On April 19, 2021, the Mount Desert Island Historical Society launches a year-long celebration of citizen science inspired by the … More
Category: The Champlain Society
Nearby Nature, 130 Years Ago and Today
Nature is having a moment. Record numbers of people are visiting parks and conservation areas, overwhelming parking lots, crowding trails, … More
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 … 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
Science and the origins of conservation in Acadia
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
Sharing Stories of the Champlain Society
Given the Champlain Society’s contributions to Acadia National Park and the broader worlds of science and conservation, its no wonder … More
The Champlain Society Transcriptions
In the Spring 2015 issue of Friends of Acadia Journal, Maureen Fournier, a seasonal ranger for Acadia, and I describe … More
Students as conservation catalysts
This third and final (for now) article on the Champlain Society explores how students can be effective agents of change, … More
Visionary science of the “Harvard Barbarians”
The Mount Desert Island Historical Society asked me to write an article about The Champlain Society for the 2014 issue … More
Influenced by Nature
In May 1871, Charles William Eliot had been president of Harvard College barely two years, and a widower just as … More
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