Wind turbine blades stacked at the Port of Eastport.

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Putting the ‘port’ back in Eastport

By Tom Walsh Maine’s Downeast coastline is so far north and so far east that northern Europe seems just over the horizon. Which it is. Washington County’s Port of Eastport is among three deep-water ports on the Maine coast. The two others are in Portland and Searsport. Eastport’s Port Authority… SEE MORE
Quahog Bay Conservancy staff Alec Bolinger

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Sea to soil: invasive crabs turn fields green

KELLI PARK Sarah Matel, left, a fruit and vegetable farming intern, and Tom Prohl, fruit and vegetable production manager at Wolfe's Neck Center, empty crates of green crabs into the manure spreader. Story and Photos by Kelli Park It sounds like the elements of a macabre ritual—green crabs, a wood chipper,… SEE MORE
Leatherback turtle.

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Picking up the migratory cues

By Allison Carmen Before moving to the Northeast, I spent part of my undergrad training as a National Association of Underwater Instructors research diver. When we weren’t on assignment counting nurse sharks or sea bass deep in the Catalina kelp forests, my scuba friends and I could be found finning… SEE MORE

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​Considering the spectacular Sheepscot

By Catherine Schmitt There is a break in the ragged Maine coastline between Seguin Island Light and Damariscove, a widening where the Atlantic Ocean floods into a rock-ledged bay, and through a complicated network of glacial-scoured back rivers, side channels, and islands. As the tide turns and the wind shifts, birds… SEE MORE