Category: Nature

waterfalls and pointy mountain in Iceland

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Fire & Ice

Fire & Ice Iceland’s Stark Beauty Found Outside Reykjavík on Ring Road PHOTOS AND STORY BY JLYNN FRAZIER Maine’s connections to the North Atlantic island nation of Iceland are stronger than you might think. Eimskip—Iceland’s oldest shipping company, which operates around the globe—is based in Reykjavík. Portland is Eimskip’s only… SEE MORE
person walking trail along rocky coastline

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Acadia’s Offshore Island

Acadia’s Offshore Island Isle au Haut includes 18 miles of national park trails. By Abigail Curtis Photos by Scott Sell For generations, Kendra Chubbuck’s family has called the dark spruce forests, cobble beaches, and rocky cliffs of Isle au Haut home. Chubbuck, who moved to the offshore island full-time about… SEE MORE
illustration of boy and seal

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A Tidal Joy Ride

ILLUSTRATIONS BY SCOTT NASH Elias and Drew donned the life jackets they’d selected from the wide assortment found in the barn and scurried out onto the line of rocks and ledges that constituted a little jetty at the head of the rapids. Twelve-year-old Elias had been coming to Vinalhaven from… SEE MORE
Woman sketching on a hill overlooking ocean

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The Legacy of Ireland’s Great Blasket Island

A Community Unraveled: The Legacy of Ireland’s Great Blasket Island STORY AND PHOTOS BY KATHLEEN WALSH BUCHANAN The Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland, is a landscape of spare and emotive beauty. It is a rugged place of stone-walled fields climbing mountainsides to the limits of tillable land, where the… SEE MORE

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Dialed Back in Time

Dialed Back in Time The carved and polished past on Maine’s beaches. STORY BY DANA WILDE PHOTOS BY PETER RALSTON Twenty thousand years ago, the snow was deep in Maine. Really deep. America for about 60,000 years. Not much of it was melting. Snowfall after snowfall built up, packing the… SEE MORE

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Youth as Conservation Catalysts

Youth as Conservation Catalysts Friday, July 21, 1882. Immediately after breakfast all members of the camp sailed out of the harbor and over to the seawall . . . About two hours were spent on shore, Townsend and Spelman with their guns and Clark with his hammer, confining their attention… SEE MORE
Fred Moore III waits for sunrise as the full moon sets behind him at Pleasant Point Reservation on Passamaquoddy Bay.

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The Passamaquoddy Alternative

On a moonless November night, the rain-swollen St. Croix River flows unseen through the forests of eastern Maine and western New Brunswick. The river passes through the darkness almost by feel, and dozens of female American eels—silver eels, as they are called—snake along the bottom with the current, their noses… SEE MORE