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Hitchcock Center names new director

Hitchcock Center for the Environment’s new executive director, William “Billy” Spitzer, who begins his tenure later in July, brings experience in science education, climate communication, and network building. Read more…

 

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Here's the August 2 Earth Matters (in the paper on July 31), by regular contributor John Sinton - Part 2 of his “Salmon Story.” Salmon no longer migrate up into their ancestral spawning grounds in the Connecticut River watershed. Why? The one-word answer is dams. There’s more to it than that, of course.
Food for thought.

P.S. If you’re unable to access the Gazette page, wait a day or two and go to the Hitchcock Center website, www.hitchcockcenter.org, where you’ll find the article on the home page. That version of the article also has notes from John about both articles.
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Editor’s note: This is the second of two parts exploring the migration of Atlantic salmon. The first part ran last Saturday, July 23.Meskouamegou, the Atlantic salmon, hatched high in the Kwinitekw (Connecticut) River watershed in 1600, had come from...
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Here’s the July 24 Earth Matters, by regular contributor John Sinton. This is the first article of a two-part series on the history of Atlantic salmon in the Connecticut River watershed. Part 2 will appear next Saturday, July 31.

John has provided informative notes to accompany the article, which appear only in the version that will be on the Hitchcock Center website, www.hitchcockcenter.org, early in the coming week. You’ll find the article on the home page. Scroll down to the end of the piece for a link to the notes.
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Editor’s note: This is the first of two parts exploring the migration of Atlantic salmon. Part 2 will run next Saturday, July 31.In the year 1600, high in the watershed of the Kwinitekw (Connecticut) River near what is now the village of Beecher...
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