Are you a 14- to 17-year-old who wants to spend time exploring outdoors with campers this summer? Do you want to build skills, gain experience, and have fun while volunteering? If so, we hope you’ll apply to be an Environmental Education Assistant (EEA) with Maine Audubon’s summer day camps for …
Environmental Education
Hundreds of students, hundreds of salmon!
May 19 may have been Endangered Species Day but Maine Audubon educators spent the better part of last week celebrating and helping endangered species by releasing hundreds of salmon fry, raised in part by Maine students, into the wild. Maine currently has the last remaining wild population of …
Bangor students see things from a salmon’s eye view
Through recent outdoor learning and hands-on activities, students at the Fairmount School in Bangor are deepening their understanding of watersheds thanks to Maine Audubon’s “River in my Backyard” after-school program. The school was recently presented with their very own salmon story “walk,” 12 …
Maple Thanksgiving is a Sweet Treat for Portland Kindergarteners
Maple sugaring takes patience—a lesson kindergarten students in Portland Public Schools now know firsthand. Students across the district spent late winter learning about maple trees and maple sugaring, studying maple trees on their school grounds, and in many cases, tapping those trees, as a part of …
Come visit our centers to see Atlantic Salmon eggs hatching
If you’ve stopped by the nature centers at Fields Pond or Gilsland Farm recently, chances are you may have noticed a few hundred new inhabitants: Atlantic Salmon eggs! Both centers are currently raising endangered Atlantic Salmon through Fish Friends, a program of the Maine Council of the Atlantic …
Get Ready for Summer Camp Sign-ups!
We appreciate the interest in our summer day camp offerings in recent years; however, as many of you know, this means our camps fill up quickly! For returning and new summer camp families, we wanted to share helpful tips on what to expect in this year’s registration process, including some changes …
Come mingle with wildlife this winter!
We are thrilled to announce another installment of our popular Winter Wildlife Mingle with our friends at Center For Wildlife, a wildlife rehabilitation and environmental education organization located in Cape Neddick, Maine. We started what has become an annual event as a way to provide adults some …
A Fond Farewell to Amanda Ives, the 2022 Davis Intern at Fields Pond
Imagine a job where you start your day by filling feeders for wild birds, then help to plan an after-school lesson for fourth graders, then recommend some hiking trails for visitors to the Fields Pond Audubon Nature Center. Next, you take a canoe trip, paddling out on the pond to monitor a loon …
Bringing birds into the classroom
Last week, as a member of Maine Audubon’s education team, I was able to do one of my favorite things: partner with students and teachers in the classroom. Two seventh-grade science teachers at Lyman Moore Middle School in Portland, Hazel Cashman and Margaret Paisley, were doing a unit on owls. …