A few remarkable stats about the organization Friends of Acadia, and the work it does, from shores to summits.
Land, Water & Wildlife
Once upon a time, Santa’s sleigh guides weren’t such a rare sight in Maine.
Ed Pierpont has his sights set on parading another state-record squasher in Damariscotta.
One author’s obsession with Acadia’s unnoticed memorials and secret trails.
The relationship between the Wabanaki and Acadia is millennia-old, complex, and ongoing.
Acadia's new superintendent, Kevin Schneider, comes to Maine from a gig as deputy superintendent at Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park.
The Allagash Wilderness Waterway is one of the country’s more remarkable experiments in wilderness preservation — and one of its classic river trips. Today, with the number of paddlers at a 30-year-low, a trip along the Allagash is as quiet and sublime as ever.
Farming isn’t making a comeback on Whitefield’s Townhouse Road. It never went away.
Southern Maine’s lakes, ponds, and rivers are under siege. Invasive weeds, inadvertently imported on boats from out of state, are choking out native plants, starving fish of oxygen, and restricting boat access.
A brutal winter tests an icebound scientist’s survival skills — and her capacity for solitude.
Cold air flowing over a warmer sea gives rise to Maine’s rarest — and most beautiful — type of fog.
In our farmhouses and our fields, stories of the past still linger.