Sheepscot River, Maine – To a girl who grew up reading poetry and playing in Allegheny streams, a storyteller who … More
Category: magazine articles
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 … More
Alewives in lakes
The return of alewives, native migratory fish, to Maine rivers and streams is an annual spring event and the focus … More
Searching for Spelman’s Birds
In the 1880s, a group of Harvard students known as the Champlain Society spent their summers on Mount Desert Island … More
Why we love the ocean
The sand, smoothed by the tide, glitters with flecks of mica and quartz. The beach ends at an outcropping of … More
Ice Age survivors: a tale of two land-locked fish
Maine lakes are home to two evolutionary wonders of the animal kingdom, Arctic char and landlocked salmon, related species of … More
Fish return to a restored Penobscot
Between the head of tide above Bangor to where it widens into the bay at Searsport, the Penobscot River shifts … More
