Alexej Siren, UNH graduate student, atop Mount Kelsey to study the resurgence of the American Marten.
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Siren waves an antenna, hoping to pick up signals from Martens wearing radio collars.
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A team of outreach volunteers searches for the homeless in Manchester.
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A Saint Anselm College student records President Barack Obama’s inauguration on his iPhone during a watch party on the Manchester campus Monday.
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In the first part of next week's series about energy, Sam Evans-Brown is taking a look at the legacy of electricity deregulation on energy markets. That meant spending some time with PSNH, the state’s largest utility, which was exempted from large parts of that effort.
Almost 35 years ago the American Marten was one of the first animals to be put on the state’s threatened species list, but now the slinky member of the weasel family is making a comeback.
The question is how big a comeback and on a January morning with the temperature someplace around twenty below, Alexej Siren is getting ready to work on that.
Siren is a University of New Hampshire graduate student working on his masters in conservation and wildlife biology.
On any given evening in Manchester, roughly 50 people sleep in hidden camps, under bridges, in cars and inside abandoned buildings. Despite the extreme cold, last night was no exception.
It was also the night a group of volunteers fanned out to count homeless people as part of an annual census.
They gathered at Families in Transition, a homeless services agency.There’s coffee, donuts, and also detailed maps of Manchester, with yellow Post-its marking places where homeless people often sleep.
