International Year of the Salmon continues! The story of the mighty Atlantic salmon made the cover of the Summer 2019…
Cultivating wonder the Rachel Carson way
Sheepscot River, Maine – To a girl who grew up reading poetry and playing in Allegheny streams, a storyteller who…
Understory: The Future Forest of Acadia
Maine is the most forested state in the nation, with more than 90 percent of the landscape covered in trees.…
Citizen Science and the National Parks
In observance of Citizen Science Day, here’s a story co-authored with Acadia National Park Science Coordinator Abe Miller-Rushing about citizen…
Committees, task forces, land trusts seek to revitalize land conservation in Maine
In many ways, Maine is a leader in land conservation. Much of the focus over the last few decades has…
Red Fox: A (Brief) Natural and Social History
When the news came today that Mary Oliver died, I reached my arm from where I sat and dug into…
Black & White: The Sea Ducks of Winter
By mid-November on the Maine coast, the great migration of shorebirds is complete and the warblers and other songbirds have…
