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Special Series

Water Issues

• Protecting Tomorrow's Groundwater Resources Today
• Establishing a New Public Well
• Search for the Source of Groundwater Pollution
• Cleaning Up A Contaminated Mine: Lessons from Nature
• Water Conservation and River Health
• Surveying River Water Flow
• Cleaning up the Connecticut River
• Drought, Water Conservation & the Environment
• Daylighting a River: Focus on the Neponset, MA
• Restoring the Assabet River, MA
• Water Quality: Testing Water Health
• Water Quality: Using Aquatic Insects as Indicators of Water Quality

Climate Change

• Creating Energy from Sewage Sludge, 3/2/09
• Ocean Acidification, 1/28/09
• Pitcher Plants, 7/28/08
• Caves & Climate Change, 6/2/08
• Part Two: Climate Change During the Last 150 years, 4/14/08
• Part One: Climate Change During the Last 12,000 Years, 4/07/08
• The Big Picture of Climate Change, 1/21/08
• Spring Wildflowers, Thoreau, & Climate Change

Art Inspired by Nature

• 15th Century Botanicals: Smith College Rare Book Room, 2/16/09
• John James Audobon: Birds of America & the Transformation of Art & Nature, 2/02/08
• Silas Kopf: Marquetry Inspired by Nature, 12/08/08
• Monica Jakuc: Music Inspired by Nature, 6/30/08
• Connecting to Nature: Body & Earth
• Poetry Inspired by Nature
• Painting Inspired by Nature
• Nature Photographer Annie Tiberio
• The Art of Recording Natural Sound
• A River, Wood, and an Artist: Greg Stone [More]

People & Biodiversity

• Engineer Jeanette Brown, 4/06/09
• April Fool's Spoof: Pirate Booty, 4/01/09
• Peter Dellert, 11/03/08
• Managing Property with Land Trusts 9/15/08
• Falconry, 5/5/08
• Patrick Dugan, Whistling Wonder, 12/31/07
• Rachel Carson: The 40th Anniversary of the Publication of Silent Spring
• Rescuing Fresh-Water Animals
• Tuesday Morning Hiking Club
• Springfield's ECOS Gives City Kids a Taste of the Wilderness
• Signs of Spring
  • Phoebe
  • White-Throated Sparrow
  • Chickadee
  • Song Sparrow
  • Red-Winged Blackbird
  • Woodcock
  • Beaver Tail-Slap
  • Spring Peepers
• Signs of Spring in February [Also, Song of the Winter Wren]
• The Connecticut BioBlitz
• Celebrating 100 years of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Predicting Biodiversity
• Protecting Special Places: Conservation Options for Landowners
• Celebrating Microbes
• Change the World Kids
• Snow Algae
• Celebrating Biodiversity in an Abandoned Gravel Pit
• Fishing in the Backyard Stream
• Canoeing with Bob Upham: Grand Lake Stream, ME
• A Tribute to Mark Zenick, Franklin Land Trust
• Marion Stoddart & the Nashua River, MA
• Retaining the Rural Character of Western MA
• Protecting Forests & Farms: A Conservation Success Story
• The Eagle Eye Institute [More]

Environmental Change & Society

• Glaciers, Changing Climate & New England's 1st Indigenous People
• Archeological Discovery
• Corn & Farming in the Lives of Local Native Americans, Pre & Post European Contact
• Early American & Colonial Agriculture in America (1650-1900)
• Forest Changes in New England (1600-1900)
• Manufacturing Charcoal & the Effects on Landscape
• When Iron Was King, 11/26/07
• Conservation Ethics: George Perkins Marsh, 2/04/08
• Conservation Ethics: Henry David Thoreau, 1/28/08
• Wildlife Changes in New England, 1/14/08
• Navigational Canals, 12/17/07
• The New Haven/Northampton Canal, 3/31/08
• Water Power in the Industrial Revolution, 11/24/08
• The Mill River Flood of 1874 [Also, The Ballad of Williamsburg]
• Ellen Swallow Richards: 19th Century Champion of Public Health, Sanitation & Water Quality,12/01/08

Long Island Sound Series

• Long Island Sound: Restoring Saltmarsh Habitat Through Community-Based Conservation
• Long Island Sound: Fish Trawling
• Long Island Sound: Horseshoe Crabs
• Long Island Sound: Fish Passages
• Long Island Sound: Nitrogen and Wastewater
• Long Island Sound: A Focus on Hypoxia
• Long Island Sound: Tidelands of Connecticut [More]
• Long Island Sound: Rare Sparrows, Salt Marshes & Sea Level Rise

Forest Viability & Forest Products

• Massachusetts Woodlands Cooperative
• Forest Reserves
• Managing Town Forests for Recreation,Timber & Environmental Services [More]