Last year we introduced you to eBird, iNaturalist, Discover Katahdin, and six other nature-based apps. Read about them at www.nrcm.org/blog/apps-explore-maine. We hope you enjoy this year’s picks! Penobscot Mountain by Pete Didisheim 1. Acadia National Park by Chimani Maine-based Chimani designed this premier app for one of our state’s crown jewels: Acadia National Park. This Read More
Outdoor Recreation
Maine's environment offers many opportunities to enjoy outdoor recreation, whether it be paddling, bird watching, hiking, cross-country skiing, hunting, fishing, or other activities, Maine has beautiful lakes, forests, trails, and coastline to explore. Outdoor recreation is an important part of Maine's economy as well as a reason for Maine to preserve and protect as much public land as we can, so it is available for us to enjoy now, as well as for future generations.
My Maine This Week: Linda Woods
This week’s My Maine This Week feature is from our frequent photographer and NRCM member Linda Woods of Waterville, Maine. Linda and her husband, Harry, enjoyed a hike of Borestone Mountain in Piscataquis County. If her beautiful photos inspire you to take a trip to do this hike, be sure to visit Maine Trail Finder Read More
Protecting Maine’s Environment Means Protecting It for All
Like many of you, I have been shaken to my core watching the video of George Floyd’s horrific death at the hands of a white police officer. Floyd’s murder is one of several racist and hateful attacks we have collectively witnessed over the past few months, from the wrongful death of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky Read More
My Maine This Week: Benjamin Wells-Goodwin
If you live in Maine, then you know that this weekend had some of the nicest spring weather we have seen all year. This week’s photographs by Benjamin Wells-Goodwin of Denmark, Maine, show us how he spent some of his time in sunshine. Ben went for a paddle on Moose Pond in Denmark and shares Read More
Finding New Places to Hike & Explore Close to Home
None of us could have imagined that this year, 2020, would be so disrupted. Life, as we knew it, has changed for all of us. We seek the solace that nature can provide—now more than ever—yet it is our civic duty to stay close to home to slow the spread of Covid-19. For our family, Read More
Maine’s Fields and Forests Beckon Our Kids
On a recent early evening, my husband and I watched two young boys, poles and bobbers in hand, clamber down the far bank of the river in front of our home as the sun was setting, the river touched by golden light. Fishing season is beginning, thanks to Governor Mills’ decision to open it early. Read More
Maine’s Outdoor Spaces Offer Respite During Trying Times
In E. O. Wilson’s 1984 book Biophilia, the world-renowned biologist and Harvard University professor described an innate “love of life” that humans have, meaning, we are drawn to nature. In an interview with PBS, he said this intrinsic attraction is so basic that he believed most people understand it and that it’s slowly instilling a Read More
My Maine This Week: Special Edition
The Natural Resources Council of Maine’s CEO, Lisa Pohlmann, shared a message with our supporters related to the COVID-19 virus that has reached Maine and around the globe. In that message, she urged people to find solace and respite in Maine’s beautiful outdoors (while practicing important social distancing). We are fortunate that Maine has so Read More
Land for Maine’s Future: 3 Reasons LMF is about More than Land Conservation
When Land for Maine’s Future (LMF) was enacted in 1987, the program was remarkably forward-looking and a harbinger of good things to come. Over the past three decades, LMF has become Maine’s most important and popular land conservation program. But the program has not received any new funding since 2012, which is why we’re working Read More