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FALL 2017 New Preserve and Future Trail in Cundy’s Harbor By Ed Robinson

or many years, the This beautiful property Harpswell Heritage Land includes a portion of the Trust (HHLT) has worked freshwater pond and to conserve special lands cattail marsh known Fin all corners of our town. Even as the Little Ponds, so, the map of conserved lands surrounding forest and shows gaps in the eastern part of meadow and shoreline town. While the Land Trust was at the head of Hen Cove. able to acquire the southern half The preserve will be of the offshore Little Yarmouth forever protected and open to the public for properties on Great Island has recreation. A trail will be Island, finding available built within the next year. generous donor and landowners The property was in whobeen care difficult. deeply Finally, about thanks their land, to a the Harold and Susan Pulsifer family for many The new 22-acre Little Ponds years. In the 1960s and PreserveHHLT has is its on first Bethel success. Point Road. The new Little Ponds Preserve on Bethel Point Road. (Ed Robinson photo) Continued on page 2 Engaging Youth with Nature and Science in Harpswell participate in weekly “Forest Friday” outdoor science lessons t Harpswell lessons. These programs are Community Foundation. in the fall and the third grade will Community School provided for free to Harpswell During the 2017-2018 school embark on a year-long learning (HCS), Harpswell Community School as part of year, even more programs are adventure structured around Heritage Land Trust’s HHLT’s educational mission the Junior Ranger Activity Book A(HHLT) Julia McLeod has become and are funded by the Holbrook and second grade students will (created by Harpswell native a recognized face. Kids wave as in the works. Kindergarten, first she walks the hallways, and they trips to HHLT and Town trails! ask when she will be visiting Emma“You Levy), have givenincluding a huge nine boost field their classroom. to our childrens’ knowledge Over the past four years about their environment!” McLeod has been helping wrote Kerry Bailey, Principal at students connect with nature HCS. “I can’t say enough good through hands-on exploration, things about your ability to strengthen their science tailor learning experiences to skills through gathering and the age group you teach and the analyzing data and build on variety of ways you are willing their knowledge of Harpswell’s to connect with our teachers and habitats, plants and animals students. We are such fans!! And through outdoor lessons and It is HHLT’s hope that in Harpswell. throughwe are such participating beneficiaries!” in these field trips to some amazing sites programs, Harpswell’s youth During the 2016-2017 school Last spring Harpswell Community School second graders learned about year, HHLT reached every class in phenology, or the study of seasonal changes, with HHLT educator Julia McLeod. will connect with their town the school and provided a total Over the course of six weeks, they watched spring unfold in the woods near the Continued on page 6 of 59 hours of engaging science school. They discovered striped maple flowers on the trees. (Curt Chipman photo) FALL 2017 / 1 boats in early summer, Cundy’s Harbor or to pull docks ahead Preserve of winter. Continued from page 1 In 1998, Snow Island was sold to 1970s, Susan Pulsifer donated Dodge Morgan. Pat 23 acres of her land in several recalls the sense of Our Mission: pieces to Bowdoin College for loss that he felt upon use as a nature preserve and To preserve and protect that sale. However, outdoor classroom. Bowdoin Harpswell’s natural after Mr. Morgan’s used the property mainly for resources, cultural death, Pat seized heritage, and access to the their sailing club, building a dock the opportunity to Little Ponds and clubhouse there. outdoors through targeted acquire Snow Preserve conservation, responsible ED ROBINSON PHOTO Island from the stewardship and education. Morgan family and bring it BOARD OF TRUSTEES back into his Wendy Batson John Boomer family. Since David Brown, President that time, the Keith Brown Scanlans have Ron Davis become very Becky Gallery, insects and all kinds of aquatic Secretary involved in protecting Alicia Pulsifer Heyburn life. A recent visit turned up a the quality of life in and Dan Huber great blue heron, snowy egrets, Charlie Johnson, Treasurer around Quahog Bay. When the sailing club was frogs, robins, sparrows and Lynn Knight, Vice President Thanks to the Scanlan’s relocated to the Coastal Studies plenty of deer tracks on the Mary Ann Nahf generosity and concern for Sharon Oehmig Center on Orr’s Island, the pond’s edge. The neighboring protecting the water quality Ed Robinson property reverted to Harold and forest is a mix of pines, oaks, of Quahog Bay, a grant from Priscilla Seimer Susan’s four grandsons. As a cedars, spruce and shrubs and Deirdre Strachan the Mary Bucksbaum Scanlan result of this change, a window offers important nesting, shelter Jeff Stann Family Foundation provided of opportunity opened when the and feeding areas for birds, small the resources to acquire the grandsons agreed to sell 22 acres mammals, deer and turkeys. It is STAFF new Little Ponds Preserve and Reed Coles, of the property to HHLT at a a truly special addition to HHLT’s provide for the preserve’s long- Executive Director bargain price in order to see their conserved lands. term stewardship. Julia McLeod, Outreach For more information about Coordinator Finances are always a the Quahog Bay Conservancy, at this time of year, and marsh challengegrandmother’s in such wishes acquisitions, fulfilled. visit: http://quahogbay.org/. HARPSWELL HERITAGE areThe important pond, filled habitat with for lily birds pads LAND TRUST since there are costs for surveys, PO Box 359 legal work and, of course, the 153 Harpswell Neck Rd purchase price for a property. and are flush with waterfowl, Harpswell, ME 04079 Harpswell Day: A Celebration 207-721-1121 capital campaign to acquire the 207-837-9613 newHaving Otter just Brook finished Preserve, a major HHLT of Traditional Handcrafts and [email protected] needed a source of funding that [email protected] did not require another long Subsistence Skills www.hhltmaine.org campaign. Fortunately, a family Saturday, Oct. 14, 12-4 p.m. (rain or shine) at the with solid roots in the area Like us on Facebook! Harpswell Historical Society, 929 Harpswell Neck Rd stepped in to fund the project. Join our Email List Pat and Mary Scanlan are well Join Harpswell Historical CURT CHIPMAN PHOTO known locally for their work with Society and Harpswell the Quahog Bay Conservancy Heritage Land Trust for a and other charitable efforts. celebration of traditional While Mary grew up far from handcrafts and subsistence the coast in Iowa, Pat spent skills. This event happens many memorable summers in rain or shine at the Harpswell as a child. Pat’s uncle Harpswell Historical Society owned Snow Island in Quahog Museum, Centennial Hall, Bay and Pat remembers many the Old Meeting House, the one room schoolhouse and outdoors. trips from his family’s home in For all ages, there will be much to see, do and learn about during upstate New York to help launch this free event celebrating Harpswell’s history.

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NEWS AND UPDATES

cove for clammers. Our Changing Ocean Sunset Cruise Land “This project really serves In an ocean-oriented town We had another successful Conservation the part of HHLT’s mission that like Harpswell, people and the Sunset Cruise this summer. The Lands Committee and calls for providing access to ocean are inextricably linked. staff continue to pursue new the outdoors for all Harpswell Our community’s past, present allowed us to cruise the Weather conditions finally land conservation opportunities. residents and visitors,” said and future relate intimately spectacular eastern bay this year. Read the front page story for HHLT’s Reed Coles. “We want to the sea, and these days big JULIA MCLEOD PHOTO everyone to be able to enjoy the changes are happening in the preserve in Cundy’s Harbor. beauty of our community.” ocean. Seawater is getting information about our first warmer and more acidic, sea Otter Brook update level is rising rapidly, lobster Stewardship Talented volunteers are in catches are booming but young The Stewardship Committee the process of laying out a trail lobsters have become scarce, and our stewards continue to system on the new Otter Brook clams are disappearing, invasive work hard to maintain and Preserve and identifying where species like green crabs are more New Trustees improve our preserves and trails This summer at our Annual to put a parking lot. We hope to for public use and habitat values, Meeting we said thank you to two open new trails there in 2018. stocks are moving north, to name as well as monitor and enforce retiring trustees: Robin Brooks justabundant a few ofand the southern changes. fish our conservation easements. and Don Newberg. We welcomed Community This fall HHLT is sponsoring a Wendy Batson and Ron Davis to New Accessible Picnic Area on series of public events exploring the board. Basin Cove Outreach and these changes. What changes Wendy currently serves Thanks to a $3,800 grant from have been observed already in on Harpswell’s Conservation LL Bean and the sweat equity Education Casco Bay and the Gulf of Maine? Commission and on the Steering Short Courses of dedicated HHLT volunteers, What is causing these changes? Committee for the Harpswell This year we offered three visitors to the scenic Basin Cove What changes are expected in the Invasive Plant Partnership short courses with as in-depth area of Harpswell Neck have a near future? How do the changes (HIPP). Before retiring here, learning opportunities for new picnic area to enjoy. affect our local ecosystem, she spent 35 years working adults. The short courses Located across Basin Point with war-wounded, persons included sessions on plankton, Road from the parking area for can we do to reduce or adapt with disabilities and refugees HHLT’s Curtis Farm Preserve, geology, marine mammals, the tofishermen the changes and successfullyeconomy? What in ecology of place, birds, Native Harpswell? countries in Asia, Africa and American foods and medicines designed to be accessible by Join HHLT and experts from Southin post-conflict East Europe. and low income the picnic area was specifically and the history of Birch Island. wheelchairs. A level, gravel path the University of Maine and the Ron is returning to the Participants love these courses, leads to a picnic table with a Gulf of Maine Research Institute board after a year off. He has and we will offer more in 2018! spectacular view of Basin Cove on Oct. 17, Oct. 29 and Nov. 18 been a stalwart member of the Funding support comes from and a set of sturdy wooden steps to discover and discuss answers Stewardship Committee and can the Alfred M. Senter Fund and leads from the top of the bank and solutions. Check the back of often be found working outdoors the Leonard C. and Mildred F. this newsletter or our website for on HHLT trails. new steps improve access to the Ferguson Foundation. details. to the flats of Basin Cove. These

FALL 2017 / 3 JULIA MCLEOD PHOTO at the base of on your trees in November to Browntail and trees, where they prevent the female moth from Winter Moth crawl up the trunk crawling up the trunk to deposit to deposit eggs, eggs. If you wedge cotton balls Update which turn blue. behind the sticky band, you will By Christine Farrell The eggs hatch force the moth to lay her eggs in the spring, at the bottom of the tree trunk, e have two moths just in time to thereby increasing your chances in the Midcoast devour the buds of seeing the eggs and destroying that are harming of maples, oaks, them with horticultural oil in late our trees: the ashes and fruit winter. Wwinter moth and the browntail trees. Amazingly, Now for the good news. In moth. As you probably already the larvae produce the fall of 2016 the University of know, Harpswell was one of the A browntail moth caterpillar showing the distinctive red strands of silk, Massachusetts, in conjunction worst hit areas in the state for spots on its back. similar to spiders, with the Maine Forest Service, suffering tree damage from both develop alternative methods to move from tree canopy to tree moths this year. While I can’t to curb the browntail moth canopy, thus enabling them to cocoons (Cyzenis albicans) in inform you that the pests will be population. So be patient, and enhance dispersal through the peatreleased moss adult in a parasiticcage buried fly in gone any day now and will never hope that scientists will develop forest. Once the tree buds open, Harpswell. This past spring the return to our midst, I can tell you a new solution or Mother Nature about some new developments in will come to the rescue with feeding inside the buds. Once our area as well as steps you can a natural predator (a disease theyou one-inchmay find caterpillarsthe caterpillars are take to mitigate their damage. or a parasite) to consume the mature, they drop to the soil Many are aware of browntail caterpillars as they hatch. in early summer to begin the moth due to the annoying For more information on the cycle once again. itchiness they cause humans. browntail moth, visit http:// To treat the pest, you can According to Charlene www.maine.gov/dacf/mfs/ apply horticultural oils to the Donahue, Forest Entomologist forest_health/invasive_threats/ eggs in the late winter, when with the Maine Forest Service, browntail_moth_info.htm you should clip overwintering Our second big pest is the trunks. Finding the eggs is browntail moth nests and soak winter moth. While this moth notyou easy,may findhowever, them because on tree them in soapy water. If you see doesn’t cause the itchiness the eggs are often hidden many clusters high up in the trees of browntail, it can be very in tree crevices. For this and beyond your reach, contact damaging to trees. Adult male winter moth. reason, a professional pesticide a licensed arborist now to get on In late November, the adult applicator may be needed. But their schedule for next spring. moth emerges from the soil to and hopefully consumed enough Many of us learned this past lay eggs for next spring. The male time since bees will be out at the winterflies emerged moths fromto reduce the cocoons their spring how busy the arborists are winter moth is light brown and verybe aware same that time spring and they is a difficultwill also population. If the plan works in May, so fall is the best time to is strongly attracted to outdoor be on fruit trees, for a different as expected, these steps will be get on their schedule. lights. The female moth is grey and better reason: pollination. repeated in the future wherever The Maine Forest Service and wingless. Females are found You can place sticky bands needed. Let’s hope for the best! is working with universities to

handle on this plant early and Know Your preventing its spread could save Invasive Plants: much time and effort later, while supporting our native plants and Black Swallow- animals. wort This vine has stems up to By Becky Gallery, Harpswell six feet long that twine over Invasive Plant Partnership (HIPP) vegetation. Its narrow leaves are dark-green, smooth-edged Black swallow-wort is a non- native invasive plant just gaining a foothold in Harpswell. It has petals,and two blooming to five inches June throughlong. The been designated as an EDRR September.purplish-brown They flowers form slender have five (early detection/rapid response) green seed pods one and a half species by Maine’s Department to three inches long that ripen of Agricultion, Conservation to dark brown. The seeds within & Forestry and is damaging to the pods are brown with a hairy Continued on page 5 Monarch butterflies. Getting a Black Swallow-wort (Becky Gallery photo) 4 / HARPSWELL HERITAGE LAND TRUST Robin’s diligence as a steward of Bates College, from which he the design, construction and Robin Brooks Harpswell’s special places.” retired in 2001. After that, along installation of steps down to the By Doug Warren Another one of the special with his HHLT duties, Brooks shore of Basin Cove at our Curtis hen he was about places in Harpswell is the house served on the town planning Farm Preserve.” 10 years old, Brooks built himself, with the and budget advisory boards, And while Brooks has stepped Robin Brooks help of some friends, he will and started playing the clarinet down from the HHLT board, he cruised on a 56- modestly add, off Bayview Road again, his wife is pleased to point still plans to contribute when he Wfoot sailboat from the mouth of on Orr’s Island, where he and his can: “When they need some work out. Today, Brooks plays with the the Connecticut River to Cutler, wife, Jeanne, live today. Brooks Harpswell Concert Band, which is done or someone with a pickup, in far Downeast Maine. The trip describes the home, on the site of they can always call me.” made quite an impression. the former Reed Cove Boat Yard, “After that, I always knew I as “kind of a standard Cape now in its fifth season. wanted to live on the coast of in size,” but there is nothing Maine,” recalled Brooks, now 82. standard about it. That desire ultimately brought All the lumber in the the Williamstown, Mass., native to house came from structures a teaching job at Bowdoin College at the New England and a home on Bailey Island in Shipbuilding Corp. in South 1967. “At that time, there was no Portland, which churned question about land preservation. out Liberty Ships during Also, there was no question about World War II. Brooks access. That’s different now and and longtime Harpswell that’s why what the Harpswell selectman Malcolm “Laddie” Heritage Land Trust (HHLT) does Whidden hauled the wood is so important.” to the home site in 1978 and Brooks should know. After Brooks took it from there. He being elected to the HHLT Board also did all the brick work, a skill he learned as a mason’s year vacancy, he was re-elected assistant in high school. The toof Trusteesthree, three-year in 2007 toterms fill a and one- result is spectacular and a recently stepped down after being labor of love. Robin and Jeanne Brooks termed out by HHLT bylaws. Brooks is a man of many During that time, Brooks was a talents. He attended Columbia “I believe very strongly in the Please thank regular on the Communications University, earning a degree mission of the land trust and the and Stewardship committees. in economics. In graduate preservation of natural places,” these businesses “Robin was always ready school at Yale, he found he Brooks said. “But stewardship for supporting with his truck and carpentry enjoyed mathematics more is a very important part of that conservation in skills wherever we needed him,” than economics and ultimately process. We need to be sure we Harpswell said Reed Coles, HHLT executive received his doctorate in math have the people to continue to Anchor Publishing director. “The appeal of Houghton from UCLA. That led to the preserve and maintain those Bath Savings Trust Company teaching job at Bowdoin and later places.” Boucher Perkins Campbell He praised the community Graves Park, in particular, reflects Paradis outreach efforts of HHLT and Casco Bay Art League Black Swallow- attracted to it to lay their eggs. said outreach coordinator Julia Dolphin Marina and wort Whenthat Monarch the Monarch butterflies caterpillars are McLeod has done an outstanding Restaurant Continued from page 4 hatch on the swallow-wort and job. “The events and programs Eaton Peabody tuft at one end. begin eating the plant, they die. for young people are really Forest Synthesis, LLC Black swallow-wort is found How do we rid our town important for the future of Great Island Boat Yard in open areas, open woods, wet of this plant? One way is to the land trust and the town of Harpswell Coastal Academy meadows or along roadsides. Harpswell,” he explained. Keith Field Classical In Harpswell, the most visible Brooks served as the trustee Goldsmith patch is at Land’s End on Bailey orprevent the unopened the flowers seed from pods, going steward for the McIntosh Lot Kenney Landscaping to reduceseed. Remove the number the flowers, of new on Bailey Island, as well as along the roadside and parking seeds getting to the ground. Houghton Graves on Orr’s. “I Smith, P.A. Island, where you can find it area near the gift shop. It has New plants will still sprout, as enjoy going out and working MidLaw CoastOffice Hospital of Stoddard L. the seeds are viable for several Morton Real Estate in Harpswell. years, so vigilance is required. summing up years of dedicated O’Donal’s Nursery also been identified elsewhere on the land,” he said, briefly One of the most damaging Repeated digging and cutting labor. As Reed Coles added, “It’s R. A. Webber and Sons features of this plant is that will also help control the plant. appropriate that Robin’s last The Vicarage by the Sea it is so similar to milkweed contribution as a trustee was West Wind Lobster Tours

FALL 2017 / 5 CURT CHIPMAN PHOTO RAHGDA MOUSTAFA PHOTO Engaging Youth Continued from page 1 and come away with knowledge and fond memories of the outdoors. A recent study from the University of British Columbia “demonstrated that children who play outside are more likely to cherish and protect nature when they become young adults.” (Check out an Aug. 21 article in Forbes for more) Something seems to be of facts and fun games like animal working. A survey given to auction, screaming toes and In addition to the programs “playing and exploring outside sharks and minnows.” offered at Harpswell Community in places they haven’t been Harpswell Community School Her mother, Meaghan Gonsior, the outgoing fifth graders at School, HHLT offers public found that all students reported chipped in: “At the beach recently, programs for all ages throughout exploring the tide pools,” “great that they enjoy learning outdoors my cousin pointed out how the year and Nature Day Camp leadersbefore,” and“catching happy butterflies kids,” “free and in the spring, summer and fall. different the same tide pools for kids in the summertime. time exploring” and “seeing lots The vast majority said that looked from our childhood. We nature, animals and water are For nearly 20 years Nature of animals.” important to them, and that they Day Camp has been JULIA MCLEOD PHOTO want to take action to protect engaging young people nature. with nature in Harpswell. One student responded that It has expanded in scope it is important for some places and popularity, and this year its four weeks of CURT CHIPMAN PHOTO camp (for preschool and

to capacity by the end of March.elementary ages) filled Every day of camp is held in a different Harpswell location, and each of these sites offer amazing opportunities for learning and fun. Campers look for crabs and other critters “I learned that you can tell stars, but these days it’s mostly in the tide pools at Pott’s Point if crabs are male or female by justused periwinkles. to find urchins I want and my sea kids looking at the triangle on the to grow up appreciating and Curtis Farm Preserve, visit bottom of the shell. And that was preserving this beautiful place thePreserve, marine catch lab at butterflies Bowdoin’s at pretty fascinating,” said camper we call home. Julia and HHLT Coastal Studies Center, wade Rohan Gonsior, who is a student have created programs that in the tidal stream at Stover’s at Harpswell Community School. kids love, so her passion for the Point Preserve, embark on a “The camp leaders taught us a lot outdoors becomes treasure hunt at Johnson to stay natural “so people can contagious. We Field Preserve, visit the experience it and because took some of the community garden at without it we would not be how camp ideas home Mitchell Field and so much or who we are.” with us. My kids more. “People have taken most of get super excited According to campers the world over so animals are when we do the and their parents, being forced to move away from noticing game highlights of this the place that they mostly live -- just being quiet summer’s camps included: in, in the wild, which is bad for and listening for “hunting for crabs,” “being the people because if we get rid a couple minutes, outdoors and active,” of the animals then the world’s then sharing what “camp games,” being ecosystems would collapse,” we saw and heard.” another student commented. up close with sea life,”

JULIA MCLEOD PHOTO 6 / HARPSWELL HERITAGE LAND TRUST Volunteers make our conservation and education work possible. We couldn’t do it without you. Thank you! Heidi Aakjer Lisa Burrows Michael Dow Jen Ahearn Sally Butcher Robert Dow Robin Brooks builds stairs at the new accessible picnic Janet Alexander Gregory Carafelli Steve Dow area at Basin Cove. (Curt Samuel Alexander Karen Carlisle Gary Downes Chipman photo) Elder Amos Tom Carlisle Wendy Downes Michael Antico Alice Carman Hannah Dring Michele Antico Tom Carr Nelia Dunbar Jean Arcangeli Lisa Cass Kimberlee Elder Susan Armitage Alicia Caterina Elizabeth Niles Armstrong Rob Center Erswell Paul Avis Helene Chase Christine Farrell Cristine Bachor William Chase Gretchen Feiss Lindsay Baker David Cherry Susan Ferraro Tony Barrett Elizabeth Childs David Fitzgerald Wendy Batson Dianne Elizabeth Rachel Beane Chilmonczyk Fowler Charles Bernier Caroline Chipman Tulle Frazer John Berry Curt Chipman Wendy Elna Hunter Corinne Lidsky Susan Olcott Lynn Smith Ralph Black Kathe Chipman Frechette James Hutchison Karl Lieberwirth Melissa op den Lynn Smith Linda Blanton Ronald Chipman Connie French Jeff Johns Susan Lowery Kelder Karin Soderberg Marcia Blue Marie Clarke Smith Marydana Johns John Loyd Margaret Orlando Jeanne St Laurent Scott Bodwell Christopher Coles Cynthia Friend Charles Johnson Bruce MacDougal James Owen Jym St. Pierre Sheila Bohlin Doug Collins Janet Fullerton Sheila Karajin Christine Madden Joseph Palma Betsy Stacey John Boomer Jane Collins Patrick Gallery Debbie Kelly Sam Mayne James Parmentier Ann Standridge Bowdoin College Monique Coombs Rebecca Gallery Becky Kolak Malcolm McFarland Pamela Payson Jeff Stann Students Nellie Coulter Cathy Given Shani Kiczek Marnie McFarland Ned Perry Judith Stanton Kathy Bowen Jane Covey Tim Glidden Paul Kittle Robert McIntyre Trish Petty Susan Stemper Bruce Brandt Margaret Cowgill Kathy Goodrich Lynn Knight Andy McLeod Walter Phillips Deirdre Strachan Jeanne Brooks Leo Coyle Ted Goulette Richard Knox Callie McMahon Kate Piper David Strelitz Robin Brooks Kimberly Damon Laura Grady Henry Korsiak Daniel McMahon David Plumpton Burr Taylor David Brown Jane Davis Tracy Graff Michael LaPlante Bethany McNelly- Priscilla Plumpton Peter Taylor Keith Brown Janet Davis Susan Lavan Davis Dana Porter David Thies Gail Bruce Ron Davis Thomas Hall Dayle Lavine Rick Meisenbach Samuel Powers Marielynn Towers Rob Bryan Stan Davis ZacharyHarriette Harder Griffin Richard Lavine Courtney Melstrom Nathaniel Pulsifer Deane Van Dusen Carrie Bubier John Deislinger Alicia Heyburn Samantha Leney Heather Merriman David Reed Doug Warren Karen Bump Craig Douglas Hope Hilton Theresa Leney Susan Millar Lyn Rice Billy Watkins Lisa Burke Kara Douglas Daniel Huber William Millar Martha Richardson Lauren Watkinson Rachel Miller Edward Robinson Joel Weeks Wendy Downes weeds the new native plant garden Tina Millner Heather Rogers Robert Weggel at the HHLT office. (Julia Wallace Millner Jeanie Rubio Donald Westfall McLeod photo) Donald Miskill Jonathan Tuckie Westfall Mary Moore Santeramo James Whalen Sandy Moore Alan Sawyer Andrea White David Morton Cynthia Sawyer Sharon Whitney Stephen Moulen Priscilla Seimer Dennis Wilkins Judy Muller Katie Sellers Linda Wilkins Jennifer Nadeau Peggy Shanler Lori Williams Mary Ann Nahf David Sheaff Kate Wing Doreen Nardone Trisha Sheaff Cynthia Wood Donald Newberg Amanda Shearin Ken Woods Marguerite Keith Sherman Deborah Wright Newberg Ellen Shillinglaw Frank Wright Ken Oehmig Jane Smith Aimee York Sharon Oehmig Joseph Smith Donna York

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Upcoming Events and Programs KATIE WRIGHT PHOTO Most events are free. For details: www.hhltmaine.org. Identifying Mosses and Cranberry Picking at other Bryophytes Otter Brook Sun., Oct. 1, 1-2:30 Sat., Oct. 28, 3-4:30 p.m. • p.m. • Hackett and Advance registration required Minot Trails • Advance registration required Preparing for Sea Level Rise Sun., Oct. 29, 1-2:30 p.m. Harpswell Day: • Harpswell Heritage A Celebration of Land Trust • Advance Traditional Handcrafts registration required and Subsistence Skills Sat., Oct. 14, 12-4 p.m. Resilient Coastal • Harpswell Historical Communities and Marine Make a Winter Winter Solstice Society Ecosystems: Translating Solstice Lantern Lantern Walk Science into Action Sun., Dec. 10, Thurs., Dec. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. 21, 5-6 p.m. • Ocean Acidification: Sat., Nov. 18, 3-4 p.m. • • Harpswell Houghton Graves Will Lobsters and Clams Harpswell Heritage Land Heritage Land Park • Advance Disappear? What can we Trust Trust registration required do to Fight Acidification of Local Waters? Harpswell Family Outing Tues., Oct. 17, 5-6:30 Harpswell Heritage Land Get out on collaboration with Harpswell Trust’s Our Changing p.m. • Harpswell Recreation and Harpswell the trails! Ocean series Heritage Land Trust Community Nursery School

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