On Earth Day 2007, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced MillionTreesNYC, a partnership of the nonprofit New York Restoration…
Changing the language of land
Some thoughts on how we talk about the world around us – words that are, at the very least, overused,…
Bangor’s Forest Scraps
Cities across the globe and here in the Northeast are spending millions of dollars to plant trees and increase urban…
Sears Island, Still and Again
Like clockwork, another Maine governor has put Sears Island at the center of industrial dreams. Which means it’s probably time…
Restoring salmon (and more) in the Skutik River
Ten years ago, the run of alewives in the Skutik (St. Croix) River hovered around 16,000. Though that’s more than…
Rivers of Ink
“How To Catch A Salmon” appears in the Rivers of Ink: Literary Reflections on the Penobscot, featuring a mosaic of…
The marshes are rising
Salt marshes exist in a narrow plane between low and high tides. For decades, coastal ecologists have worried that marshes…
The Fate of the Forests in the Sea
From Captain Cook’s Endeavor to Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance, the wrecks of wooden ships and their encounters with one of the…
On the road with the Dragonfly Mercury Project
In April I traveled to Texas to coordinate a science communication workshop for National Park Service and other federal agency…
Discoveries
Scientists like to use the word discover, as if they suddenly know something that has never been known, witnessed, thought…
Catherine Schmitt 