Year of the Salmon

On October 30, NOAA Fisheries Greater Atlantic Region launched the International Year of the Salmon on the East Coast at…

Creature Feature: Rusty-patched Bumble Bee

In the garden, meadow, forest, apple orchard, and blueberry field, the bumble bees feed on nectar and collect pollen for…

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

April has turned to May, and the goldeneye ducks have left their winter home on the Penobscot River and headed…

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

Raccoons are omnivorous, eating wild and cultivated fruits, nuts, grains, buds and grasses. They eat rodents, insects, birds, reptiles, fish,…

This is harvest season, a time to prepare for the long winter ahead. In the city and in the country,…

The essay “One Letter Away” is included in the Three Nations Anthology from Resolute Bear Press, edited by Valerie Lawson.…

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

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