From our July 2025 issue
At more than 3,000 acres, this estuary is a natural treasure, containing Maine’s largest salt-marsh ecosystem, with an interconnected web of salt creeks, freshwater areas, and uplands. Birds love it, and so do researchers, paddlers, bikers, and hikers. The state now owns and manages the marsh, and Maine Audubon runs an interpretive center that offers a variety of ways to experience it, with guided walks and paddles as well as self-guided options and canoe rentals. Once, though, it was proposed as the site for a town dump. Fortunately, any whiff of rotten egg owes only to the incredible biological processes happening beneath your feet.
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