Sitting, as I do often these days, surveying this world around me, I am without fail moved with a full measure of awe by how much LIFE I can see when I look upon the tidal Maine river I live on. I can see nearly six miles of it, up and down, and what most strikes me is the trees – millions and millions of trees, leafy and needled, standing amid ferns and mosses, bark patched with lichens, holed by and home to birds and mammals and zillions of insects, all here within my view.| Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
Sisters Martha, Emily, and Elizabeth Ehrenfeld recently donated a conservation easement to Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust, wishing to conserve important habitat and protect water quality on their shared 45-acre property […] The post Family gift protects habitat and water quality on Muscongus Pond in Bremen appeared first on Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust.| Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
“Arrival,” in a word, is the much-anticipated moment of reaching one’s destination at the end of a long journey, when at last the journey itself is over... but before getting settled into established routine. Theoretically, it is only a point in time, say 6:23 in the evening, but in reality, it will last anywhere from several minutes to an hour or two. The post Summer Arrival in a Nutshell appeared first on Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust.| Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
Every year there's something. This year it's foxes. I've never seen so many in my life. Generally, I see them at dawn or dusk - fleeting glimpses of golden-red flashing across the road. Sometimes it's just a pointy face with big ears, peering at me through the meadowsweet at the edge of the field. Or sometimes it's a long shadow trotting down the road in the moonlight, silent, almost a figment of the imagination. The post A Fox Hound She Ain’t appeared first on Coastal Rivers Conservation T...| Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
Our friends at Maine Kayak are offering current Coastal Rivers members a 10% discount on half-day sea kayaking trips to Witch Island! The post For members only: discounted kayak tours appeared first on Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust.| Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
On April 28, we closed on the purchase of our largest independent acquisition to date in the Town of Newcastle! The 270-acre Deer Meadow Brook Preserve is part of a block of nearly 4,700 acres of undeveloped wildlife habitat along Deer Meadow Brook. The post Coastal Rivers expands River~Link corridor along Deer Meadow Brook in Newcastle appeared first on Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust.| Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
Just point me down a long white beach and let me go. If it stretches far enough, I will walk forever. That's the truth. I must have beachcombers’ blood in me. It's something I’ll never tire of. The post Give Me a Beach appeared first on Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust.| Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
Property owners have a significant role to play in the control of hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), an aphid-like insect that feeds by sucking sap from hemlocks. Join Education Director Sarah Gladu and Stewardship Director Brad Weigel of Coastal Rivers and entomologist Colleen Teerling of the Maine Forest Service to learn how to identify HWA, how to determine appropriate control measures, and what Coastal Rivers and other groups are doing throughout the region to protect hemlock trees.| Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
A Community-Supported Land Trust Caring for the lands and waters you love in the Damariscotta-Pemaquid region A Community-Supported Land Trust Caring for the lands and waters you love in the […]| Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
If I were not what I am, a man with expectations of a measure of civilized amenities, warm meals and running water, a roof and four walls and a heated space within, a lamp to read by and, perhaps, the means to record my thoughts, I do feel I could find comfort and contentment in the winter barn.| Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
Company was coming, and I was told to go out and pick some flowers to spruce up the house. "Get lupines," I heard as the screen door slammed behind me. So, I did. I filled a whole bucket with them, as many different colors as I could find.| Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
In my determination to see spring in, “proper,” as they say, I need to get my mind, body and biorhythm in sync with the season. But that's no problem for me; if there's one thing I'm good at, it's riding out a full-blown case of spring fever.| Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
There once was a man who worked every day deep down in the bowels of a great city building. His name was Mr. Trudgeworthy. Though he had done this job for years, he had never fully adjusted to his daily surroundings; they got him down, and he was not a very happy man any more.| Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
In mid-November I received an email from Anne Tibbetts, a fourth-grade teacher at Great Salt Bay School (GSB), who wrote, “Thank you both for putting up with our boisterous group. They do get so much out of the experience. I found some cool related material about what we learned today and I will extend it in the classroom.”| Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
We've been having a little trouble out on the badminton court lately; the games have been getting a bit rowdy, and today's equipment just doesn't seem to stand up to our brand of badminton. The rackets are bending, the strings are snapping, and the shuttlecocks, or birdies, are either getting stuck in the racket strings or their little red rubber tips are falling off and getting walloped into the woods. It kind of breaks up the pace of the game when you have to keep stopping to fix stuff, and...| Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
There has been a preponderance of flattened out rodents on the roads of late. Some are brown, some are gray, and some have quills, but they are all quite flat. It's too bad. My suspicion is that, in their buck-toothed way, they are all victims of a spring wanderlust that is quite possibly connected to another kind of lust. (...)Read more ›| Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
Waiting for spring to come is in many ways similar to watching a pot put on to boil. There's the long period of finger drumming, of looking and listening for sure signs that something's happening. But spring itself is more like the cat at the door; it'll come in when it's good and ready and not a minute sooner. You can stand there half your life holding the door open. Long waits can get pretty maddening though, and many's the cat who's had a door slammed in its face for taking too long.| Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
About the full of the Moon, it is reported more babies are born than during the rest of the month. Dogs and werewolves have a glint in their eye and howl a lot. The tides swell to their maximum. Storms blow harder than ever, and cold weather streams down upon us with a vengeance. The full of the Moon is the time for extremes. At least on average that is what the records show. I have to agree it certainly seems so to me. But one can wonder if what we interpret as extremes of weather and strang...| Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust
