Former NRCM Executive Director and former State Senator Brownie Carson of Harpswell, Maine, shared this photo he took recently at Reid State Park in Georgetown, Maine. Look at that blue sky! Have you visited Maine’s coast now that the weather is warmer and days are getting longer? We would love to see your pics. Please Read More
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Steve Cartwright My Maine This Week Slideshow
Longtime NRCM member (and former staff person, too!) Steve Cartwright of Tenants Harbor, Maine, has shared so many beautiful photos with us over the years, that we thought it was time to put them all in one place in this My Maine This Week slideshow. Steve has traveled all around Maine, but these days likes Read More
My Maine This Week: St. George by Steve Cartwright
This week’s photo is getting us ready for spring to arrive in three weeks. After a lot of gray days this winter, these greens of a mossy pool on Clark Island remind us that spring is on its way! Longtime NRCM member and frequent My Maine This Week photography contributor Steve Cartwright of Tenants Harbor, Read More
My Maine This Week: David Small
NRCM member and frequent My Maine This Week photographer David Small of Old Town, Maine, writes, “For several years I’ve photographed the seasonal Purple Sandpiper at the Rockland Breakwater. It arrives, usually late fall early winter from Canada. It has become one of my favorite birds. If you’re respectful of its necessity to feed, and Read More
My Maine This Week: Steve Cartwright
As we get ready for a blue moon on Halloween night, we want to share this gorgeous harvest moon over Southern Island photo from earlier this month, taken by longtime NRCM member Steve Cartwright of Tenants Harbor, Maine.
My Maine This Week: Evan Wells
“Before heading off our different ways for college, my friends and I shared dumplings and bubble tea at this amazing spot in Portland’s Old Port,” writes NRCM member Evan Wells of Gardiner, Maine, as he shares his recent photo with us. With the unofficial end of summer arriving last week in Maine, what were some of Read More
Revisiting Trails and Revealing New Insights
One reason I love living in Maine is access to public land. I am reminded of the importance of the Natural Resource Council of Maine’s goal of protecting Maine’s environment whenever I spend time outdoors. When my husband and I find ourselves in a different area of the state, we often seek out a new Read More
My Maine This Week: Atlantic Puffins by Larry Mingledorff
As we say goodbye to the Atlantic Puffins as they head to their wintering grounds after gracing the Maine coast all summer, we wanted to share these stunning puffin photos by NRCM member Larry Mingledorff of Palm Coast, Florida. Larry captured these amazing images on Machias Seal Island. We hope you had a chance to Read More
My Maine This Week: Zack Porter
This week, on August 11, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the creation of Maine’s Ecological Reserve System. Ecological Reserves were created to serve as a benchmark for environmental and biological change over time; to protect habitat for wildlife; and to function as a site for research and education. Learn more about them on our Read More