nature Archives - Lewiston Sun Journal

Buck’s Ledge Community Forest holds first meeting

by Meira Bienstock October 20, 2021October 19, 2021

WOODSTOCK — On Wednesday, October 13, Woodstock Town Manager Vern Maxfield signed a sale agreement for the Town of Woodstock to purchase Buck’s Ledge property from Bayroot LLC for the creation of a Community Forest. “The contract will allow us the time to raise the money now to purchase the property,” says Volunteer Marcel Polak. […]

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Stop and smell the flowers

by Meira Bienstock September 15, 2021September 13, 2021

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Maine awarded $7 million to restore stream crossings on private roads

by Staff Report May 3, 2021May 3, 2021

A grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will help restore some of Maine’s highest-value aquatic networks from fragmentation and degradation.

Arts & Entertainment, Outdoors

The first comprehensive guide to Maine’s birdlife in some 70 years gets everything right

by Thomas Urquhart February 28, 2021February 27, 2021

Peter Vickery did not live to see his life’s work published, but ‘Birds of Maine’ – engaging, gorgeous and packed with information – is a great testament to a great ornithologist.

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Backyard nature: Swimming serpents

by Nicole Carter September 10, 2020September 10, 2020

Lots of snakes in the yard means I live in a healthy ecosystem so I’m rolling with it.

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Backyard nature: spring is a cruel season

by Nicole Carter August 27, 2020August 27, 2020

Spring draws amphibians to pools and ponds where they breed together and feed each other.

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Someone in Maine gunned down the last wild passenger pigeon

by Steve Collins August 9, 2020March 19, 2022

Though a captured bird remained alive in a zoo for another decade, nobody ever saw another wild passenger pigeon after a hunter shot one out of the sky in Bar Harbor in 1904.