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The daring ladies of Lowell
Moving to the mill city of Lowell in 1832 to escape farm life, young Alice is disillusioned by the local factory's harsh working conditions and struggles to advocate on their behalf while recklessly falling in love with the mill owner's son, a situation that is complicated by a murder and sensational trial.
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Tidal Marsh Restoration Optimism in a Changing Climate and Urbanizing Seascape
Tidal marshes (including saltmarshes) provide remarkable value for many social (cultural, recreational) and environmental (fish production, water quality, shoreline protection, carbon sequestration) services. However, their extent, condition, and capacity to support these services are threatened by human development expansion, invasive species, erosion, altered hydrology and connectivity, and climate change. The past two decades have seen a shift toward working with managers to restore tidal marshes to conserve existing patches or create new marshes. The present perspective examines key features of recent tidal marsh restoration projects. Although optimism about restoration is building, not all marshes are the same; site-specific nuances require careful consideration, and thus, standard restoration designs are not possible. Restoration projects are effectively experiments, requiring clear goals, monitoring and evaluation, and adaptive management practices. Restoration is expensive; however, payment schemes for ecosystem services derived from restoration offer new ways to fund projects and appropriate monitoring and evaluation programs. All information generated by restoration needs to be published and easily accessible, especially failed attempts, to equip practitioners and scientists with actionable knowledge for future efforts. We advocate the need for a network of tidal marsh scientists, managers, and practitioners to share and disseminate new observations and knowledge. Such a network will help augment our capacity to restore tidal marsh, but also valuable coastal ecosystems more broadly.
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The dressmaker : a novel
A spirited young maid on board the Titanic captures the attentions of two men including a kindhearted sailor and an enigmatic Chicago millionaire and barely escapes with her life before witnessing media scorn targeting her famous designer mistress.
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Travel: WinterSpecial: The time is white: To kick off our winter special, 10 experts give their top skiing and snowboarding tips. Over the next 12 pages, discover what's new this season, places to stay, green activities and much more
I haven't been to Lyngen Lodge in Norway yet, but I've booked a trip in April and I can't wait. After half a century of skiing, I've racked up quite a few miles on the slopes and have been privileged to enjoy skiing in some obscure yet enchanting spots. But Lyngen looks like nothing else I've ever seen. I first heard about it in St Anton when Graham Austick, a guide with Piste to Powder, mentioned that he was building a lodge above the Arctic Circle. Back in my office I logged on to the website. I was mesmerised. The photos of the mountains snaking along the side of the sea, with not a building in sight, are amazing. My favourite place to do this is near the village of Sainte Foy in the Tarentaise valley in the French Alps, tucked away in the mountains between Les Arcs, Tignes and Val D'Isere. It is very small compared with its neighbours, but there is some amazing terrain that really comes into its own on a powder day - the majority of the resort is steep, and there are lots of little couloirs and drops to explore. It's also fairly quiet, which means that you don't have to race around to beat the crowds to fresh snow. The people in Breckenridge are ridiculously friendly, and you don't get any of the over-the-top, table-mounting apres-ski shenanigans you get elsewhere. But it can be pretty pricey in the resort proper. It's a fairly upmarket place - we went off-piste one day and found ourselves riding through the grounds of local mansions. For cheap accommodation, I'd recommend staying in Frisco, 10 minutes away and with half the prices.
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