The Wrack

Following are a selection of comments that were written in the Reflection Journal at EcoDay last Saturday. Visitors wrote in the journal after completing a self-guided solo walk with various prompts along the trail that encouraged being in touch with Nature. Happy Earth Day! When I close my eyes, I finally heard the birds. (HH) I heard a chickadee and I heard the ocean! I had fun on my b…

Thanks to all the runners in the 3rd Laudholm 5K. Here are the results.

The avian community at the end of March is not dramatically different than the one that has been around for the past few months, but behaviors have changed. The birds are getting noisier.

It was standing room only at the first live animal presentation during last Thursday's Winter Wildlife Day. Here's a look around the auditorium, where the Center for Wildlife, York County Audubon, and the Wells Reserve teamed up for a successful event.

The fall 2010 issue of our Watermark newsletter is now available as a PDF. You can download it here (3.5 MB).

The Woods Hole Research Center, with support from the Wells Reserve, has just put up a series of web pages focused on the loss of open space in southern Maine. Their intent is to slow the pace of development and sprawl that has been rapid in our region over recent decades. The site includes sections on farms and forests, housing density, and impervious surfaces. By showing maps and graphs of both past and projected change, the real and potential landscape changes become easier to grasp.

We are happy to report that the old exhibit pieces that left the Visitor Center a couple of weeks ago are now displayed at the Mildred L. Day School.

WELLS, MAINE  School field trip programs and public education offerings at the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve are getting a boost from a donation made recently by the Corning Incorporated Foundation to Laudholm Trust, the Wells Reserves nonprofit partner.