Greater Northfield Watershed Association

09/13/2021

Check out all the new adventures we have been up to!

Just over 6 months ago Greater Northfield Watershed Association was reconstituted while the pandemic raged and our political system was in turmoil.  Adjusting our gaze from the rearview to the road ahead, we can recognize some adaptations we want to keep - like learning to Zoom - while we feel...

02/16/2021

https://greenfieldrecorder-ma-app.newsmemory.com/?publink=110a7a76a

12/10/2020

https://greenfieldrecorder-ma-app.newsmemory.com/?publink=474be6d4f

MONTAGUE — A proposal by the FirstLight Hydro Generating Co. that will determine its interactions with the local landscape for the next 50 years has been praised for potentially improving the ecology of the local stretch of the Connecticut River, but also criticized as a missed opportunity to impr...

08/01/2020

Some good data on Northfield Mountain plant. Since the closing of Vermont Yankee, it’s been running on natural gas electricity.

Recorder readers may have been surprised to see pictures of FirstLight Power’s new CEO Alicia Barton and Board President Phil Giudice recently. Photos are nice. But their profiles may have left people with misconceptions — particularly about clean energy and describing the Northfield Mountain Pu...

04/30/2020

The Conservation Law Foundation! If you are looking to make donations to environmental groups, it’s a good choice.

“This heinous new rule is another Trump Administration giveaway to industries at the expense of our environment, and it cannot go unchecked.” Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump Administration’s rollback of protections for wetlands and streams across t...

07/25/2019

Found this super useful (and a little nerdy) site. https://www.conservationeasement.us/

The GNWA monitors some private conservation lands, but this article reveals what happens(or doesn't) on lands set aside as compensation for development...https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-isnt-publicly-funded-conservation-on-private-land-more-accountable?fbclid=IwAR3uTZChOWDTgW_47SbI6b3zO9x9DoeD6_u9OmawLwPao5ouiaumli5Vf3Y

07/16/2019

A bunch of us went out on the river for a full moon float!

06/08/2019

Another example of local action and legislation spreading statewide, and eventually enough states can influence federal law.

06/01/2019

Careful
Driving! This time of year the snappers come out of the wetlands to lay eggs (in sand and in my mulched beds!). They also cross roads.