Who would ever set out to paint the sea, especially here in Maine? How could anyone get it right?
Land, Water & Wildlife
On these winter days, missing my children and friends, I spend time with a part of the wild world up close.
A spate of attacks by rabid animals has residents of Bath and nearby towns on high alert — and choosing sides in an escalating fracas.
It took Daniel Jenning several decades and 71,000 specimens to identify them.
"Restoring a native species often means introducing it into an altered habitat, which comes with a risk of failure."
A flock of family and friends helped the late Peter Vickery's sweeping account of Maine's birds become a full-fledged reality.
The Peter Gray Conservation Hatchery, on the East Machias River, might offer the last best hope for saving the U.S. population of sea-run Atlantic salmon — the “king of fish.”
"When I saunter, I pause. I look around and listen. I give time for what might happen next. It’s a long, slow thank-you for the day ahead."
In Lubec, a new network of waterfront parks is the latest project by a global philanthropic foundation with an increasingly large Maine footprint — and an unconventional approach to conservation.
Today, both the hunt and lottery are widely embraced traditions.
The birds leave in their wake a strange summer, a time of despair and also of gratitude.
The author marvels at New Gloucester's Big Falls Preserve.