A proposal by the Department of Conservation and Recreation to remove an area of white pine trees from the state forest is facing pushback from local forestry experts.
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By LYNNE IRONS I seem to have developed a method for column writing. I carry a piece of paper on the truck dashboard during the week and when I...
By LYNNE IRONS I like rain and don’t even mind the cold, but this hardened snow/ice/treacherous footing is totally irritating. Never being one to...
By LYNNE IRONS Due to the subject matter, reader discretion is advised. This column is written solely for non-vegetarians. I have not eaten a...
By LYNNE IRONS I was happy to read Abigail Higgins’s column in the Martha’s Vineyard Times last week. She wrote about the National Animal...
By LYNNE IRONS Last Saturday’s cold snap lit a fire under me. There were so many last (for me, first) minute winter preparations. I stapled a...
By Lynne Irons> For years, I viewed alyssum as old lady plants. Now that I have become one, I know why. First of all, they are completely...
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Nature & Science Stories
After eight years of research, a new breakthrough in science has taken a big step forward in potentially stopping the transmission of Lyme disease between mice and ticks.
A new report from the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium this week estimated that the right whale population rose to about 372 whales at the beginning of 2023, up from a previous estimate of 356 whales.