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October 12
Testing a new way to fight ticks on Isle au Haut
Multiyear study is administering oral insecticides to mice and deer on island
Darting deer is a challenge in a location where deer are not habituated to people. That’s why it’s handy to be able to call your neighbor and ask if you can set up by a window with your dart gun in their house. “I always end up shooting out of a bathroom window for some reason,” said Dane Stevens. “I…
October 12
Our complicated ties to puffins
Illustrated collection explores seabirds along Maine’s coast
Atlas of Kinship: Stories of Connection between Seabirds, People & Place By Alice Hotopp, illustrations by Coco Faber (2026, Littoral Books) Ecologist Alice Hotopp’s book, Atlas of Kinship, has…
October 12
The many perks of a daily walk
Aging on an island
Twenty-three years ago, when I was 50, I felt great about life and living on Little Cranberry Island. I was in pretty good physical shape and enjoyed going to social…
October 5
Marina rebirth and dredging improve water access in Brooksville
Reviving Buck’s Harbor
Jan Van Heek stands over his boat doing something he couldn’t do two years ago here in Buck’s Harbor: He’s topping off the tank of his 42-foot sailboat with fuel.…
October 5
NOAA adopts new Atlantic cod stock system
The fish are now grouped into four populations across the Northeast
For the first time, federal regulators have set catch limits for the Atlantic cod fishing season based on new rules that group the fish into four populations. The revised catch…
October 5
A brief history of Maine’s coast
Book recounts more than 500 million years of regional geology
The Rise and Fall of the Maine Coast: A Geological History from Formation to the Future By Joseph T. and Alice R. Kelley (2026, Down East Books) Anyone familiar…
October 5
It’s always oyster season on the Maine coast
A tour of the Damariscotta estuary
Humans have loved oysters for millennia, even more than clams, middens of which dot Islesboro’s shores. No shellfish midden beats the one in Damariscotta where Route 1 crosses the river…
September 29
A northernmost working waterfront
A visit to Siorapaluk, Greenland
I recently visited the village of Siorapaluk, in northwest Greenland. At about 77 1/2 degrees north latitude, it’s the northernmost human settlement in Greenland and one of the world’s northernmost…
September 29
Ask not what this island can do for you
A plea from a Vinalhaven summer resident turned year-rounder
I was a summer person for 63 years and now I’ve lived on Vinalhaven year-round for seven. I am surprised, amused, and sobered by how my view of summer people…
September 29
A song of ice and floods
Reflecting on 500 million years of Maine’s natural history
I’ve often wondered what it was like when glaciers carved out Maine’s coast and mountains.
Island Postcards
EPISODE 10: Keep the Light Shining
Two ambitious young women swam around the entire Island of Isle au Haut during the summer of 2019 to raise money for crucial renovations to the lighthouse.
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