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Tiny predators, big impact: northeastern crayfish
8+ hour, 6+ min ago (711+ words) The Bristol Edition Posted By: Laura Bailey May 31, 2026 by Tiffany Soukup | Northern Woodlands | May 31, 2026 | Crayfish fill my childhood memories. I spent summers playing in streams, flipping over rocks, and, if I was lucky, catching glimpses of these mysterious little creatures....
Bristol advances geese management plan with new riparian buffer project
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (343+ words) Posted By: Laura Bailey May 30, 2026 The City of Bristol has partnered with the Farmington River Watershed Association to establish a 13, 500-square-foot riparian buffer along Veterans Memorial Boulevard, city officials announced this week. The project, funded through a River Smart Grant…...
Bobolink: the grassland bird in a reverse tuxedo
1+ week, 8+ hour ago (588+ words) The Bristol Edition Posted By: Laura Bailey May 24, 2026 By Loren Merrill | Northern Woodlands | May 24, 2026 | If you live near a large meadow, hayfield, or grassland, you may have recently noticed some bubbly robotic noises emanating from those areas. It might sound…...
Grant funding to help Naugatuck Valley municipalities address stormwater pollution
1+ week, 1+ day ago (246+ words) Posted By: Laura Bailey May 23, 2026 The'Naugatuck Valley Council of Governments'has been awarded $200, 000 through a new state grant program to support regional stormwater infrastructure planning aimed at improving water quality in the Naugatuck River watershed and Long Island Sound. The initiative…...
A sign of something new, perhaps
2+ week, 8+ hour ago (109+ words) The Bristol Edition Posted By: David Fortier May 17, 2026 by Jo Ann Moran | TBE correspondent | May 17, 2026 | A blanket of yellow has claimed a recently cleared stretch along Route 6 in Bristol's west end. A few acres sit in transition " no longer wooded…...
Holding space for songbirds
3+ week, 8+ hour ago (406+ words) Posted By: Laura Bailey May 10, 2026 One of the great joys of early May in the Northeast is the dawn-break aubade of songbirds returning to summer habitats or passing through to their nesting grounds in higher latitudes. Mornings that only a…...
The Outside Story: Spring's late riser-Meadow Jumping Mouse
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (645+ words) The Outside Story: Spring's late riser'Meadow Jumping Mouse'The Bristol Edition Posted By: David Fortier April 26, 2026 by Loren Merrill | Northern Woodlands | April 26, 2026 | Spring is often portrayed as the season of rebirth, and for many organisms it is. But spring is also…...
Bristol Opportunity Collective, Bristol Pride to host seed paper-making event Saturday
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (357+ words) Posted By: Laura Bailey April 23, 2026 Bristol Opportunity Collective and Bristol Pride will host a recycled papermaking and seed paper-making event Saturday from 11 a. m. to 1 p. m. at the Bristol Bazaar. Participants will create seed paper that can later be planted in the community…...
Energy Commission advances Sustainable CT participation request to City Council
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (382+ words) Posted By: Laura Bailey April 21, 2026 The Energy Commission discussed a request for citywide departmental participation in the Sustainable CT program at its monthly meeting Thursday night. Members voted unanimously to send the request to the City Council and several departments....
Vernal dam hypothesis: spring ephemerals and the forest
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (555+ words) The Bristol Edition Posted By: Laura Bailey April 19, 2026 by Rachel Sargent Mirus | Northern Woodlands | April 19, 2026 | Every year I know that spring has arrived when it's time for my family to forage for ramps on a two-acre patch on the hill…...