The Wrack

For the past six years, a team of phenology volunteers have been observing and monitoring plants and animal species at the Reserve on a weekly basis. Through this process, they contribute meaningful data year after year and have discovered a deeper sense of place and connection to nature. Read on to learn more.

One of the earliest signs of spring at the reserve is the appearance of the unusual-looking skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus). Learn more about this fascinating plant found along the trails.

View the Fall 2024 issue of Watermark, our member newsletter.

Its finally May, and in between rain, cold, cold rain, wind, and cold wind Ive been looking for flowers. It is enjoyable to be out, and there are things to see.

Naturalists and scientists have been keeping records of plant and animal life cycles for centuries. You can too.

Make more of your visits to the reserve by sharing what you see and hear through citizen science projects. Here are half a dozen ways you can contribute.

Keen observers of nature volunteer to track selected plants and animals through the seasons — and years — looking for signs of climate change.

The following was published in the Biddeford-Saco?Journal Tribune Sunday edition, 8/7/2016, and?Making It At Home's 8/11/2016 issue.

The orange ruffles hadnt been there last week, but now they were impossible to miss. Overnight, it seemed, a chicken-of-the-woods had returned to roost on the old oak stump in our yard.

Midway through March, early signs of vernal reawakening appear at the Wells Reserve.