Latest library acquisitions
Scott Richardson ~ 2009-02-03
The Dorothy Fish Coastal Resource Library recently added these books to the collection:
- Access to the Waterfront: Issues & Solutions across the Nation
- The Big Oyster
- By a Maine River
- Cruise Control
- Ecological Profile of the Hudson River NERR
- Gold Nuggets: Readings for Experiential Education
- Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment – Action Plan
- Incorporating Small Streams & Brooks into Developing Landscapes
- Kids as Planners
- Landscaping at the Water’s Edge
- Mosquito Bite
- Ocean Seasons
- Rivers of Chance: Essays on Early Agriculture in Eastern North America
- Streamkeeper’s Field Guide
- Toxic Pollution in Casco Bay
- Watershed Dynamics
- The Weather Book
We also added these videos:
- Eye of the Cyclops: Plankton Play
- You Ought to Tell Somebody: Dealing with Aquatic Invasive Species
- Summary of Knowledge Acquired in Northern Environments
Coastal Fish book is now available
Scott Richardson ~ 2008-09-02
Coastal Fish of Southern Maine & New Hampshire describes 43 fish species that live all or part of their lives along the immediate coast of our region. It provides an easily accessible and reliable reference to a fascinating, important, and often vulnerable coastal fish community.
This book combines results from local research and monitoring with information gleaned from technical journals, books, unpublished reports, and interviews and correspondence with scientists and fishermen. The result is a complete and convenient resource for curious naturalists and fish enthusiasts, a handy reference for the home, the classroom, or the field.
We are working on making the book available throughout the region and will keep updating our list of distributors.
Where to Buy the Coastal Fish Book (listed from north to south)
- The Book Review, Falmouth Shopping Center (US 1), Falmouth ME
- Maine Audubon Society Store, Falmouth ME
- Borders Books, South Portland ME
- Nonesuch Books & Cards, Mill Creek Shopping Center, South Portland ME
- Saco Bay Tackle Company, Route 1, Saco ME
- Nonesuch Books & Cards, Saco Valley Shopping Center, Saco ME
Wiggle Weigle’s Books, Alfred St (Rte. 111), Biddeford ME- Kennebunk Book Port, Shopper’s Village, Kennebunk ME
- Daytrip Society, Dock Square, Kennebunkport ME
- Laudholm Gift Shop and Book Nook, Wells Reserve
- Kittery Trading Post, Kittery ME
- RiverRun Bookstore, Congress St, Portsmouth NH
- and the Laudholm Trust website
Chloe Johnson of The Wire introduces the book here.
Robyn Burnham’s Journal Tribune story on September 30, ”’M’ is for Mackerel,” was featured on the front page above the fold!
Keep your copy up to date: Download the errata (4 Sept 08).
Have you seen the book yet? What do you think?
Suzanne Eder begins as Education Director
Scott Richardson ~ 2008-09-02
Today we welcome Suzanne Kahn Eder to the Wells Reserve. She is the new Education Director.
Reserve Director Paul Dest sums up why she was selected from a strong field of candidates:
Suzanne has the right blend of skills, knowledge, personality, interests, thoroughness, and patience this position requires. Her education and past work experiences point her exactly in the direction of this position. She has an undergraduate degree in environmental studies and biology from Dickinson College, and will complete her master’s at Lesley University in ecological teaching and learning this coming January. She was most recently the Science Coordinator at the Children’s Museum of Maine; before that she was a National Park Service Environmental Educator at Acadia National Park. She is committed to environmental conservation, as a professional and as a volunteer.
Envirothon regionals at Wells Reserve
Scott Richardson ~ 2008-04-30
Education Director Sarah Jolly-Ballantine reports that the Wells Reserve today is hosting the York County Soil and Water Conservation District’s Envirothon. This is the largest national science competition at the high school level and we are excited to have been chosen as the site to host the York and Cumberland county event.
About 60 high schoolers are out and about with 20+ teachers and lots of volunteers. Groups of students are taking “tests” at field stations located across the main campus and on the trails. Teams are tested for 30 minutes on soils, aquatics, forestry, wildlife, and a current issue (for 2008, it’s recreational impacts on natural resources).
The top three teams from today’s event will compete in State Finals in Unity on May 29. The state’s winning team will travel to Arizona for the national Envirothon this summer.
We’re proud to provide southern Maine teams with a great experience at our site while furthering our goal of being a resource to local science teachers and classes.
Have you had an Envirothon experience? Would you like to see more science competitions for students?
Installing Salt Marsh Loop interpretive signs
Scott Richardson ~ 2008-04-14
Eight new interpretive signs are being installed today. Seven are along trail segments known as the Salt Marsh Loop, with the eighth erected beside the native plant demonstration garden.
The Salt Marsh Loop signs answer these questions:
- What is a watershed?
- What is a salt marsh?
- Why are estuaries important?
- How do wildlife use the estuary?
- Who eats whom in the salt marsh?
- What kind of wetland is this?
- What are invasive species?
Wells Reserve education associate Ellen McCann oversaw the sign project and prepared most of the text. James Dochtermann did the paintings. Funding was provided by NOAA, the Horizon Foundation, and the Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust.
The new series of signs will be dedicated in a brief ceremony during the Earth Day Celebration on April 19.
In the photo, Ellen McCann guides workers as they place and level the “watershed” sign along the Knight Trail.
Spotlight on Coastal Resource Library
Scott Richardson ~ 2008-03-31
The Maine State Library is featuring the Coastal Resource Library at Wells Reserve as its Spotlight library through the month of April.
It’s as good a time as any to get familiar with this great resource, if you haven’t already been in. If the standard hours are inconvenient, call ahead and someone will arrange to give you access. And the library will have an open house during the April 19 Earth Day Celebration.