Anderson, Andy (aanderson) Materials

Canon-EOS-40D-Manual

The Quabbin Reservoir

Short articles about the Quabbin Reservoir, describing its character, history, and management:

• Wikipedia: The Quabbin Reservoir
• Quabbin: Land of Many Waters (Amherst alumna article)
• Quabbin Photo Gallery
• North Quabbin Region, MA
• Reminiscing Over the Lost Towns of the Quabbin
• Quabbin Natural Resources “Fast Facts”:
  Quabbin Landscape and DCR/OWM Natural Resources Management
• Downstream Newsletter (two articles)
  • Geographic Information Systems: Mapping Resources for Watershed Management
  • 2006 Public Access Management Plan Update
• Forest Forensics: Reading the Forested Landscape

A longer article on the creation of the Quabbin, restricted access:

• The Accidental Wilderness

The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority map of their water system, including the Quabbin Reservoir (the large blue-and-green area). Amherst is half way between the Quabbin and the Connecticut River at the western edge.

Short articles about the problems associated with invasive species:

• Controlling Invasive Plants
• Reading the Tale of Deer Scat
• The Spread of Non-Native, Fruit-Producing Plants
• The Forester's Archenemy: Oriental Bittersweet
• The Zebra Mussel
• The Asian Long-Horned Beetle
• Detecting & Controlling Exotic Pests
• New England Wildflower Society: Invasive Plants
• National Park Service Information:
  • Least Wanted: Alien Plant Invaders of Natural Areas
  • What the Heck is an Invasive Plant?
• Invasive Plant Atlas of New England: Early Detection

Longer articles on invasive species, all restricted access:

• Why Alien Invaders Succeed: Support for the Escape-from-Enemy Hypothesis
• Increased Susceptibility to Enemies Following Introduction in the Invasive Plant Silene Latifolia
• The Evolution of an Invasive Plant: An Experimental Study With Silene Latifolia
• Predicting the Geography of Species' Invasions via Ecological Niche Modeling

Short articles describing some of the problems associated with the hemlock woolly adelgid:

• Hemlock Woolly Adelgid: Forest Pest
• Combatting the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
• Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, Adelges tsugae (Annand)

Two longer but very informative articles on the HWA:

• Hemlock Woolly Adelgid on DWSP Lands
• Eastern Hemlock Forests: Guidelines to Minimize the Impacts of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid

Longer articles on the HWA, all restricted access:

• A Death in the Forest (a first person account from The New Yorker magazine)
  
• Landscape Patterns of Hemlock Decline in New England Due to the Introduced Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
• Forest Response to the Introduced Hemlock Woolly Adelgid in Southern New England, USA