“I’m the same age as Fields Pond!” exclaimed Brianna Guy, educator and naturalist at Fields Pond Audubon Center, as she twirled around last weekend in a butterfly costume. Her enthusiasm for the center was contagious for all who celebrated the 25th Anniversary of Fields Pond in Holden last weekend, …
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News from the North: August 2023
David Lamon has taken on a new role of Northern Operations and Programs Director, expanding his gaze beyond Fields Pond to include all areas in Maine’s northern regions. Read on to see what’s been happening at Fields Pond and beyond lately! Remembering Judy As you’ve hopefully heard by now, …
Volunteers at the Marsh: Meet Brenda McGovern
Scarborough Marsh Audubon Center is looking for volunteers! If you love being outside, talking to people about wildlife and habitat, and being part of a community of people with a shared love of nature, then this is the perfect spot for you. Center Director Linda Woodard says they especially need …
Fields Pond Update: Youth activities were highlights for June
There’s not much we love more than seeing young people experiencing the wildlife and habitat at Fields Pond Audubon Center. So our busy month of June brought us much delight, and with the start of summer camp, July and August promise to deliver more of the same. In June, more than a dozen youth …
Poets have power to connect us to Juneteenth, Borestone, and the land
This Juneteenth, we’re thinking about words. We know how much power even one small word has. No one understands that better than a poet. A few years ago, we hosted a wonderful event in which five poets read works they had written in response to paintings by artist David Driskell. One of those …
Behind the scenes at Borestone Naturalist Weekend
Just south of the North Woods, and at the doorway to the 100-Mile Wilderness, sits Borestone Mountain Audubon Sanctuary. Maine Audubon’s largest and northernmost sanctuary, it sprawls out over the slopes of the namesake peak from the old Bodfish station on the Canadian Pacific Line, near the …
Stewardship days begin at Mast Landing in Freeport
On May 12, thirteen students and teachers from Freeport High school joined Maine Audubon's properties department at Mast Landing Sanctuary for a fun, productive day removing invasive plants and clearing trails in preparation for the busy summer season. Maine Audubon partnered with Freeport …
New Nature Trail Improvements at Scarborough Marsh
A couple heading out on the Nature Trail at Scarborough Marsh the other day was delighted to read about the marsh and some of the inhabitants on an interpretive sign they came across at the trailhead. Little did they know, they were the very first people to see the new sign installed! Frequent …
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 …