Join us for a deep dive into Sarah Robertson's (and the Montague Reporter's) reporting on the FirstLight Power relicensing process for power production on the Connecticut River. Scientists Ken Sprankel (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with the CT River Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office) and Rodger Gwiazdowski (Department of Environmental Conservation, UMass, Amherst) join us for a discussion on environmental impacts on the CT River.

Ken’s website, Connecticut River Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office: https://www.fws.gov/r5crc/

U.S. Fish and Wildlife service page for Puritan Tiger Beetle: https://www.fws.gov/chesapeakebay/saving-wildlife/species/puritan-tiger-beetle/index.html

Daily Hampshire Gazette reporting on Puritan Tiger Beetle: https://www.gazettenet.com/Puritan-Tiger-Beetles-26525449

New York Times Puritan Tiger Beetle article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/science/puritan-tiger-beetles-vicious-predators-may-soon-hunt-again.html

Sarah Robertson’s reporting on this issue in the Montague Reporter:

December 17, 2020 Page 1: https://montaguereporter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/December-17-2020.pdf

November 12, 2020, Page 1: https://montaguereporter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/November-12-2020.pdf

Other recent reporting on the FirstLight Power relicensing process:

https://montaguereporter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/November-19-2020.pdf

https://montaguereporter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/September-3-2020.pdf

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