Maine Audubon's Gilsland Farm Peony Gardens are a famous and beloved feature of the wildlife sanctuary. When they burst into bloom in June, the fragrance fills the air and the colorful flowers announce the start of summer in Maine. Every year we wait and watch and try to guess when the first blooms …
News & Notes
Announcing the 2021 Native Plants Sale
We are thrilled to kick off another season of plants sales, the hallmark of Maine Audubon’s "Bringing Nature Home” program. Our hoop house and farmhouse lawns are loaded up with thousands of beautiful, healthy, and organic potted Maine native plants. Just like last year, we launch online sales at …
Celebrate the wonder of trees in Maine Arbor Week
In 1978, the Maine legislature designated the third week of May “Arbor Week,” a result of successful lobbying led by a classroom of students from Dover-Foxcroft. They successfully made the case that the national Arbor Day holiday in April, which actually started as a movement to restore trees in …
Maine Audubon Invites Plein Air Painters to Apply for Brush with Nature
Maine Audubon is pleased to announce a very special event for this fall. In place of our annual Nature of Craft Show, we are inviting plein air painters to be inspired by nature at our sanctuaries and create art outdoors to engage visitors in the artistic process. Juried artists will paint at the …
Maine Audubon Supports Sovereignty for Tribes in Maine
Maine's Native American tribes are treated differently from the vast majority of tribes in other parts of the country. The federal government recognizes the inherent sovereignty of those tribes, meaning they are treated as a separate nation rather than as a state or municipality. Sovereign tribes …
Waterfowl Wizardry Runs in the Family for Maine’s Junior Duck Stamp Winner
Some of the nation's most impressive waterfowl art is created in a single, sunny studio room from a home in Biddeford. There, among the cluttered desks and tables, three women of the Lowell family—mom, Rebekah, and daughters Elektrah, 14, and Ariah, 12—spend their evenings drawing and painting …
Announcing the winners of the 2020-21 Junior Duck Stamp Contest!
Congratulations to all the participants and the winners in this year's Maine Junior Duck Stamp challenge! The young artists impressed the judges, who met on March 26 to review the art submitted by more than 400 Maine students in grades K through 12 taking part in this federal program. The Junior …
Get ready for springtime fun
The warm weather sure has people aflutter, and no doubt we'll soon see more wildlife moving amongst and between the habitats around us. With both our fingers and toes crossed, we're hoping this is our last season of offering strictly virtual programs about wildlife and habitat (may as well knock on …
Maine Audubon Excited About Kennebec River Wildlife Recommendations
Many species of fish travel great distances during their lives, and many move between the ocean and freshwater streams and rivers in order to complete their lifecycles. Unfortunately, dams built on those streams and rivers are like locked doors keeping fish from their required habitat. For centuries …