By Andrea Lani   Deep within the arboretum across the street from my office, along the edge of a field of raggedy wildflowers, sixty American chestnut trees grow in four neat rows. The trees were planted fourteen years ago, on a sunny but cool morning in June. My husband worked at the arboretum at the […]

By Erin Covey-Smith From the Author I live with my husband in Freeport, Maine, where I run, garden, cook, make art, and try to be a good steward. Through the experience and sense impressions of my lived environment, I write to explore the liminal, in-between spaces of a polarized world and to wonder at the […]

Photography By Xiaoxue Mo Spring Summer Fall Winter

By Rafa Tasnim 1,‡, Lily Calderwood 2, Seanna Annis 3, Francis Drummond 4, Yong-Jiang Zhang 5,‡ 1 Graduate Student and Research Assistant, School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, Orono. Contact: rafa.tasnim@maine.edu 2 Extension Wild Blueberry Specialist and Assistant Professor of Horticulture, School of Food and Agriculture, University of Maine, Orono, ME. Contact: lily.calderwood@maine.edu 3 Associate […]

By Charlene D’Avanzo Emerita Professor at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Introduction Environmental educators, climate activists, and scientists help people understand our climate crisis through a variety of approaches including newspapers, television, environmental reports, presentations, and more. However, in my experience as an ecologist and teacher, many climate change educators disregard an extremely popular and potentially […]

By James Brasfield From the Author For a number of summers before moving to Belfast, Maine, in 2018, I commuted from central Pennsylvania to Penobscot’s Morse Cove, a quintessential Maine cove with its nesting ospreys and a family of red foxes that foraged the shore among the stones and shells at low tide. I was […]

By Amanda Bertana and Anthony Ferrara Even as seas rise against the shores, another great tide is beginning to rise– a tide of outrage against the pillage of the planet, a tide of commitment to justice and human rights. -Kathleen Dean Moore Abstract In 2019, Reversing Falls Sanctuary, in collaboration with local artist, Robert Shetterly, […]