NATURE by Kezia Bacon, Correspondent This month NSRWA features the town of Abington in its 50 Places to Explore Contest. Abington lies in the watershed of three river systems. French’s Stream, in the northeast quadrant, flows to the North River. Beaver Brook, in the westernmost part of town, flows to the Matfield River. But most […]
THE FOLLOWING IS THE 8TH INSTALLMENT OF A 10-PART SERIES ON THE HISTORY OF THE ORGANIZATION. Restoring Flows and Habitats By Jim Glinski, Scituate The NSRWA’s 2005 strategic plan announced that one of its primary goals was “to restore water quality, water quantity, and critical habitats.” To achieve that goal, the NSRWA sought to open […]
NATURE by Kezia Bacon, Correspondent This month NSRWA features the town of Hanson in its 50 Places to Explore Contest. When I began researching this article, I had visited only half of the properties on this list. Two of them I hadn’t even heard of! For the past few decades, Hanson has been quietly acquiring […]
Into the 21st Century The following is the 7th installment of a twelve-part series on the history of the organization. By Jim Glinski, Scituate As the NSRWA moves through the early decades of the 21st century and celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2020, it is a different organization than the one founded in 1970. From […]
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, […]