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Category: The Champlain Society

A Summer of Science and Wonder

On April 19, 2021, the Mount Desert Island Historical Society launches a year-long celebration of citizen science inspired by the … More

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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