The Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability

By Vivian Eyre Ode to the Cold-Stunned Sea Turtle Every year, volunteers search for cold-stunned sea turtles stranded on Long Island’s east end beaches. In 2019, they found 85 cold stunned sea turtles, only 32 survived.                                         […]

By Kevin Daley As a child in Massachusetts, I sought peace and joy in nature. My mother was the daughter of a prominent ornithologist, and through family influence, I developed a particular interest in the outdoors. My grandfather had been deeply involved in the preservation of two beloved natural places of my youth: the Monomoy […]

By Lucas Kellett Department of Anthropology, University of Maine at Farmington   My journey into university sustainability was in many ways haphazard if not fortuitous, yet it is one of the most interesting professional and personal experiences I have ever had. As an undergraduate in the 1990s I studied Anthropology and Environmental Studies, when conservation […]

By Andrew Miller   In 2019 the town of Stonington, on Deer Isle, Maine, initiated a study designed to identify and protect municipally-owned infrastructure—roads, sewer lines, pumping plants—from high water caused by climate-induced coastal flooding. The project was funded by a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and will be completed in 2021. […]

By Matt Bernier Isleboro by Ice 1835, Feb.8.  Bay frozen to the outermost islands.  Sleighs passed and repassed across the bay until March.  J.Y. McClintock was the first to venture by this mode of conveyance to Islesboro’, after which many others followed his example. History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine […]

Ed Nadeau Associate Professor of Art Department of Art, University of Maine Honors Preceptor Artist Statement These paintings are based on observations that are inspired by daily walks in the woods near my home. The unique natural ecosystems that I am depicting are sources of light infused, textural forms that offer poetic nonobjective relationships. For […]

By Paloma Henriques MS Marine Policy Student School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine   sitting on the seashore  of my mind’s edge wondering at paranoia, fear, joy, sadness, contentment and all the myriad waves  lapping against the coarse sand of my synapses thoughts, like seals, wriggle  their blubbery shapes into my consciousness marking a trail […]