The Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability

By Mariah Reading   A collection of painted litter and marine debris scattered throughout our Maine coastline. Through the extensive efforts of coastline cleanups, the Maine Island Trails Association has provided [Artist Name] with canvases ranging from a bike seat to a car door. All items were found within and around the Atlantic Ocean and […]

By Joshua St. Claire   Bio  Joshua St. Claire is an accountant from a small town in Pennsylvania who works as a financial director for a large non-profit. His haiku and related poetry have been published broadly including in The Asahi Shimbun, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, and Mayfly. He has received recognition in the following international contests/awards […]

By Alice Hotopp   The morning before, the nest had been full of fat, begging chicks. At six days old, they had grown large enough to be nearly spilling over the nest’s strained, woven-grass walls. Their bellies were soft with newly unfurled feathers, and plastic-y sheaths still covered the growing flight feathers on their wings. […]

By Sydney Read   I’ll Become a Whale When death comes            and if I’m lucky  I’ll go back to the water.  I’ll become a whale.    Watch me slip, steady                      Out and Into               […]

By Allan Lake   If my car is idle for a couple days, ambitious spiders create competing empires in uninhabited valleys between bumper and side panel or where seldom used rear door meets rear panel and even within springy trapdoor that opens to allow my car to drink fossil fuel so I can drive to […]

By Kathleen Spear   I was made to smile. I have big, soft eyes and a neatly sewn smile that covers my whole face. I have floppy ears. I have limp arms and a flimsy body with a long, fluffy tail. Cheap, faux fur covers me from head to toe. I am a myriad of […]

By Matt Bernier   Fontaine de Jouvence As an attorney, he always began with the facts— how many salmon he’d caught and their lengths— but after the first scotch the Maritime rivers turned mystical, infused with dancing golden light, as though the few extra minutes of daylight on summer solstice were a suspension of time, […]

Rachel E. Church Cyanotype is one of the oldest photographic processes, invented by John Herschel in 1842. Its name references the Greek “cyan,” meaning “dark-blue impression”. The process involves coating paper with a light-sensitive combination of ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide. Once the paper is dry, either a photographic negative (which produces a photograph) […]

Tatiana Vanaria The sustainable community in Maine pertains to creating connections and unifying people to the natural world. It’s fairly simple to get lost in the busy lives of our new up and go culture, and staying aware of the environmental elements that are substantially given to us can be quite difficult. Farmers in Maine […]

Jill Pelto Gulf of Maine Temperature Variability (Watercolor, 2018) Gulf of Maine Temperature Variability tells the story of increasing temperature fluctuations in Maine’s coastal marine environment. The watercolor uses ocean temperature data from the past 15 years to highlight how greater variability affects various species including ourselves. The piece also highlights the inattention to the […]