By George Humphrey, Scituate In collaboration with the Scituate Department of Public Works, the MassBays Program and the Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration, the NSRWA has been shepherding two projects […]
Water All Around You School Program in Full Swing
By Brian Taylor, NSRWA Environmental Educator The NSRWA has launched the WaterSmart Water All Around You school program for 2019! Since the program started visiting schools in 2008, we have […]
Empowering People to Protect Water
Everyone deserves clean plentiful water and free-flowing connected rivers, however, there are several challenges we face on the South Shore. In many of our towns water withdrawals reduce streamflow, stormwater […]
River Herring Migrating Back to the Ocean
What comes up must go down or what goes in must go out is an idiom that holds true for physics, biology and for migrating fish! Remember last spring when […]
Is it possible to overwater your lawn?
If you said yes, you are correct. Lawns can be overwatered. Too much water weakens the grass, makes it more susceptible to disease and causes “shallow root syndrome.” How much […]
2018 Painted Rain Barrel Raffle Winners Announced
The winners of the NSRWA WaterSmart Painted Rain Barrel Raffle have been chosen. From the paper entries submitted at area libraries and the online entries, the following winners […]
kNOw Water, kNOw Beer
Join the NSRWA at Untold Brewing for an exclusive night of fun, food and facts on Wednesday, April 4th at 7:00pm. There will brewery tours, acoustic live music by local musician […]
Hingham and Norwell Maps Now Available
Hingham Parklands for the Public maps are now available at our office. These maps are published by the Hingham Land Conservation Trust to encourage the use of Hingham’s conservation and […]
Visiting Marshfield’s John Little Conservation Area
NATURE by Kezia Bacon, Correspondent I led a walk last weekend at the John Little Conservation Area in North Marshfield. In preparation, I spent some time reviewing the history of that particular part of town. […]
NSRWA’s 24th Annual New Year’s Day Walk
Visit the Pratt Conservation Land & South River in Marshfield Monday, January 1, 2018 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Join the NSRWA for the 24th year of ringing in the […]