�Please pick up your binoculars, everyone,� Margaret Reimann says to the assembled group of fifth graders. She holds her own pair aloft. �Do you know what you call these if you’re a cool birder? You call them �bins.’� After a brief training and the inevitable using-the-binoculars-to-look-at-your-friend-who-is-two-feet-away, the students gather by the bank of windows in […]
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Diverse, Resilient, Intact: The Unique Nature of Maine’s North Woods
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2018 issue of Habitat magazine. Look up at night�and you see a sky filled with stars and planets, many melting into the expansive Milky Way above. Look down at Maine from the sky, and you see a massive dark spot, one of very few remaining on the night […]
Road to Redemption: Maine’s Bottle Bill Turns 40!
On June 1, 1978, Maine’s innovative “Bottle Bill” went into effect. Forty years later, it’s hard for many Mainers to picture doing anything with their bottles and cans other than redeeming them for their deposit. But it’s worth remembering that the path to this bill was long, winding…and lined on both sides by litter. Perhaps […]
A walk with the Maine Young Birders Club
Last November,�Maine Audubon staff joined the Maine Young Birders Club for a nature walk at Gilsland Farm. This became the basis for the feature story in our Spring 2018 issue of Habitat magazine (which you can receive each quarter by becoming a member!). Photographs by Ariana van den Akker.
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East Point Sanctuary: Where the Sidewalk Ends
On the outer edge of Biddeford Pool, tucked just beyond beautiful private residences and the spectacular Abenakee Club golf course, sits Maine Audubon’s best-kept secret: the East Point Audubon Sanctuary. At only 30 acres, it is Maine Audubon’s smallest sanctuary. But what it lacks in area it more than makes up for in beauty. A […]