the Water Closet flushes an essay on its readers...A BIT OF HEAVEN NEAR AT HAND
In this weeks Water Closet, Pike once again opines on the beauty of the area surrounding the mouth of the Ipswich River with its beaches, hills, salt marshes, tidal flats and sand bars. It may well be as close as we can get to heaven on earth.
HERON’S LIVELY, HEAVY MEAL
In this week’s Water Closet, Pike provides a graphic description of a magnificent raptor catching and swallowing its unfortunate prey. it is a lesson in how nature has endowed some predators with the optimum anatomy and skills to survive in the wilderness.
MEANDERING ON THE IPSWICH RIVER
In this weeks Water Closet, Pike tells about a recent trip along the Ipswich River with fellow Stream Teamers. Pike notes the impact of the resurgent beaver population in changing the landscape of the river flood plane which likely would not be apparent to those who do not venture onto the river. Hopefully the article will inspire people to appreciate the beauty of the river and its surround as a sanctuary from our man made world and make them want to preserve it for future generations..