Life's a Beach
Volume 3 | NO. 1
I am on record as not being much of a beach person. It’s not that I don’t like the beach. It’s more that I don’t like the freezing cold water and the blinding sun, or the sand, whether it’s in my lunch, my bathing suit or, inevitably, my car, to be removed in the fall while I’m crouching on the back seat with an industrial strength car wash ...
Birds in the Hand
Volume 3 | NO. 1
A visit to the Joppa Flats Bird Banding Research Station for a closer look at songbirds
While attracting birds to your yard with plantings and feeders is a wonderful way to have daily encounters with your neighborhood birds, Joppa Flats offers the chance to see songbirds literally right under your nose. The education center’s banding station — located on Plum Island and run in cooperation with the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge — records migrating species...
Fresh Tracks with the Trustees
Volume 2 | NO. 4
The Trustees of Reservations has more than 20 properties on the North Shore awaiting your winter tracks. When the snow flies, Appleton Farms’ 12 miles of wintry woodland and farm trails are idyllic for the cross country skier. Equally blissful for the cross-country skier and snowshoer are the dune trails at Crane Beach in Ipswich and the carriage paths at Ravenswood in Gloucester. If it’s the off-the-beaten path experience you’re looking for, with or without...
With Respect to the Ocean
The images of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have been devastating and frustrating as we all wait for some good news. Where do we go for answers, solutions and reassurance? What can we do to help? How will our local beaches be affected? When we think of the oceans, we are humbled. After all, the oceans occupy over 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, yet it is estimated 80 percent of the pollution...