Creature Feature: River Otter

To encounter a river otter in the wild is to know joy. How could it be otherwise? “Otters are highly … More

Foxes in the henhouse: we’ve been here before (sort of)

The President’s Salmon is an environmental history of the Atlantic salmon and the Penobscot River in Maine. But it also … More

Portland Press Herald photo MAMMOTHS by Catherine Schmitt Snow plows thunder down the street like mammoths parading before the … More

During other seasons, you might call it a stoat, or maybe the more scientific short-tailed weasel, this small mammal with … More

Between the head of tide above Bangor to where it widens into the bay at Searsport, the Penobscot River shifts … More

Marten live across the northern tier of North America, wherever forests are dense and full of hollow and fallen trees, … More

On August 24, 2016, President Obama designated 87,500 acres of northern Maine as Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument. The … More

I revisited Adam Campbell and North Haven Oyster Company for Issue 5 of the magazine Collective Quarterly. The Collective is … More

At the Mount Desert Island Historical Society’s Annual Meeting on August 18, 2016 from 5 pm to 7 pm at The Neighborhood House … More

Here is a story from the archives, first published story about the first trail hiked in Acadia after first moving … More