Congrats to PIE-Rivers founding partner Essex County Greenbelt Association for receiving more than $1 million in funding from the state’s 2016 Landscape Partnership Grant program. This funding will help conserve 525 acres of land in Hamilton, Ipswich and Essex, protecting an open hilltop landscape…
The National Wildlife Federation invites you to join us for the North Shore Regional Workshop on Innovative Approaches to Reducing Community Vulnerability. This workshop is designed to educate local planners, municipal officials, engaged citizens, and others on how to make…
The Fiscal Year 2017 Request for Responses (RFR) is now available. For more information, to view the RFR, and download required forms, see the COMMBUYS website. Proposals are due by June 6. Massachusetts coastal communities face significant risks from coastal storms,…
After many years of waiting, communities were abuzz when the 2016 Massachusetts Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4) General Permit was published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register on April 13, 2016. Signed on April 4,…
While much of Salisbury’s dunes weathered the last few winter storms well and gained sand (photo at right), this section of dune at Center Beach was hit particularly hard (photo below). The dune nourishment areas established by…
2016 Summer Professional Development Institutes: North Shore Region One week institute for Middle and High School Educators Research and Resiliency: Exploring the Way Local Ecosystems are Responding to Global Change How do scientists study, protect and improve the health of the coastal…
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,…