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By DAVID BROOKS

Many people have a favorite type of insect. Butterflies and dragonflies are perennial favorites, but you can find folks with a soft spot in their heart for almost anything, from walking sticks to dung beetles.Me? I like bumblebees.There’s something...

By DAVID BROOKS

Here’s one way to think about the latest effort by New Hampshire Fish and Game to support pollinators: It’s the skinniest environmental program in the state.The target of the program, which just got a funding boost, are the rights of way that the...

By DAVID BROOKS

Merrimack Station, the big power plant in Bow, is used to being in the middle of battles, whether they involved the half-billion-dollar scrubber, tax payments to Bow or the temperature of Merrimack River water.Now it finds itself in the midst of...

By DAVID BROOKS

Unitil’s electric service will be spraying chemical herbicide around 6.7 miles of off-road power lines in north Concord next month, and adjoining property owners have the option of declining their use if they have concerns about drinking water or...

By DAVID BROOKS

Bowing to the inevitable, Eversource has officially taken Northern Pass off the table.In a statement late Thursday, the company said that “after evaluating all potential options following last week’s decision by the New Hampshire Supreme Court on...

By DAVID BROOKS

Between ticks, mosquitoes and black flies, New Hampshire has no shortage of infamous biting bugs. Recently, however, it seems that deer flies have taken center stage.“They’re brutal,” said Deb Koltookian, co-owner of Outdoor Sports Center in Concord....

By DAVID BROOKS

When one of your childhood buddies grows up to become one of the most famous people of the century, you hear a certain type of question a lot.“Did we think he was special?” said John Blackford, responding to a Monitor query by looking back on his Boy...

By DAVID BROOKS

After almost a quarter century as an environmental education center alongside one of the state’s largest hydropower plants, the Amoskeag Fishways in Manchester will close next month and be reduced to a springtime observation deck for the dam’s fish...

By DAVID BROOKS

Right now the roads are icy and soon the dirt roads will be muddy – it’s that time of year. The question is whether they should also be a bit more rocky.“Sand was the standard for years and years. When I was a kid, we used to shovel it out of the back...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire has been trying for years to make people get rid of old wood stoves that contribute a disproportionate amount to air pollution, but a bill that would have forced the issue, requiring pre-1986 stoves to be destroyed when the house is...

By DAVID BROOKS

A plan to make it illegal to hunt coyotes while their pups are still young has been rejected by a House committee that balked at the idea of legislators setting hunting seasons.Cathryn Harvey, D-Spofford, chair of the House Fish and Game Committee,...

By DAVID BROOKS

After a company has seen its flagship product launched to Jupiter, been purchased by a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate with plenty of plans for expansion, and had NASA double down on its main contract, choosing the next step might seem a bit...

By DAVID BROOKS

Almost two years after being purchased by a Quebec firm, Concord’s iconic Swenson Granite Quarry has expanded operations slightly on Rattlesnake Hill, even as it starts reconfiguring its approach to tackle one of the paradoxes of mining.“The deeper we...

By DAVID BROOKS

We’re all familiar with crime-scene forensics, or at least the TV version that is the central plot point for every single cop show, but I must admit the concept of cellphone forensics is new to me.Fortunately for a hiker who was lost for two days in...

By DAVID BROOKS

In 1979, or maybe it was 1978, Ralph Jimenez and Linda Graham got tired of lighting their off-the-grid home via candles, Coleman lanterns and kerosene lights, and they decided to take a high-tech plunge.Thirty-nine years later (or maybe 40, but...

By David Brooks

Fans of free-range chicken farming take note: If your chicken freely ranges onto somebody else’s property, you could be in trouble.On Tuesday, Gov. Chris Sununu signed into law a bill that adds “domestic fowl” to a long-standing state law that makes...