By Brian Fitzgerald, special to The Conway Daily Sun
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Bison were hunted for thousands of years on the Great Plains before populations collapsed to near extinction due to overexploitation in the late 1800s.
The Southern Plains states get a severe drought about once a decade, but long-lasting droughts lately have been leaving farms, rangeland and water sources with too little time to recover.
CONWAY — Snowpack analysis shows shrinking snowfall totals in the face of climate change but ski areas are learning to adjust.
CONWAY — Last weekend’s 16-inch-plus powder snowstorm was welcomed by New Hampshire’s winter sports industry.
By Brian Fitzgerald, Special to the Conway Daily Sun
Life-sustaining groundwater isn’t so far beneath our shoes, but knowledge about it, and the underground world it flows through, can feel far away. In some cases, “we know more about distant star systems than we know about the interior of our own planet,” said Mike Howley, a senior geoscientist with the New Hampshire Geological Survey, […]
More than 200 wells went dry in New Hampshire during this year’s historic drought. With similarly sporadic precipitation trends predicted to continue, what that means for drinking water reliability in the state is still unclear — and the cost of coping is continuing to rise. In response to widespread reports of dry wells and associated […]
By Brian Fitzgerald, special to The Conway Daily Sun
By Matt Maloney, Special to The Conway Daily Sun