A recent cross-country ski outing got Conservation Director Sally Stockwell musing about land use and land use planning in Maine. This is adapted from a column written for GrowSmart Maine: Last month, just as the dawn was breaking on the shortest day of the year, I clipped into my Nordic skis and …
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Introducing Salmon Shorts!
Just a few hundred years ago, Atlantic Salmon were abundant up and down the northeast coast. Now, Maine is home to the last remaining wild populations of Atlantic Salmon in the United States and they are a federally recognized endangered species. This decline has had huge impacts on everything …
Maine Audubon Remembers George Smith
In one of the many tributes to George Smith, who recently passed away after a four-year battle with ALS, George noted that one of his most prized accomplishments was establishing the Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund (MOHF), a specially-designed program that awards grants for wildlife and habitat …
Through the Lens with Nick Leadley: Photographing Winter Wrens, the Merry Songsters
Welcome back to Through the Lens with Nick Leadley, our continuing series on wildlife photography. Read the rest of the series here, and see more of his work at Touch The Wild. A quiet spring morning in the woods of western Maine. Not long after the sun breaks the horizon, a rapid trill splits …
Now Hiring: Environmental Education Intern (Summer 2021)
Location: Scarborough Marsh Audubon Center The environmental education intern leads educational programs on salt-marsh ecology at schools, remotely through online presentation programs, some at Scarborough Marsh Audubon Center and other locations through the end of the school year (training …
Outdoor Afro Binocular Drive
Spring migration is right around the corner, and we're hoping to help beginner or backyard birders this season by donating binoculars. If you have gently used binoculars, please consider donating them to Maine's Outdoor Afro network. Outdoor Afro is a community that reconnects African-Americans with …
Op-Ed: Legislature should take steps to keep solar development green
Note: This is the text of an op-ed column published in the February 4, 2021, Portland Press Herald. By Ellen Griswold, Policy and Research Director, Maine Farmland Trust, and Eliza Donoghue, Director of Advocacy & Staff Attorney, Maine Audubon Tux Turkel's January 4 article …
The 2021 Great Backyard Bird Count: Feb. 12 to 15
This is it, folks. We've spent a year trapped in our houses with little to look at except for the feeders in our backyard. The whole world seems to be on about how birdwatching is having a moment, and now it's time to put all that feederwatching to some good use. Coming up next week, from Feb. 12 …
Through the Lens with Nick Leadley: Seeing the Scene Within the Frame
Welcome back to Through the Lens with Nick Leadley, our continuing series on wildlife photography. Read the rest of the series here, and see more of his work at Touch The Wild. A fresh dusting of snow. Trees partially block the light of the sun. I'm in a landscape photography spot I have not been …