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There's a scourge on the Connecticut River. It could threaten $1B a year contributor to economy | Environment

On a sunny September morning on the Connecticut River, Gregory Bugbee nudged his skiff into Selden Cove in Hadlyme and it happened again. He got stuck.

There's a scourge on the Connecticut River. It could threaten a billion-dollar asset

Scientists found a previously undiscovered, genetically unique and exceptionally robust strain of the invasive weed hydrilla that so far has not been found anywhere else in the world.

There's an environmental scourge on the Connecticut River

There's a scourge on the Connecticut River. It could threaten $1B a year contributor to state economy

On a sunny September morning on the Connecticut River, Gregory Bugbee nudged his skiff into Selden Cove in Hadlyme and it happened again. He got stuck. Two years ago, the cove was a magnet for anglers, a clear pond from which Selden Creek runs south through sunken meadows of wild rice and drowned oaks to join the river at the bottom of Selden Neck. Now you can’t sink a hook in the cove. It can ...

Effort to remove invasive aquatic weed from Connecticut River underway

Chester ― The Connecticut River, so often considered a line of division between the eastern and western parts of the state, has become a unifying force as local, state and federal groups come together...

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The Hadlyme Hills offers the chance to see the one of Connecticut's 'last great places'

The Hadlyme Hills offers the chance to see one of Connecticut's 'last great places' Peter Marteka FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 A stone wall along the path at the Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve.Peter Marteka / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less 2of5 A trio of mysterious stone structures along the Ravine Trail.Peter Marteka / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less 3of5 4of5 A view across Selden Neck State Park from an overlook at The Nature Conservancy's Selden Creek Preserve.Peter Marteka / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less 5of5 The Connecticut River has changed course numerous times since its creation 10,000 years ago when it formed at the end of the last Ice Age. One of its more recent course corrections happened in 1854 when a great flood turned Selden Neck into the largest island along the 410-mile-long New England waterway.