To encounter a river otter in the wild is to know joy. How could it be otherwise? “Otters are highly…
Foxes in the henhouse: we’ve been here before (sort of)
The President’s Salmon is an environmental history of the Atlantic salmon and the Penobscot River in Maine. But it also…
Poem for a blizzard
Portland Press Herald photo MAMMOTHS by Catherine Schmitt Snow plows thunder down the street like mammoths parading before the…
Creature Feature: Ermine
During other seasons, you might call it a stoat, or maybe the more scientific short-tailed weasel, this small mammal with…
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…
Creature Feature: American Marten
Marten live across the northern tier of North America, wherever forests are dense and full of hollow and fallen trees,…
A New National Monument on the East Branch Penobscot River
On August 24, 2016, President Obama designated 87,500 acres of northern Maine as Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument. The…
Collective Quarterly
I revisited Adam Campbell and North Haven Oyster Company for Issue 5 of the magazine Collective Quarterly. The Collective is…
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…
Affirmation Acadia
Here is a story from the archives, first published story about the first trail hiked in Acadia after first moving…
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