Estuary Magazine

03/01/2025

You're invited! January 11, 2025: the CT River Salmon Association will honor our publisher Dick Shriver at its 47th annual dinner and fundraiser, Casa Mia at the Hawthorne, Berlin, CT! Find out more about the dinner and how to reserve your tickets at ctriversalmon.org.

Read Steve Gephard's story about the history and activities of this 50-year-old organization in our Winter issue.

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01/01/2025

Happy New Year from Estuary magazine!

30/12/2024

Think spring and start some native plants from seed now with this cold stratification technique. Learn all about it in Judy Preston's Winter issue column "Gardening for Good." "Cold stratification," Judy writes, "using milk jugs in a sunny outdoor location, is a simple technique that can be used to generate local native plants to enhance our local gardens." She shares how to harvest local seed and why it needs a period of cold to germinate.

Find out more in the Winter issue. Log in to your online account at estuarymagazine.com to read online or subscribe at estuarymagazine.com for access to all of the winter issue stories and our back issue archive of all of Judy's columns. Winter is a great time to start planning your 2025 garden!

28/12/2024

Whoa, that looks like chilly work. Read about Steve Gephard and Sally Harold's adventure helping to plant salmon eggs in a river in Maine. Steve (with his back to us in the photo) and Sally wanted to know more and Steve even experimented with the technique in Connecticut's Farmington River. What are they doing and is this something that could be used in the Connecticut River watershed? Find out in their story in the Winter 2024-2025 issue. It's a story with quite a few twists and turns!

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photo: Sally Harold

26/12/2024

Happy Holidays all! As we barrel towards the end of 2024 and look ahead to 2025, we're thankful for all of you who have supported us this year, and we're looking forward to learning more about the Connecticut River watershed with you in the year ahead!

Here's an early sneak peek at the Spring 2025 issue cover for all of our bird and nature lovers and fans of Bill Burt's One Photograph column.

Please join us! Start the new year off with a subscription—visit estuarymagazine.com today!

photo (c) William Burt

21/12/2024

Celebrating the winter solstice with Kristina White's cover photo, "Winter Solstice, 2023," Lyme Land Trust 2023 People’s Vision Award winner, part of ImaginingLyme.org, a visual exploration of Lyme’s preserves. Lyme Land Trust is one of our wonderful River Partners!

Subscribe to enjoy every issue of Estuary magazine at estuarymagazine.com. You can see the table of contents for the current winter issue and read a sample story, "What Does the Future of our Forests Look Like?" on our website.

CT Conservation

21/12/2024

Whoever asks you to get out your phone? 😊 An invitation from our River Partner Connecticut Land Conservation Council

17/12/2024

From our River Partner Audubon Vermont. Read our story about the 125th annual Christmas Bird Count in the current issue!

December 14, 2024 to January 5, 2025

12/12/2024

A subscription to Estuary magazine makes a great gift! We're all about the Connecticut River, its watershed, science & conservation, wildlife, history and culture, recreation, and the people who are making it happen. Give a gift that lasts all year, is educational, and fun! Just $40/yr for print + digital.

Did you know the Connecticut River watershed covers 11,260 square miles from the Canadian border to Long Island Sound; runs through Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut; and is home to 2.4 million people? That's a lot of stories! Join us!

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08/12/2024

Are you getting ready for the 125th Annual Christmas Bird Count? Now a program of National Audubon, it runs from December 14 to January 5. Alison Guinness writes in the Winter issue, "There are about 2,600 specified count circles across the US, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific Islands, across nearly twenty countries, with around 120 spread throughout New England. Seventy-nine thousand people participated in the Christmas Bird Count in 2022. They observed 40,298,635 birds of 2,244 different species." Get out there! What will you see?

Find out more in the Winter issue. Subscribe today/read the story on pages 47-49.

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"Red-tailed hawk over East Haddam, CT, Dec 2015," (c) Chris Howe

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04/12/2024

Who writes for Estuary magazine? We're fortunate to have Anthony Irving, a former certified forester, contributing his vast professional knowledge to the new Winter issue in a highly readable and accessible story, "What Does the Future of Our Forests Look Like?"

"These are difficult times for our forests," he writes. "Non-native pests and pathogens are causing great harm and, in some cases, nearly eradicating entire tree species. … The question is what do these changes mean for our yards and woodlands, and what does the future for our forests look like?"

If you'd like to know more, become a subscriber or turn to page 27 in the Winter issue and start reading! You'll be better informed as you manage your yard or hike in a nature area near you. You'll be able to see the signs of various diseases and invasive insects and begin to understand what the future holds.

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Eightmile Wild & Scenic River Watershed

30/11/2024

A subscription to Estuary magazine makes a great gift! We're all about the Connecticut River, its watershed, science & conservation, wildlife, history and culture, recreation, and the people who are making it happen. Give a gift that lasts all year, is educational, and fun! Just $40/yr for print + digital.

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28/11/2024

Thank you for your patronage and support this past year! We're looking forward to sharing with you more compelling stories about the Connecticut River and its watershed in the coming year. Your support makes it possible! We thank our subscribers, advertisers, River Partners, and our writers and columnists—all of the people and organizations that care about the river, clean water, and healthy habitat throughout the watershed.

25/11/2024

Holiday events start next weekend! Check out this fan favorite from our River Partner Florence Griswold Museum

22/11/2024

The winter issue is arriving in subscribers' mailboxes. The website will be updated and the issue available to digital-only subscribers on December 1! You can subscribe any time to get digital access to the issue (only $20/yr) and our entire back catalog—5 years of stories about the Connecticut River and watershed! Feature writers and columnists who are experts in their field. $40/yr gets you digital access to Winter, the back catalog, and the print issue starting with Spring 2025.

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