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Acknowledgments | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Authors' Welcome to the River | |
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How to Use This Guide | |
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A Typical Reach Description | |
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Boating Safety | |
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About the Maps in This Book | |
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Map Legend | |
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The River | |
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Map of Connecticut River Watershed | |
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The Four Geographic Regions of the Connecticut River Valley | |
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Geology: Grand Events in the Making of a Great River | |
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River Dynamics and Natural Plant Communities | |
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Connecticut River Fisheries | |
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A Connecticut River Valley History | |
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Animals Large and Small | |
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Vermont and New Hampshire | |
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Overview Map of Vermont and New Hampshire | |
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Fourth Connecticut Lake to Murphy Dam | |
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Land Trusts, Land Preservation, and the Conte Refuge | |
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Murphy Dam to Canaan Dam | |
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New England's Independent Republic | |
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Canaan Dam to Colebrook | |
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Natural Valley Flood Storage | |
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Colebrook to Bloomfield-North Stratford | |
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Log Drives | |
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Bloomfield-North Stratford to Guildhall | |
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The Connecticut River Joint Commissions | |
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Guildhall to Gilman Dam | |
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The White Mountains and the Presidential Range | |
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Gilman Dam to Comerford Dam | |
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Damming and Fragmenting the River | |
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Comerford Dam to Woodsville | |
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People of the Dawn | |
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Woodsville to Haverhill | |
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Rogers' Rangers | |
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Haverhill to Orford | |
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Lake Hitchcock | |
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Orford to Ompompanoosuc River | |
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The New England Town | |
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Ompompanoosuc River to Wilder Dam | |
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Wilder Dam to Cornish-Windsor Bridge | |
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Museums Devoted to the Connecticut River | |
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The Connecticut River Macrosite | |
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Cornish-Windsor Bridge to Cheshire Bridge | |
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Saint-Gaudens and the Cornish Art Colony | |
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Cheshire Bridge to Bellows Falls-North Walpole | |
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Agriculture in the Connecticut Valley | |
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Bellows Falls-North Walpole to Putney | |
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Invaders of the Connecticut River | |
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Putney to Vernon Dam | |
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Floods | |
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Massachusetts | |
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Overview Map of Massachusetts | |
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Vernon Dam to Turners Falls Dam | |
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Connecticut River Canals | |
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Turners Falls Dam to Sunderland | |
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The 1704 Deerfield Raid | |
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Sunderland to Northampton | |
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Mount Holyoke and Mount Tom | |
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Northampton to Holyoke Dam | |
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Dinosaur Footprints | |
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Holyoke Dam to Enfield | |
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America's First Planned City | |
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Connecticut | |
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Overview Map of Connecticut | |
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Enfield to Hartford | |
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The Greenway Concept | |
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Hartford to Middletown | |
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Rocking the Boats | |
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Middletown to East Haddam | |
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East Haddam History | |
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East Haddam-Chester to Essex | |
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Wetlands of International Importance | |
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Essex to the Sound (Western Shore) | |
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Boatbuilding | |
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Lyme to the Sound (Eastern Shore) | |
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The Ever-Changing River Mouth | |
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Bibliography | |
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Useful Web Sites and Contact Information | |
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Marinas, Outfitters, and Guides | |
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The Connecticut River Watershed Council | |
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Index | |
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About the Authors | |