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Fish Ladder & Lift Elevates Local Learning & Critical Thinking

Community-based educational opportunity available for all ages as fish lifts and ladders showcase a broad species of fish and the environmental challenges they face. Critical thinking is an essential by-product as children view the efforts made to maintain a river’s natural flow at the Turners Falls Fish Ladder and the Robert E. Barrett Fishway in Holyoke.

Category: Community Based Education, Franklin County, Hampden County Tags: Anadromous Fish, Connecticut River, dams, Ecology, fishlift, Holyoke, hydroelectricity, hydropower, ichthyology, Rivers, Robert E. Barrett Fishway, Turners Falls Fish Ladder, waterways

The Ripple: A Call for Biotic Citizens!

What Are We Going to Do Now Aldo Leopold was one of the shining lights of our long-awakening ecological movement; and he said that one of the drawbacks of seeing the world from the ecological perspective is that, at the same time you see the incredible beauty of the kinship of all living creatures, you also see the damage being done to our great shared life. He implored educational leaders to not… Read More

Category: Contributing Writer, Ecology, Kurt Heidinger, Take Action Tags: Anadromous Fish, Citizen Scientists, Connecticut River, Ecology, Environment, Massachusetts, Nature, outdoors, Pioneer Valley, Rivers, western massachusetts

The Ripple: The Future of Anadromous Fish in the Connecticut River

Connecticut River’s Anadromous Fish A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of visiting both the Holyoke and Turners Falls’ anadromous fish recovery operations with a group of intrepid high schoolers (Anadromous fish are born in fresh water, migrate to the ocean for most of their lives, and return to fresh water to spawn.). Holyoke has a fish elevator, which is somewhat unique, and Turners Falls has a fish ladder; both are… Read More