Blogs

–>  Thank you to the Town of Marshfield, which continues to support the acquisition and improvement of conservation land! Three years ago, the town acquired the 37.5-acre Pratt Property on […]

–> For more than 40 years, the Plymouth-based Wildlands Trust of Southeastern Massachusetts has been steadily acquiring land, keeping it free from development. The organization oversees a wide range of […]

–>  It’s a common dilemma among parents. You teach your child how to ride his bike, and soon the confines of the driveway or the neighborhood are too limiting. You’d […]

–> Turkey footprints in the snow. You can’t tell by the photo, but they’re quite large!   One morning before sunrise, I heard the strangest sound. It was a gurgling […]

–> Bare pavement! (But note how narrow the road is.) I knew this winter had brainwashed me when I began regarding each new snowfall as a workout opportunity. Do you […]

–> A view of Hanover’s Iron Mine Brook.   On the first day of January 2015, I joined the North and South Rivers Watershed Association for its New Year’s Day […]

Ted O’Callahan helps his wife, Kim Hubbard, through one of the preserve’s wetter areas. –> Mid-afternoon on the day after Thanksgiving, I went with friends to Mass Audubon’s Daniel Webster […]

–> Even after more than 18 years writing this column, I find there are still places fr me to discover on the South Shore. My latest ‘find is Round Pond […]

All of a sudden, the litter was gone. For a couple years at least, I’d been riding my bike along a certain route in Duxbury, crossing a stream on Temple […]

A new boardwalk at Corn Hill Woodland. –> Thanks to Hurricane Irene (2011) and the brutal snowstorms of Winter 2013, many of our local conservation properties sustained serious damage. There […]