a wide blue river flows through forest banks with a rocky shoreline in foreground sprinkled with dry brown grasses

The meaning of sustenance

For thousands of years, Wabanaki people were sustained by “sea run” fish that moved between rivers and the ocean. Fish…

a path leads through tall grass toward blue sky and an old wooden building with windows overlooking the bay

Greens gone wild

On a hot morning in late June, the western shore of Jordan River in Hancock County teemed with wildlife. Osprey…

a composite photograph of oyster shells in a birchbark bowl, with seaweed and pine branches and a bit of fire

Gifts from former shores

As fixed as it may seem, rockbound and cliffed, the shoreline of Mount Desert Island, Maine, is ever-changing. The boundary…

Leftover Forests

Completed in 2023, Triangle Park in Cambridge, Massachusetts is a new green space in a city striving to increase tree…

The world according to ferns

When an asteroid slammed into Earth 65 million years ago, sending clouds of iridium-laced dust into the sky, it was…

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…