How to help municipal open space volunteers identify, fund, purchase, and manage open space was the focus of Greenbelt’s first-ever Essex County Open Space Conference at Northern Essex Community College on November 12, 2016. Over 90 participants attended from 27…
Thursday, November 17th, 8:00 am – 4:00 pm Location: Woodman’s in Essex The 5th Annual Great Marsh Sea Level Rise Symposium: Implications for Quality of Life in Our Communities will be held at Woodman’s of Essex on Thursday, November 17th. Click…
PIE-Rivers Restoration Partnership members and interested public are invited to the 2ndAnnual Partnership meeting to be held on December 6, 2016, at the Newbury Town Library in Byfield, MA. The meeting will include a review of the Partnership’s work in…
Municipal Task Forces for the Great Marsh Resiliency Planning Project met In Salisbury and Ipswich last week. Facilitated by staff from the Ipswich River Watershed and the National Wildlife Federation, the community working groups finalized the past year’s work: assessing…
by Nancy Pau, Wildlife Biologist, Parker River NWR Plum Island and Parker River National Wildlife Refuge is known for its diverse and abundant birds, and as a top birding destination. This aligns closely with our establishing mandate, which is…
Potential river restoration sites have unique characteristics that must be considered when planning a project. This is something that the members of the technical team guiding the Ipswich Mills Dam Removal Feasibility Study have been keenly aware of for years. The…
Congratulations to the Town of Ipswich, which was recently awarded a Coastal Resiliency Grant from the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management. The grant funds, totaling $63,300, will support a one-year pilot project to identify vulnerable areas along the Ipswich…
If you pass by the Riverwalk in downtown Ipswich over the next few weeks, you may notice some unusual activity around the Ipswich Mills Dam. During the second half of August 2016, a team of scientists and engineers working on…
As noted by a recent report commissioned by the City of Boston, climate changes coming to the city and the surrounding region are expected to be far more significant than previous studies have suggested. The Boston report reveals that local…
This year seems to be bringing good news for some of the PIE-Rivers river herring runs. The migration is still underway and the monitoring results have yet to be tallied, but herring returns on the Ipswich and the Essex already…