NOTES ON SOME UNCOMMON CRANE-FLIES FROM THE WHITE MOUNTAINS, NEW HAMPSHIRE

1934 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 116-118
Author(s):  
Charles P. Alexander
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
White Mountains ◽  
The Past ◽  
Crane Flies

During the past decade a considerable amount of work has been done on collecting and studying the crane-flies, Tipulidae, of New England. Johnson's basic list of the Diptera of this area (List of the Diptera or Two-Winged Flies. Occas. Papers Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., VII; 1925) recorded 264 nominal species, of which seven have been removed as being synonyms or as being based on mis-determinations. In the intervening years, 73 additions have been made to this list, bringing the corrected total to date to 330 species.

Age of the Berlin moraine complex, New Hampshire, USA, and implications for ice sheet dynamics and climate during Termination 1

2019 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 80-93
Author(s):  
Gordon R.M. Bromley ◽  
Brenda L. Hall ◽  
Woodrow B. Thompson ◽  
Thomas V. Lowell
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Ice Sheet ◽  
Atmospheric Temperature ◽  
Laurentide Ice Sheet ◽  
White Mountains ◽  
Southern New England ◽  
Ice Sheet Dynamics ◽  
St Lawrence River

AbstractAt its late Pleistocene maximum, the Laurentide Ice Sheet was the largest ice mass on Earth and a key player in the modulation of global climate and sea level. At the same time, this temperate ice sheet was itself sensitive to climate, and high-magnitude fluctuations in ice extent, reconstructed from relict glacial deposits, reflect past changes in atmospheric temperature. Here, we present a cosmogenic 10Be surface-exposure chronology for the Berlin moraines in the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire, USA, which supports the model that deglaciation of New England was interrupted by a pronounced advance of ice during the Bølling-Allerød. Together with recalculated 10Be ages from the southern New England coast, the expanded White Mountains moraine chronology also brackets the timing of ice sheet retreat in this sector of the Laurentide. In conjunction with existing chronological data, the moraine ages presented here suggest that deglaciation was widespread during Heinrich Stadial 1 event (~18–14.7 ka) despite apparently cold marine conditions in the adjacent North Atlantic. As part of the White Mountains moraine system, the Berlin chronology also places a new terrestrial constraint on the former glacial configuration during the marine incursion of the St. Lawrence River valley north of the White Mountains.

The Village District in New Hampshire

1946 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 962-965
Author(s):  
Lashley G. Harvey
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
The State ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Outward Appearance ◽  
White Mountains ◽  
State Tax ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Town ◽  
Railroad Station

Although legally buried since 1891, the “precinct” in New Hampshire, like Banquo's ghost, continually arises to baffle students of New England local government. To the lawmakers, it is known as the village district; while in its annual report the state tax commission lists village districts as precincts, only adding to the confusion.In making a count of governmental areas in New Hampshire, one finds the state divided into ten counties. Within these, there are eleven municipalities classed as cities and 224 towns. The cities were once towns, but have been incorporated as cities by the legislature, not in accordance with a population prerequisite, but upon application. The first city to be incorporated was Manchester in 1846.All New Hampshire cities and towns include within their limits a great deal of rural land. Clusters of houses or settlements are sprinkled over these areas. Frequently, a settlement has several stores, a post office, and a railroad station and has the outward appearance of a village. Legally, however, such a settlement is not a village. It is administered entirely as a part of the town or city in which it is located, although it may be several miles from the principal urban center. New Hampshire has 639 such settlements, none of which is incorporated. Villages are not incorporated in New Hampshire as they are in Connecticut, Vermont, and Maine. Frequently they are referred to as places, but they should not be confused with the 23 so-called “unincorporated places” (found principally in the White Mountains), which are administered by the county and state governments almost completely. However, there are a few of the “villagelike” settlements within unincorporated places.

scholarly journals Late-Quaternary history of the alpine flora of the New Hampshire White Mountains

2002 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norton G. Miller ◽  
Ray W. Spear
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Plant Macrofossils ◽  
Cold Climate ◽  
Alpine Tundra ◽  
White Mountains ◽  
Alpine Zone

Abstract A distinctive flora of 73 species of vascular plants and numerous bryophytes occurs in the ca. 20 km 2 of alpine tundra in the White Mountains, New Hampshire. The late- Quaternary distribution of these plants, many of which are disjuncts, was investigated by studies of pollen and plant macrofossils from lower Lakes of the Clouds (1 542 m) in the alpine zone of Mount Washington. Results were compared with pollen and macrofossils from lowland late-glacial deposits in western New England. Lowland paleofloras contained fossils of 43 species of vascular plants, 13 of which occur in the contemporary alpine flora of the White Mountains. A majority of species in the paleoflora has geographic affinities to Labrador, northern Québec, and Greenland, a pattern also apparent for mosses in the lowland deposits. The first macrofossils in lower Lakes of the Clouds were arctic-alpine mosses of acid soils. Although open-ground mosses and vascular plants continued to occur throughout the Holocene, indicating that alpine tundra persisted, fossils of a low-elevation moss Hylocomiastrum umbratum are evidence that forest (perhaps as krummholz) covered a greater area near the basin from 7 500 to 3 500 yBP. No calcicolous plants were recovered from sediments at lower Lakes of the Clouds. Climatic constraints on the alpine flora during the Younger Dryas oscillation and perhaps during other cold-climate events and intervening periods of higher temperature may have led to the loss of plant species in the White Mountain alpine zone. Late-glacial floras of lowland western New England were much richer than floras of areas above treeline during late-glacial time and at the present.

scholarly journals Impacts of the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact on Supply, Retail Prices and the WIC Program: An Introduction

2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-82
Author(s):  
Charles F. Nicholson ◽  
Qingbin Wang ◽  
Daniel Lass
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Dairy Farming ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Wic Program ◽  
The Past ◽  
Local Supply ◽  
Retail Prices ◽  
The U.S

The Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact (Compact), the first regional dairy compact in the U.S., has been the focus of a great deal of attention and speculation during the past several years. The Compact was authorized under the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform act of 1996 and was enacted into law by each of the six New England states, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont (U.S. Government). The Compact explicitly recognizes dairy farming as an important component of the New England landscape that provides both cultural and economic benefits to the region. The Compact's stated purposes are to assure the continued viability of dairy farming in the Northeast, as well as its associated support industries, and to provide consumers with an adequate local supply of pure and wholesome milk. The Compact provides a measure of farm fluid milk price control in the New England states in order to help satisfy these goals.

scholarly journals Pre-Late Wisconsinan age for part of the glaciolacustrine stratigraphy, lower Peabody valley, northern White Mountains, Gorham, New Hampshire

2002 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian K. Fowler
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Ice Sheet ◽  
River Valley ◽  
White Mountains ◽  
Southern New England ◽  
Stratigraphic Position ◽  
Late Wisconsinan

Abstract Interbedded till and glaciolacustrine deposits in the lower Peabody River Valley near Gorham, New Hampshire suggest multiple glacial advances occurred in the northern White Mountains. Previous workers disagreed on whether these advances were local or regional in nature, but thought they all occurred during the recessional phase of the Late Wisconsinan ice sheet. New stratigraphic and geomorphic reconnaissance, however, shows that a thick and regionally extensive till overlies this stratigraphy and that this till was emplaced by the last full-glacial episode to affect the region, the Late Wisconsinan glaciation. The stratigraphic position of this till makes the age of the underlying till and glaciolacustrine deposits pre-Late Wisconsinan and much older than previously assumed. This change in age assignment for part of the Peabody Valley stratigraphy supports the extension of the Illinoian-Late Wisconsinan "two-till" stratigraphy of central and southern New England into the region north of the White Mountain Highlands.

Clerical Dismissals in Colonial and Revolutionary New Hampshire

1980 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-177
Author(s):  
George B. Kirsch
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Change ◽  
New England ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Changing Roles

Over the past several decades American historians have emphasized the importance of New England ministers as town leaders during the colonial and Revolutionary eras. Recently, several scholars have examined changing roles of Congregational and Presbyterian pastors from the 1630s to the early nineteenth century. Ministerial dismissals are an important aspect of this subject, yet historians have not given this topic the critical analysis it deserves. This essay will discuss the nature of these dismissals and explain their significance in relation to several broad questions of social change in New England prior to 1790. Although New Hampshire's experience with clerical removals was not necessarily representative of New England, that state merits special attention because it has been neglected in studies of this period.

Deglaciation and late-glacial climate change in the White Mountains, New Hampshire, USA

2017 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woodrow B. Thompson ◽  
Christopher C. Dorion ◽  
John C. Ridge ◽  
Greg Balco ◽  
Brian K. Fowler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Ice Core ◽  
Sediment Cores ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Glacial Lake ◽  
White Mountains ◽  
Exposure Dating ◽  
The North ◽  
Maritime Canada

AbstractRecession of the Laurentide Ice Sheet from northern New Hampshire was interrupted by the Littleton-Bethlehem (L-B) readvance and deposition of the extensive White Mountain Moraine System (WMMS). Our mapping of this moraine belt and related glacial lake sequence has refined the deglaciation history of the region. The age of the western part of the WMMS is constrained to ~14.0–13.8 cal ka BP by glacial Lake Hitchcock varves that occur beneath and above L-B readvance till and were matched to a revised calibration of the North American Varve Chronology presented here. Using this age for when boulders were deposited on the moraines has enabled calibration of regional cosmogenic-nuclide production rates to improve the precision of exposure dating in New England. The L-B readvance coincided with the Older Dryas (OD) cooling documented by workers in Europe and the equivalent GI-1d cooling event in the Greenland Ice Core Chronology 2005 (GICC05) time scale. The readvance and associated moraines provide the first well-documented and dated evidence of the OD event in the northeastern United States. Our lake sediment cores show that the Younger Dryas cooling was likewise prominent in the White Mountains, thus extending the record of this event westward from Maine and Maritime Canada.

Late glacial fluctuations of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the White Mountains of Maine and New Hampshire, U.S.A.

2015 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 522-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon R.M. Bromley ◽  
Brenda L. Hall ◽  
Woodrow B. Thompson ◽  
Michael R. Kaplan ◽  
Juan Luis Garcia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Ice Sheet ◽  
Late Glacial ◽  
Laurentide Ice Sheet ◽  
White Mountains ◽  
Northern New England ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Ice Sheet Dynamics ◽  
Complex Relationships

Prominent moraines deposited by the Laurentide Ice Sheet in northern New England document readvances, or stillstands, of the ice margin during overall deglaciation. However, until now, the paucity of direct chronologies over much of the region has precluded meaningful assessment of the mechanisms that drove these events, or of the complex relationships between ice-sheet dynamics and climate. As a step towards addressing this problem, we present a cosmogenic 10Be surface-exposure chronology from the Androscoggin moraine complex, located in the White Mountains of western Maine and northern New Hampshire, as well as four recalculated ages from the nearby Littleton–Bethlehem moraine. Seven internally consistent 10Be ages from the Androscoggin terminal moraines indicate that advance culminated ~ 13.2 ± 0.8 ka, in close agreement with the mean age of the neighboring Littleton–Bethlehem complex. Together, these two datasets indicate stabilization or advance of the ice-sheet margin in northern New England, at ~ 14–13 ka, during the Allerød/Greenland Interstadial I.

scholarly journals Deglaciation of the northwestern White Mountains, New Hampshire

2002 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woodrow B. Thompson ◽  
Brian K. Fowler ◽  
Christopher C. Dorion
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Ice Sheet ◽  
White Mountains ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Drainage Channels ◽  
Connecticut Valley ◽  
Late Wisconsinan ◽  
Climatic Cooling ◽  
Original Interpretation

Abstract The mode of deglaciation in the northwestern White Mountains of New Hampshire has been controversial since the mid 1800's. Early workers believed that active ice deposited the Bethlehem Moraine complex in the Ammonoosuc River basin during recession of the last ice sheet. In the 1930's this deglaciation model was replaced by the concept of widespread simultaneous stagnation and downwastage of Late Wisconsinan ice. The present authors reexamined the Bethlehem Moraine complex and support the original interpretation of a series of moraines deposited by active ice. We found other moraine clusters of similar age to the northeast in the Johns River and Israel River basins. Ice-marginal deposits that probably correlate with the Bethlehem Moraine also occur west of Littleton. The Bethlehem Moraine complex and equivalent deposits in adjacent areas were formed by readvance and oscillatory retreat of the Connecticut Valley lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. This event is called the Littleton-Bethlehem Readvance. Throughout the study area, sequences of glaciolacustrine deposits and meltwater drainage channels indicate progressive northward recession of the glacier margin. Radiocarbon dates from nearby New England and Québec suggest that the ice sheet withdrew from this part of the White Mountains between about 12 500 and 12 000 14 C yr BP. We attribute the Littleton- Bethlehem Readvance to a brief climatic cooling during Older Dyas time, close to 12,000 BP.

Hardwood Tree Quality Development in the White Mountains of New Hampshire

2000 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul E. Sendak ◽  
William B. Leak ◽  
Wanda B. Rice
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Northern Hardwood Forest ◽  
Quality Development ◽  
Individual Tree ◽  
White Mountains ◽  
Northern Hardwood ◽  
Bartlett Experimental Forest ◽  
Hardwood Tree ◽  
Tree Quality

Abstract Few studies in New England have related timber cutting in northern hardwood stands to improvements in timber quality. The objective of this study was to assess tree-quality improvement for lumber production from initial cutting in a northern hardwood forest on the Bartlett Experimental Forest in New Hampshire that occurred about 40 yr ago. This study used nine compartments on the Forest that were initially cut in the 1950s. Cutting methods included three diameter-limit cuts and six individual tree selection cuts followed by timber stand improvement by chemical girdling.The nine compartments remained undisturbed by cutting for approximately 40 yr. By 1996, average tree grade had improved in all compartments, from 3.8 to 3.1 for the diameter limits combined and from 3.2 to 2.7 for the selection compartments combined. Returns per acre of standing inventory were influenced by tree quality but also were confounded with compartment volume and species mix. In general, return of standing inventory in 1996, whether per acre or per mbf, was greater in the selection compartments, but one of the diameter limits had a significant volume of high value red oak timber that skewed its total value upward. North. J. Appl. For. 17(1):9-15.

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