From our September 2025 issue
More than a hundred years ago, a Philadelphia businessman purchased a swath of clear-cut forest in what is now Maine’s remote Hundred Mile Wilderness. There, he established a fish hatchery and a fox farm — he could ship pelts to New York from a Canadian Pacific Railway station at the edge of his land. He also contracted a well-known Bangor architect to design a pondside lodge and outbuildings partway up the mountain that would eventually lend its name to a nature preserve, established after the businessman willed the property to the National Audubon Society. Today, Maine Audubon manages the preserve, which abounds with wildlife, trails, and gorgeous summit views — and features a forest that has recovered quite nicely over the past century.
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