Monitors and a fisherman check lobster traps. Credit Andrew Testa for The New York Times

We like his simplicity, his tenacity, his practicality; most of all we appreciate the outcome:

Scotsman’s Mission Ends in a Fishing Bay Restored

HOWARD WOOD, round-faced and jolly, was happily counting the lobsters being pulled, measured and tagged out of the coastal waters he has worked for years to protect. One weighed close to four pounds, its huge right claw dwarfing its left, which was growing back after what must have been quite a battle. Continue reading →