Chilmark names climate change working group
Updated 2:40 pm
Chilmark selectmen approved a six-member climate change working group Tuesday in an effort to address climate issues facing Chilmark.
The group was formed by selectman Jim Malkin, and is comprised of himself, town...
Your Martha’s Vineyard climate change roadmap
There’s no longer any question that climate change is real. Dukes County is ranked one of the fastest warming regions in the nation, and sea level rise continues to change the character of Martha’s...
Chilmark forms climate change working group
Chilmark selectmen voted unanimously Tuesday night to form a five- to seven-member climate change working group to address the needs of the town and to work with the Martha’s Vineyard Commission. Selectman Jim Malkin...
Series is focused on climate change solutions
A series of six climate change forums are being planned, including two in the month of October. The series is titled “Climate Solutions for the Vineyard: Be Proactive/Be Prepared.”
On Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 4...
Island must adapt to rising seas and stronger storms
Dutch architect and urbanist Matthijs Bouw says the Island will need to work across boundaries and disciplines in order to adapt to the growing effects of climate change.
Bouw, founding principal of One Architecture, had...
New federal report contradicts White House
On Nov. 3, 13 federal agencies jointly released an updated report that determined that global warming was continuing to contribute to sea-level rise, increased severe storms, colder winters, warmer summers, and drought. The cause,...
Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority gets grant for greener buses
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) and the Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority (VTA) have been jointly awarded a $1.2 million grant for low or no-emission (“LoNo”) transit buses by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA)....
Greening Martha: The argument for more working farmland and woodland
Widespread management for agriculture or wood production on the Vineyard’s limited land area may seem counterintuitive or trivial when stacked up against the Island’s economic reality and high levels of consumption. Shouldn’t the Vineyard’s...
Greening Martha: Managing a Vineyard conservation future
Our woodlots, of course, have a history, and we may often recover it for a hundred years back, though we do not…. Yet if we attended more to the history of our lots we...
A conservation future for the Vineyard
Massachusetts offers an unusual and urgent opportunity for… conservation. Following widespread agricultural decline in the 19th century, the landscape reforested naturally, and … has more natural vegetation today than at nearly any time in...
Mill Brook summer data points to deadly temperature spikes
Mill Brook begins its journey in the Chilmark woodlands and travels approximately four miles, crossing 10 dams of various construction as it passes through West Tisbury, before it flows into Town Cove and feeds...
Mycotopia: A tour of the fungal wonderland at Menemsha Hills
Rainstorms and gray skies this past weekend drove some indoors, but on Sunday an enthusiastic group of Islanders roamed happily through the wet woods of Chilmark’s Menemsha Hills. Poison ivy and ticks be damned,...
Life of a Tree: The cedar of Cedar Tree Neck
This is the third in a series of articles that will describe unique and old trees across Martha’s Vineyard — one tree for each town (March 9, “The Quansoo oak,” June 9, “The West...
Life of a Tree: The West Chop pitch pine
This is the second in a series of articles that will describe unique and old trees across Martha’s Vineyard — one tree for each town (March 9, “The Quansoo oak”). Each article relates the...
A dam removed, the Tiasquam begins to heal
Autumn meadowhawks — mid-size, red-bodied dragonflies — patrolled over sedges and grass on a recent mild autumn day, at noon at a freshwater wetland in West Tisbury. In drier areas, a few asters still...
The remarkable journey of the ginkgo tree began 200 million years ago
The ginkgo tree, several specimens of which may be found on Martha’s Vineyard, has a remarkable heritage that will be the subject of a talk by a man with his own distinguished background.
“People know...
