A Missisquoi River Basin Blog

It is an exciting day for fans of Pearl and Pearl's Corner! Missisquoi River Basin Association's official fluffy friend and mascot Pearl now has her own sticker- two in fact! After one year of writing this blog, Pearl managed to find her way on two fantastic stickers. The MRBA team wanted to surprise her and got to work looking through several cute pictures of Pearl (many of which have been featured on this blog, bonus points if you can identify the specific posts) and were a

Each year, sometime between March 19th and March 21st, the Spring Equinox occurs in the Northern Hemisphere. In 2026, the spring equinox happens to fall on March 20t h at 10:46am eastern standard time. In preparation for this event, Pearl learned all she could about the equinox. Follow along with her to learn the science behind the event, it's history, and how people celebrate the spring equinox today. To start, Pearl noticed that the spring equinox goes by many names; March

In Vermont in the winter, it snows quite a bit. This winter in particular has been bitterly cold and snowy. Pearl knows that snow falls from the sky when atmospheric water vapor freezes directly into ice crystals within cold clouds which then form, grow, and fall due to gravity. What Pearl does not know is where snow goes after that. Follow along as Pearl finds out where snow goes in the winter. The Missisquoi Watershed has some of the snowiest spots in all of the state with