It is so easy to live in a place passively — for months, years, or even generations. I spent the first 17 years of my life in a small town in northern Massachusetts comprised of woods, whitetail deer, farms, and wetlands. At the time, my friends and I would often remark, “What are we going Read More
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My Maine This Week: Steve Cartwright
This week’s feature is a beautiful photograph of two deer on the shore in Tenants Harbor, Maine, taken by one of our regular photographers, NRCM member Steve Cartwright. Steve lives in Tenants Harbor — what a beautiful coastal town! If you haven’t visited, you should. Have you seen Maine wildlife in your town or in Read More
Celebrating Maine’s Bicentennial: Places of Inspiration
Maine’s 200th anniversary provides a unique opportunity to reflect on the special places we love. There’s the way the sun shines through a patch of forest in the hills and mountains where we hike. There is the sparkle of rivers and lakes where we swim and ply our paddles. There are many natural places dear Read More
Old Orchard Beach Piping Plover Project
The Natural Resources Council of Maine awarded grants to six Maine middle schools through our “Engaging Maine Middle School Students in Protecting the Nature of Maine” program, which we started in 2015. Each of the schools began their projects in early 2020, though due to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools, of course, have gone to online learning, Read More
My Maine This Week: Soni Adams
The New Year brings us a new My Maine This Week photographer! This week’s photo was sent to us by Soni Adams, a summer resident of East Boothbay, Maine. She took this gorgeous photo of Green Island, off of Ocean Point, Maine, just before Christmas. She writes, “It reflects the rugged, cold beauty of Maine!” Read More
Christmas Birds: Count!
Did you know there is an activity that you can do with 79,000 other people, all with the same common goal? Pro sports game? Going for a world record? No, it’s participating in a Christmas Bird Count! There were more than 2,600 individual Christmas Bird Counts conducted last year, 1,974 from the United States, 460 Read More
My Maine This Week: Steve Cartwright
Long-time NRCM member Steve Cartwright of Tenants Harbor, Maine, shares three beautiful coastal Maine scenes in this week’s My Maine This Week feature. If you would like to see another beautiful photo by Steve, be sure to contact us to request your 2020 Nature of Maine wall calendar and annual report. One of Steve’s photos is featured Read More
Insider Secrets of Some of Maine’s Favorite Birds
Birds nonchalantly drop clues into the mysteries of their lives as they go about their business of flitting in the treetops, skulking in the underbrush, diving for fish and other water critters to eat, gorging at our bird feeders, migrating, breeding, feeding young, and so forth. The revelations they provide can give us reason to Read More
My Maine This Week: Megan O’Donnell
Kennebunk Beach Sunrise by Megan O’Donnell “I live in Kennebunk and look forward to each morning sunrise. I make it a point to head down on my way to work. Every morning is a treasure,” writes Megan O’Donnell of Kennebunk. Do you have a special spot you go each day to watch the sunrise or Read More
