Spring-Summer 2026: Launch and book tour for Trees of Acadia!
8 APRIL | Talk of the Towns | WERU
16 APRIL | Reading from Echoes in the Fog at Poets/SPEAK! | Bangor Public Library
21 MAY | Trees of Acadia release party! | Jesup Memorial Library, Bar Harbor
23 JUNE | Inspired by Trees: The Revolutionary Nature of Mount Desert Island Forests | Southwest Harbor Public Library with MDI Historical Society
16 JULY | Trees of Acadia | Friends of Acadia Pints for a Purpose | Terramor Outdoor Resort, Bar Harbor
11 AUGUST | Trees of Acadia: The Past, Present, and Future of Park Forests (panel) | Schoodic Institute, Winter Harbor
2 SEPTEMBER | Trees & Democracy: Forest Inspiration on Mount Desert Island | Northeast Harbor Library with MDI Historical Society
Media Mentions & Event Recordings
Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life, Maven’s Notebook, January 2026
Exploring future sea levels with science, history, and art, MDI Biological Laboratory, May 2025
Portraits of Acadia, National Park Service
Acadia National Park Science Symposium, Schoodic Institute
Loving the North Woods by Karin Tilberg (citation)
The Pond of Life by Carl Little in Alive to This (citation)
Sea level rise and collaboration on Mount Desert Island, MDI Biological Laboratory, May 2024
All Rivers Lead to the Sea, Apparent Winds, November 2023
How far can a fish run, Island Journal, 2023
Imagining the Future Shore, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, June 2023
Science Writing: Creating and Sharing Good, True and Inclusive Stories of Science with the National Writing Project, October 2022
The President’s Salmon in the Bangor Daily News, May 2022
Atlantic Salmon in Maine, Frenchman Bay United, March 2022
Historic Acadia National Park in National Geographic, October 2021
Historic Acadia National Park in The Washington Post, September 2021
Science Communication & Engagement in a Rapidly Changing World, Schoodic Institute, July 2021
“The Evils of Flower-Picking”: Acadia’s Plants, Student Naturalists, and a Land Conservation Movement | Beatrix Farrand Society @ Garland Farm, June 2021
Blue Mind Discussion, Herring Gut Learning Center, May 2021
Landscape of Change, MDI Biological Laboratory, April 2021
The President’s Salmon in the Portland Press Herald, February 2021
The Future of Maine’s Trees, Ellsworth Public Library, October 2020
The Champlain Society in Chebacco Chat, Mount Desert Island Historical Society, September 2020
The President’s Salmon in The New Yorker, August 2020
Maine authors on Coastal Conversations Radio Program, WERU-FM, July 2020
Through Salmon Country, Appalachian Mountain Club, May 2020
Saving Salmon, Atlantic Salmon Federation, February 2020
Saving the Atlantic Salmon, WildFed Podcast #13, February 2020
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