Against the Grain

A sense of urgency about climate change is motivating people from sectors as diverse as architecture, conservation, forestry, investment, and … More

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 … More

By mid-November on the Maine coast, the great migration of shorebirds is complete and the warblers and other songbirds have … More

The return of alewives, native migratory fish, to Maine rivers and streams is an annual spring event and the focus … More

In the 1880s, a group of Harvard students known as the Champlain Society spent their summers on Mount Desert Island … More

The sand, smoothed by the tide, glitters with flecks of mica and quartz. The beach ends at an outcropping of … More

Maine lakes are home to two evolutionary wonders of the animal kingdom, Arctic char and landlocked salmon, related species of … More

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

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

OTHER MIGRATORY FISH get more attention than the American eel. Salmon is the king of fish; the alewife, the fish … More