NATURE by Kezia Bacon, Correspondent This month NSRWA features the town of Rockland in its 50 Places to Explore Contest. Rockland might not immediately come to mind when you’re searching for a place to walk in nature. But if you visit the properties listed below, you may be pleasantly surprised at what they have to […]
Effective Campaigns and Growing Partnerships By Jim Glinski, Scituate In November 1998, Steve Ivas was succeeded as executive director of the NSRWA by Bill Stanton, who was the first executive director who did not have a science-based professional background. Bill was a lawyer-environmentalist, who was chairman of the Marshfield Conservation Commission and recently spent 4 […]
NATURE by Kezia Bacon, Correspondent For the month of August, NSRWA features the town of Hanover in its 50 Places to Explore Contest. When I began researching Hanover’s conservation lands last year, I knew only a few of the properties on this list. The discovery process has been a delight! Many of us know only […]
Raising the Bar The following is the fifth installment of a twelve-part series on the history of the organization. You can read the other installments here. By Jim Glinski, Scituate The NSRWA continued to evolve and grow as an organization. As Executive Director Samantha Woods stated at the time of the NSRWA’s 40th anniversary in […]
NATURE by Kezia Bacon, Correspondent This month NSRWA features the town of Norwell in its 50 Places to Explore Contest. Through the years, the Town of Norwell has done a remarkable job preserving wildlife habitat across a diverse array of landscapes. There are trail networks and maps for every major conversation parcel, which of course […]
Early Activism Leads to Cleaner Rivers By Jim Glinski, Scituate The Scituate Wastewater Treatment Plant was built in the 1960s to treat town sewage and to discharge wastewater into the ground only. Over time the sand filtration system became inadequate to treat the growing volume of sewage. During the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, […]
NATURE by Kezia Bacon, Correspondent This month NSRWA features the town of Marshfield in its 50 Places to Explore Contest. With its many beaches and parks, as well as the walking spots featured here, Marshfield offers an extraordinary array of places to enjoy the natural world. You could visit a different property each day during […]
NATURE by Kezia Bacon, Correspondent This month the North and South Rivers Watershed Association is featuring the town of Duxbury in its 50 Places to Explore contest. During this prolonged time of social distancing, we encourage the public to visit conservation lands and other open space areas. While a few of my favorite properties are presently […]
The following story was unearthed recently. It tells the tale of the Brig Polly, a 131 ton ship constructed in Pembroke in 1791. She was probably built by shipbuilders Alden Briggs, Calvin Turner and Icabod Thomas, Jr. Her home port was Boston. Lost Ships and Lonely Seas by Ralph D. Paine 1920 A hundred years […]
A Second Wind: “Watershed Wakes Up — How About You” (Newsletter, May 1989) By Jim Glinski, Scituate In a frank letter to its members in May 1989, the NSRWA admitted that after the passage of the North River Scenic Protective Order in 1978, “we all relaxed because it seemed like the state would take care […]