NSRWA staff and our partners have been buzzing with excitement over the last week as river herring have been spotted traveling up the temporary bypass channel in Veterans Memorial Park […]
Success! River Herring Return to the South River
2025 Citizen Science Herring Count Update
We are just about at the 1/2 way mark for our 2025 herring count. We send a HUGE thank you to our more than 80 volunteers for the counting they’ve […]
8 Local Spots to Awaken the Senses
NATURE by Kezia Bacon, NSRWA Community Engagement Manager One of the best things about exploring the outdoors is experiencing the beauty of the natural world. Our rivers and streams, marshes […]
Be a Citizen Scientist: Volunteer To Survey Horseshoe Crabs in Duxbury
In Duxbury, NSRWA and the MassBays National Estuary Partnership Program, will be conducting its 17th year of horseshoe crab monitoring. Duxbury is one of sixteen sites across the state that […]
Fertilizer Alternatives
Excerpt from our 16-page Greenscapes Guide. Click here to download. Let Nature Provide the Nutrients Fertilizers contain nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and other elements that help build strong roots and plants. […]
2025 Spring Clean-up Opportunities Around the South Shore
Whitman Earth Day and 2nd Annual Cleanup & Celebration – Saturday, April 12 – 1:00am–2:00 pm – Whitman, MA Beach Cleanup at Hingham Bathing Beach – Friday April, 19 from 1:00-3:00pm Join Project 351 for […]
When in Drought, Conserve Early
It has been a gray, rainy week on the South Shore yet we are still in a drought. As of February 1, the Southern Region of Massachusetts (MA) has been […]
17 Places to Hear Spring Peepers
NATURE by Kezia Bacon, NSRWA Community Engagement Manager One evening in mid-March—one of the first warm days of the year—I stepped out the back door at twilight and encountered a […]
Removing Garlic Mustard in the Spring
Content and images courtesy of Wild Cohasset. Garlic mustard is an invasive, non-native biennial herb in the mustard family, known for its strong garlic scent and ability to quickly colonize […]
Herring Counters Needed – Be a Citizen Scientist!
Each spring, millions of river herring migrate into Massachusetts’ coastal waters to begin their annual migration up our coastal streams and rivers. They are returning to the place of their […]