The Parker River Clean Water Association was among the recipients of Massachusetts Environmental Trust funding announced in July 2015 for a Blandings turtle project in Boxford. Parker River Clean Water Association (Boxford) - $44,000 has been awarded for head-starting Blanding's…
The summer of 2015 was marked by a big data collection push to help identify and prioritize problem in-stream barriers throughout the PIE-Rivers region. In June, field crews began the arduous task of collecting precise measurements including bridge dimensions and…
Thanks to the efforts of several Pie-Rivers partners, approximately 1400 acres of land in the Great Marsh will be conserved in the upcoming months. A $720,000 North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) grant was recently awarded to the Massachusetts Division…
As part of the Great Marsh Resiliency Planning project, the National Wildlife Federation and Ipswich River Watershed Association convened a group of land conservation professionals and local Conservation Commissioners to take a look at places where salt marshes might be…
The king tide is the highest predicted high tide of the year at a coastal location. This year, the main Atlantic/Gulf Coast king tide date is associated with the full moon on October 27. Sea level rise will make today’s…
At the Great Marsh Symposium held in Essex in November, Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management staff unveiled MyCoast: Massachusetts, a portal to collect and analyze pictures and data relating to coastal storms. By accessing the website or downloading the MyCoast…
What makes a successful partnership? How can we utilize partnerships to accomplish common goals? These important questions were the focus of the first Parker-Ipswich-Essex Rivers (PIE-Rivers) Restoration Partnership annual meeting. On the morning of December 1, 2015, 17 partners including…
New maps produced by the environmental consulting firm Woods Hole Group will provide the Great Marsh Resiliency Planning project with cutting edge, fine-scaled flooding and sea level rise scenarios in Essex County. The model, which uses data from Mass Department…
Students from the Environmental Technology department of Essex Tech High School gave Plum Island a closer look this fall when they completed a field study project on the beach. Seeking to answer the research question: “Are engineered structures improving the…
As part of the Great Marsh Resiliency Planning Project, COAST, a coastal adaptation and strategy tool, was run by GEI Consultants, Inc. in the City of Newburyport. Task Force members identified the most vulnerable downtown area along the Merrimack River…