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26/09/2025

Looking for a great fall leaf-peeping outing? Check out John Burk's Fall issue story about exploring the West River in southeastern Vermont, "the Connecticut River’s second-largest tributary in Vermont. Ascending steadily into the heart of the southern Green Mountains, the route winds past fog-shrouded hollows; steep, wooded slopes; classic New England villages; waterfalls; and covered bridges."

Find out where to stop for scenic views, hiking, bird-watching, and more. Visit Estuarymagazine.com to subscribe today!

Story and photos John Burk Photography .

23/09/2025

It's swallow murmuration season—that magical time to come see the swallows swoop in formation over the Connecticut River estuary. Read Catherine Flanagan's poem in the current Fall 2025 issue, book a tour with our River Partner Connecticut River Museum, or read our back issue story by David Holahan at the free link below:

https://www.estuarymagazine.com/2020/09/a-great-gathering/

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21/09/2025

Help out our River Partners Connecticut River Conservancy and Great Meadows Conservation Trust with the Source to Sea cleanup on September 26 & 27. This is such an important annual event. It's amazing what gets dragged out of the river (and tributaries) every year thanks to the volunteers who sign up and turn up.

https://www.ctriver.org/source-to-sea-cleanup

Get news from all of our River Partners in every issue—information you need to be informed about conservation, recreation opportunities on the Connecticut River, and more. Subscribe at estuarymagazine.com.

photo courtesy of https://sourcetoseacleanup.org.

17/09/2025

Does getting up at dawn and heading out to learn to row on the Connecticut River sound fun? Find out how you can do it with Riverfront Recapture from someone who did!

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14/09/2025

Fall feature story! From our newest River Partner, , an important story about why biodiversity matters and what's happening here in the Connecticut River Watershed.

This is our free sample story. Find it under the Sample of the Current Issue tab at estuarymagazine.com

11/09/2025

Fall feature story! The fascinating tale of how Frank DiNardi studied a barred owl family in his father's back yard—from nesting, to hatching, to fledging.

Access the story online with a subscription. $40/yr to get Fall issue access online and start your print subscription with Winter 2025-2026—plus all of our back issue archives online!

Visit our website and read one free story under the Sample of Current Issue tab.

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31/08/2025

Gorgeous day for a bike ride over the Connecticut River via the Raymond Baldwin Bridge—or a boat ride up the river. Happy Labor Day, the official commemoration of workers' contributions to our nation and the unofficial end of summer.

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Life of the Connecticut River

29/08/2025

We've received a number of complaints from eco-conscious subscribers about sending the magazine in plastic wrap. Our mission is all about the environment so how could we?

The decision to protect the magazine so that it arrives in the best shape possible came after much analysis. We elected to mail our magazines in recyclable plastic polybags. No new plastic is required. The polybag protects the magazine covers, front and back.

It's true this plastic bag can not go into your blue bin. But it can be taken with your other plastic wraps—like the plastic encasing toilet paper and paper towel rolls, dry cleaning bags, bread and produce bags etc.—to the bin at the grocery store, usually inside the doors or by the bottle recycling. Start a bag of plastic bags and wraps and take it with you when you return your bottles.

One of the challenges of plastics is that if we don't create a market for recycled plastics, then there won't be a market for recycling plastics.

We hope this explains our thought process and encourages you to expand your own recycling efforts to include plastic bags and wraps.

27/08/2025

The Fall issue is starting to arrive in subscribers' mailboxes. People are loving the cover image! We think the inside is great, too! 🍂🍁

Subscribe for access to the issue online; the website will be updated September 1.
We'll send out an e-mail to our digital-only subscribers to alert them when it's ready!

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24/08/2025

In their Below the Surface column in the summer issue, Steve Gephard and Sally Harold are on the trail of a mystery—Is it possible that shortnose sturgeon are living above the Turners Falls Dam? They write, "The bedrock falls there blocked the migration of the relatively weak-swimming sturgeon species even though salmon,
shad, and river herring got past the falls. … [But] in 2017 an angler posted a video of himself catching and releasing a large shortnose sturgeon, reportedly above the Turners Falls Dam—considered to be above the fish’s range. There had been anecdotal reports of other sturgeon observations above Turners Falls and even above the next dam (Vernon Dam just south of Brattleboro, VT), but most experts had been skeptical of these reports."

Find out how these two scientists followed the leads and what they found out. Did they upend conventional wisdom on the range of the ancient shortnose sturgeon?

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21/08/2025

Bill Hobbs's Wildlife Wonders column is so aptly named. In his summer column, he writes about great blue herons—specifically, where they build nests and raise their young. One might think a bird of this size (its wingspan is 6 feet) would safely nest on the ground. But no! In Wethersfield's Great Meadows, they "may have picked the perfect site, accommodating up to twenty-five nests high in trees in a swampy, small, forested part of the floodplain," writes Hobbs.

This natural area is under the watchful eye of the Great Meadows Conservation Trust. Since its inception in 1968, the Great Meadows Conservation Trust has been a leader in protecting and preserving the Great Meadows which stretch from Wethersfield to Glastonbury and Rocky Hill. In 1973 it played a key role in persuading the three towns to reject a proposed $50 million horse racing track which would have changed the landscape forever.

Find out more about great blue herons and the Great Meadows Conservation Trust in the Summer 2025 issue. Subscribe today at estuarymagazine.com

images courtesy of Great Meadows Conservation Trust

17/08/2025

From the Roger Tory Peterson Estuary Center's 10th anniversary celebration on September 12, to the Connecticut River Museum's late August - September swallow murmuration boat trips, to Connecticut River Conservancy's and Save the Sound's river and sound clean-ups, Estuary magazine is a great source for what's happening along the Connecticut River in every season. Find out in every issue's Let's Go column, or online here (access is free, but it's a good reason to subscribe!)

https://www.estuarymagazine.com/2025/06/lets-go-8-2/

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