The Wrack

What will the next five, ten, even the next thirty years look like here at your local national estuarine research reserve?

A defenseless nest, an unleashed dog, and in twenty seconds, tragedy.

Alas, dogs have been barred from the Wells Reserve trails since the early 90's. Why? The short answer is: to preserve nature. But here's my longer answer.

Let 2013 be a year marked not by continued division and hot air, but by common ground and cooler heads.

Here are the top-ranked essays submitted by the winners of the 50th anniversary Silent Spring essay contest. Thank you to these and the other 257 Maine seventh graders who submitted essays.

Strangely for a New England farmhouse in the holiday season, the windows in this picture are mostly dark. I'll explain why at the end of this post.