A haycart, with the North River in the background. Photo courtesy of Ray Freden. The harvesting of salt marsh hay was an important operation in the North and South Rivers […]
The Marsh in Winter
The South River Marsh in winter. The salt marsh in winter doesn’t look like much. From a distance it appears to be mostly dead, matted brown grass standing in clumps […]
The Year on the Water (1996)
A new split-log boardwalk at Nelson Forest. Since 1970, the North and South Rivers Watershed Association has worked for the preservation, restoration, maintenance and conservation of the rivers and related […]
The Winter Solstice
Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary in the snow. A wonderfully wide, open, often-sunny place for an invigorating winter walk! As I write this, we have not seen the sun for seven […]
Rivers: Our First Highways
Route 3, our current highway, as viewed from the North River, a major highway of the past. Imagine paddling a canoe down Route 3A, rowing a dory up Route 123, […]
The Storm That Changed the River’s Flow
New Inlet as viewed from Third Cliff. The mouth of the North River since November 1898. When it comes to legendary weather events here on the South Shore, we measure […]
Where Does All That Water Go?
Second Herring Brook at the Norris Reservation in Norwell. I probably would not have gone for a walk last Tuesday afternoon if I hadn’t remembered that Daylight Savings Time was […]
The South River: A Hidden Treasure
The South River at Willow Street in Marshfield, looking upstream. Most people on the South Shore know the North River. In newspapers and magazines, in photography and art exhibits, images […]
On Autumn’s Arrival
Kayaking on the South River last week I realized that, once again, summer has ended. It was the marsh grass that decided it for me — throughout the spring and […]
Watershed Walking Places
A bench overlooks the North River at the Packet Landing at Nelson Forest in Marshfield. For three years now, I have been working in one capacity or another for the […]