NOAA’s Restoration Center recognizes that habitat protection and restoration are essential elements of a strategy for sustainable commercial and recreational fisheries. To that end, the Community-based Restoration Program is currently soliciting applications for restoration projects that use a habitat-based approach…
The existing 1930’s era fish ladder at the Willowdale Dam on the Ipswich River is not very good at its job of allowing fish to swim over and past the dam to important habitat upstream. With the vast majority of…
The Great Marsh Resiliency Partnership’s efforts to restore the Salisbury, MA sand dunes got a boost in December from PIE-Rivers partners at the University of New Hampshire. Led by coastal ecologist Dr. Gregg Moore and outreach specialist Alyson Eberhardt, volunteers came out…
Greenbelt, Essex County’s Land Trust, has been awarded a $16,416 Merrimack Conservation Partnership Land Transaction Grant for the acquisition of an approximately 120-acre conservation restriction on the Leonhard-Eldred Farm in Boxford and North Andover. A family farm for several generations,…
The Ipswich River Watershed Association is offering a great opportunity to conduct environmental education outings for youth on the Ipswich River. This position is part of our environmental apprenticeship program to train the next generation of leaders in the environmental…
Job Opening – Seasonal Research Assistant The Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve is seeking qualified applicants for a full-time (40 hours per week) seasonal Research Assistant position. The position will last for five months from approximately March 21, 2016 to…
Above: Members of the 2015 "turtle land" tire cleanup crew. From left to right: (Unless otherwise noted from NE MA Mosquito Control and Wetlands Management District) Barry Noone, Bill Mehaffey, Kelsey Evans, Anne Gagnon (DFG), George Comiskey (Parker River Clean…
In December of 2015, the state Division of Marine Fisheries provided a holiday gift to local shellfishermen and their families by re-opening the river to shellfishing earlier than usual. The river, which is usually only opened for the winter was…
The Great Marsh Community Resiliency Planning Project was given a big boost in 2015 by a grant received by the MA Office of Coastal Zone Management’s Coastal Community Resiliency Grant Program to support enhanced outreach and education. The CZM grant is…
As part of the Great Marsh Resiliency Planning Project, COAST, a coastal adaptation and strategy tool, was run by GEI Consultants, Inc. in the City of Newburyport. Task Force members identified the most vulnerable downtown area along the Merrimack River…