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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 | |