In the fall 2021 issue of Watermark:

• Pondering a Past
• Flotsam — Solar to Power Cars, Piping Plovers, Trail Signs, Benthic Ecology, Beaches Conference
• Nik's Notebook: Time
• Crustacean Compendium — Lobster Eggs, Supply-chain Study, Larval Zooplankton, Microplastics, Green Crab Movements, Blue Crab Occurrence
• New Art Deepens Portrayals in "Changing Landscapes" Exhibit
• Cottontail Release
• Students and Leaders Gain New Perspective in Camp for New Mainers
• Collaborative Learning Pioneer Recognized by Research Federation
• Sustaining the Saco
• FY 2021 Financial Summary
• 2022 Preview

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Letter from the President

The tree on the cover of your latest Watermark newsletter is a friend of mine. Its been marooned on the south bank of the Little River since before I arrived at the Wells Reserve at Laudholm in 2012. Like me, that tree has turned a little greyer in the intervening years.

Im grateful its spending some time within the reserves boundaries. Though the driftwood is starkly skeletal, its not, to me, a memento mori, some specter from the grave. Its instead a beautiful exemplar of this ever-changing world, temporarily moored on the Southern Maine coast at a place that devotes itself to understanding and protecting our world and to weathering its challenges.

Like that tree, visitors and partners of the Wells Reserve rely on this place to be a quiet port in a storm. I hope youll make a year-end contribution to Laudholm Trust to support the Wells Reserve and keep us that way. Your gifts help us prepare for the future (new electric vehicle charging stations just added to our parking lot), study the present (lobsters and larvae and crabs, oh my!), and listen to the past (especially from those peoples that have cared for these lands and waters for millennia).

You can read more about those efforts and more in the enclosed newsletter. Everything described within is made possible thanks to your donations. Plus, your tax-deductible contributions continue to match the federal support were getting to advance the Wells Reserves research, education, and conservation efforts.

Most of all, your support keeps this place a familiar, if always changing, haven in these interesting times. On behalf of all of us here, thank you so much. Happy and healthy holidays to you and yours. I hope you make the most of your time together, maybe even with some time spent at your Wells Reserve.

Nik Charov

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