Fall/Winter 2016 Volume 21 No. 3

A Magazine about Acadia National Park and Surrounding Communities

Friends of Acadia Journal Fall/Winter 2016 1

President’s Message

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hen a handful of volunteers And the impact of this work extends at Acadia National Park and beyond Acadia: this fall I attended a Wforward-looking park staff to- conference at the Grand Canyon, where gether founded Friends of Acadia in 1986, I heard how several other friends groups their goal was to provide more opportuni- from around the country are modeling ties for citizens to give back to this beloved their efforts after FOA’s best practices place that gave them so much. Many were and historic successes. Closer to home, avid hikers willing to help with trail up- community members in northern Maine keep. Others were concerned about dwin- have already reached out to FOA for tips dling park funding coming from Washing- as they contemplate a friends group for the ton. Those living in the surrounding towns newly-established Katahdin Woods and shared a desire to help a large federal agen- Waters National Monument. cy better understand and work with our As the brilliant fall colors seemed to small Maine communities. hang on longer than ever at Acadia this These visionaries may or may not year, I enjoyed a late-October morning on have predicted the challenges and the Precipice Trail. The young peregrine opportunities facing Acadia at the dawn FOA falcons had fledged, and the re-opened trail of its second century—such as climate featured a few new rungs and hand-holds change, transportation planning, cruise and partners whom we hope will remain made possible by a generous FOA donor. I ship visitation, youth engagement, committed to the long-term stewardship of miraculously had the route all to myself— and habitat fragmentation—but they Acadia. until I approached the summit, where I anticipated perfectly that Acadia would I am often asked by our members if heard voices and a cell phone beeping. I benefit and thrive from greater community FOA’s success might tempt Congress to was trying not to feel grumpy about sharing involvement. They might not have pare back funding for Acadia in favor of the mountain, when I suddenly took in the predicted that FOA would grant more “needier” parks with less philanthropic or gist of the conversation: a young couple than $25 million to Acadia National Park volunteer involvement. Our experience has, had just gotten engaged atop Champlain, and surrounding communities over its first in fact, proven just the opposite. Since FOA and they were calling to tell their parents three decades. But they understood that raised funds to restore Acadia’s trail system the news. the needs going forward would be great, through the Acadia Trails Forever campaign Winded from my climb and more than and that an organization like FOA would more than a decade ago, the amount of a bit weary from this wild and wonderful need to be built to last. Thirty years is not a federal grants that the park has received for centennial year at Acadia, I felt a jolt of long time for an organization that is “in the trail work has increased dramatically. excitement for this new beginning and perpetuity business,” but thanks to all of Meanwhile, as appropriations for park raised my water bottle in a toast to the you, the collective impact we have already operating budgets have remained largely flat couple. I hope that 2016 will always be a had is significant and lasting. during that time, the only glimmer of hope special year for them, as it will be for me I have often thought of FOA’s founders for additional federal funding has been in and all of us at FOA. Thanks to everyone during 2016, as we work to make our the form of challenge grant opportunities. who has helped Friends of Acadia climb organization stronger and more sustainable FOA’s ability to provide dependable to new heights over its first thirty years— to carry on the mission they began. Our matching funds from the private sector and now, onward to the trail leading into Second Century Campaign, announced makes Acadia very competitive in applying Acadia’s second century! this summer, is providing vital financial for these new federal dollars. Last year, resources to protect our park from threats Acadia won a Centennial Challenge grant, posed by changes in our world, like growing which FOA matched, to help reclaim scenic visitation and a warming climate. And vistas from Acadia’s motor and carriage —David R. MacDonald our deep involvement in the community- roads; this year, we matched Centennial driven Acadia Centennial celebration is Challenge funding that helped to bring strengthening a network of businesses more Maine schoolchildren to visit Acadia.

Friends of Acadia Journal Fall/Winter 2016 1 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Edward L. Samek, Chair Hank Schmelzer, Treasurer John Fassak, Vice Chair Emily Beck, Secretary Brownie Carson Gail Clark Linda Jensen Hannah Sistare Clark Jan Kärst Fall/Winter 2016 Andrew Davis Jack Kelley Bill Eacho Rob Leary Volume 21 No. 3 Dave Edson Story Litchfield Nathaniel Fenton Meredith Moriarty A Magazine about Acadia National Park and Surrounding Communities Elsie Flemings Lili Pew Jill Goldthwait Jack Russell C. Boyden Gray Nonie Sullivan Anne Green Christiaan van Heerden Cookie Horner Julie Veilleux Bill Zoellick HONORARY TRUSTEES Eleanor Ames Phoebe Milliken Robert and Anne Bass George J. and Heather Curtis and Patricia Blake Mitchell Sylvia Blake Joseph Murphy Frederic A. Bourke Jr. Janneke Neilson Tristram and Ruth Colket Nancy Nimick Gail Cook Jack Perkins Shelby and Gale Davis Nancy Pyne Dianna Emory Nathaniel P. Reed Frances Fitzgerald Ann R. Roberts Sheldon Goldthwait David Rockefeller Neva Goodwin Jeannine Ross Paul and Eileen Growald Howard Solomon Paul Haertel Erwin Soule Lee Judd Diana Davis Spencer FEATURE ARTICLES Debby Lash Julia Merck Utsch 7 A Lead Gift for Youth at Acadia Lisa Horsch Clark Linda Lewis Dick Wolf Liz Martinez The Second Century Campaign inspires Acadia’s future 8 30 Candles for Friends of Acadia Aimee Beal Church EMERITUS TRUSTEES We’re tooting our own (party) horn! W. Kent Olson Charles R. Tyson Jr. 10 Acoustic Ecology and the Acadia Soundscapes Frederick Bianchi FRIENDS OF ACADIA STAFF Student researchers stop to listen in the park Mary Boëchat David R. MacDonald Development Officer President & CEO 12 Where Science, Nature, and Beauty Co-Mingle Natalie Overton Sharon Broom Diana R. McDowell Two siblings forge a connection with Acadia Development Officer Director of Finance & Administration Aimee Beal Church 14 Men Can’t Move Mountains, but Mountains Do Move Men Charlie Jacobi Communications Director Carol Potter The summits of George Dorr and Percival Baxter Finance & Development Stephanie Clement Assistant Conservation Director 32 Why I’m a Friend of Acadia Al Wiberly Mike Staggs More is Hidden than Visible Lisa Horsch Clark Office Manager Director of Development Paige Steele Sarah Curts Conservation Projects Accounting & ACTIVITIES AND DEPARTMENTS Manager Administrative Associate Julia Walker Thomas 1 President’s Message FOA at 30 Shawn Keeley Communications Assistant Senior Development Officer 3 Superintendent’s View Getting There from Here in Acadia 5 Special People Brenda Beckett and Howie Motenko 6 Where in Acadia? 20 Updates PRST STD 30 Recommended Reading U.S. POSTAGE PAID LEWISTON, MAINE PERMIT #82

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GETTING THERE FROM HERE IN ACADIA

s I write this column, Acadia Na- funded the development of a model analyz- tional Park is releasing the prelimi- ing congestion on the summit of Cadillac Anary concepts for its long-needed Mountain, which will help us identify levels transportation plan. The transportation of traffic that lead to traffic problems there. plan represents an important moment for FOA’s Cadillac Summit Stewards have been Acadia as we try to determine how to best key to helping us manage visitor use on Ca- provide safe and efficient transportation dillac. Dollars raised through FOA’s Second and maintain a high-quality visitor experi- Century Campaign can help with potentially ence, while also protecting the integrity of significant costs of implementing pieces of park resources and values. the preferred alternative, once it is identified. This summer, I saw for myself just why Friends of Acadia is also an important and a transportation plan is so important to well-respected voice in the public discus- Acadia’s future. I saw parking lots overflow- sion about transportation in Acadia; as part ing with cars, visitors unable to park, and of the FOA community you are a part of Island Explorer buses jammed to capacity. that. Although the public comment period NPS/Kristi Rugg This summer we closed the Cadillac Sum- for the preliminary concepts will be over by mit Road on nine occasions due to extreme The preliminary concepts for the trans- the time this column is published, you will congestion. To me, these conditions indicate portation plan are conversation starters and have the opportunity to review and com- real issues that must be addressed. represent a variety of possibilities. Ideas in- ment on the draft plan and environmental In addition to the challenges we are expe- clude establishing a reservation system for impact statement in 2017. And I continue to riencing now, we also need to be prepared private vehicles, using queuing to manage benefit from the one-on-one conversations for the future. As of September, the park’s traffic levels, replacing private vehicle ac- I’ve had with many of you and I know those year-to-date visitation was up 17 percent cess with an expanded bus system in cer- will continue. over 2015—on top of a 35 percent increase tain park locations, and restricting vehicle As we move through our transportation in visits between 2006 and 2015. Suffice it length on some roads. Some of the prelimi- planning process, I encourage you to stay to say that we are busy and getting busier! nary concepts include strategies that would involved and engaged. Visit the plan’s web- This is why coming up with an innovative be in place only during particular seasons or site at parkplanning.nps.gov/ACADTrans- system to manage parking and congestion is times of day; others include adaptive strate- portationPlan. It is only with the help of so important now. gies that would be implemented only if and many that we will come up with a solution Paradoxically, I also learned this summer when triggers or thresholds are reached. that ensures high quality experiences for that Acadia’s congestion problems are closely The transportation plan is important to Acadia’s visitors for years to come, protects related to specific locations and times of day. the quality of life for people living in the the park’s incredible natural and cultural re- For example, you can visit Sand Beach for a many communities that surround the park. sources, and better serves the neighboring spectacular picnic dinner and often enjoy a Acadia’s boundary is highly integrated with communities. prime parking spot in the bargain. Similarly, neighboring towns. There are many points I covered plenty of delightful miles on hik- of entry, and many ways that residents use ing trails and carriage roads that were rarely park roads. The Island Explorer bus system, crowded. roadside parking on state roads, and one- This summer, I also heard some of your way directionality of the Park Loop Road ideas, concerns, and perspectives about all impact transportation in Acadia’s sur- transportation in Acadia. These conversa- rounding communities as well as within the —Kevin Schneider tions have been vital to me as I settle into park. The transportation plan is intended to Acadia, learn the park and the communities, help reduce congestion and safety issues on and assimilate many different ideas and per- roads on both sides of Acadia’s boundaries. spectives. Friends of Acadia is playing a critical role in the transportation planning process. FOA

Friends of Acadia Journal Fall/Winter 2016 3 sky or the autumn foliage, or walking up to Notes from Friends the bridges to stop for a picnic lunch and seeing the beautiful waterfall created from Thanks for the lift melted winter snow. On this Centennial year I broke my leg on Huguenot Head on the I have made a promise to myself that I will morning of August 5th, on a “routine” hike walk every inch of every carriage road before on a trail I hike often. It was my greatest fear Fall/Winter 2016 snow flies. As of this writing I am three-quar- Volume 21 No. 3 come true—a serious injury up on a moun- ters there and loving every moment. tain. Now what? Great cell phone reception A Magazine about Acadia National Park I am not a “certified” volunteer for Acadia, and Surrounding Communities and rapid action by the park dispatchers but hardly a day goes by when I am walking quickly got the ball rolling—and the young out there that I don’t see someone looking Friends of Acadia preserves, protects, and women and men of the Ridge Runners ar- promotes stewardship of the outstanding bewildered or lost. I stop and ask them if I rived to help on the carry-out. I want to natural beauty, ecological vitality, can help with directions, and we end up hav- thank all of them for their selfless action in and distinctive cultural resources of ing a wonderful conversation about Acadia helping others and their genuine compas- Acadia National Park and surrounding and their home. communities for the inspiration sion and concern during the carry-out, all and enjoyment of current and while maintaining a sense of humor. FOA Lastly, I would like to compliment FOA for future generations. and the Ridge Runners epitomize the strong the Explorer buses. I have always loved to community spirit on our island and we are walk from Ledgelawn Avenue down to Thun- The Journal is published three times a year. lucky to have you as a resource. der Hole and beyond, knowing I can always Submissions and letters are welcome. See get a ride home no matter where I end up in http://friendsofacadia.org/news-publications/ I now have a titanium rod in my leg and am friends-of-acadia-journal/submissions/ Acadia. Thank you FOA, park rangers, and healing nicely. Thanks to all of you. all the men and women for your dedication Opinions expressed are the authors’. —Jim Denegre, eternally grateful hiker in keeping Acadia National Park at its best. Southwest Harbor EDITOR —Norma Wilbur Spurling Aimee Beal Church Bar Harbor DESIGN What could be more satisfying? Correction Mahan Design I have lived in Bar Harbor all but one of my In the summer 2016 issue, a photo caption PHOTOGRAPHER AT LARGE 73 years. My greatest passion is being able on page 7 misidentifies one of the two sci- Tom Blagden to walk in Acadia, which I find to be very entists taking soil samples at Great Meadow. PRINTING spiritual as well as wonderful exercise. What They are Celeste Mittelhauser (left) and Penmor Lithographers could be more satisfying than walking past Glen Mittelhauser, both from Maine Natural Bubble and Jordan Pond and Eagle Lake and PUBLISHER History Observatory. David R. MacDonald gazing at the mountains and the clear blue

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4 Fall/Winter 2016 Friends of Acadia Journal Special People

BRENDA BECKETT AND HOWIE MOTENKO: USING THEIR PASSIONS

sk Brenda Beckett and photos on specific subjects im- Howie Motenko how they mediately, he delivered a thumb Afirst heard about Friends drive within a few days. And when of Acadia, and they’ll just laugh. area businesses were invited to “It seems like FOA has always become Acadia Centennial Part- been there,” explains Brenda. The ners and create official centennial couple became members long be- products—and donate at least five fore moving to Bar Harbor, back percent of proceeds—Brenda and when they lived in southern Maine Howie hosted two “Lobster Picnic and visited for a week every win- Photo Safaris” aboard their 28- ter. They made a plan to move foot “lobster yacht” and donated here, someday. Says Howie, “then all of the profits. Says Lisa Horsch one year we came in the sum- Clark, “Brenda and Howie are fun mer—and at the end of a magical people to work with—easy, cre- week we looked at each other and ative, generous. They’re just joyful said, what are we waiting for?” givers. And they love the park.” It was the following year, after Their giving is not limited to they’d found jobs (he as a software photography. They are among engineer at the Jackson Lab, she as the youngest members of FOA’s a physician assistant at MDI Hos- George B. Dorr Society and show

pital) and made the move, that Soules George up for the society’s gathering ev- their FOA connections started to Howie Motenko and Brenda Beckett, near Upper Hadlock Pond. ery year—just appearing in the grow. A workshop on light paint- group picture from that event is a ing, a technique of nighttime photography generated $4,000 in sales that they happily reminder to all that it’s never too early to where the subject is lit up with flashlights, donated; they later gave three of the images include FOA in one’s estate plans. And this inspired the idea of light-painting Acadia’s for FOA to reproduce on the notecards that past February, Howie was appointed to the historic carriage road bridges. They’d get accompany FOA gift memberships. 16-member Acadia National Park Advisory some friends to wield the flashlights, How- Ask Lisa what Howie and Brenda do for Commission, which was formed by Con- ie—a talented photographer—would wield FOA, and she’ll just laugh. “What don’t gress to consult with the National Park Ser- the camera, and Brenda would supply her they do?” Following the Painting Bridges vice on matters relating to the management amazing home-baked treats to entice the success, their involvement snowballed. It and development of the park. friends. They knew that Friends of Acadia’s quickly became clear that Howie’s photo- When asked what advice they might give campaign to restore the carriage roads had graphic talents, combined with the cou- to somebody first looking for a way to give been an integral part of the organization’s ple’s unstinting enthusiasm for any pro- back to Acadia, Brenda points out that FOA formation, so they decided to sell prints of posal, would make them valuable allies. makes it easy to get involved, saying, “don’t the photos and donate the proceeds to FOA. They began making in-kind donations to feel intimidated—just show up.” Howie The project was a runaway success: the Annual Benefit Auction, giving pho- adds that “using my skills and my passion drawing upwards of 50 volunteers outside, tographic prints as well as excursions in is the best way I can make a difference for at night, in winter for each photo shoot and the park through their “Acadia Photo Sa- Acadia. If people look to the resources they in the process building community, cama- fari” business. When FOA needed night- naturally have, they’re likely to end up raderie, a deep appreciation for Acadia’s time before-and-after photographs of new achieving something they believe in.” � cultural treasures, and an increased aware- dark-sky-friendly lighting at Blackwoods ness for FOA. Plus, they worked with FOA and Seawall campgrounds, Howie was —Aimee Beal Church development director Lisa Horsch Clark there. When a project for the Second Cen- to set up an exhibit of the photos, which tury Campaign needed a group of gorgeous

Friends of Acadia Journal Fall/Winter 2016 5 Where in Acadia?

Where in Acadia? Did you ever stand at the base of a mountain in Acadia and look up to see tiny figures wending their way to the summit? Or stand on the brink of a steep trail and wonder if the hikers you could see far below were taking note of your achieve- ment? These two photographs let us experience both moments at the same time: the first was taken from a lakeside trail, looking up at

a summit; the second was taken Thomas FOA/Julia Walker from that very summit, looking down at that very same point on the trail. Do you think those three figures knew they were being pho- tographed? The two pictures were taken this fall within a few weeks of each other. If you think you can identify the mountain and the lakeside trail pictured here, email us at editor@ friendsofacadia.org and include a personal story or memory about either or both. We’ll print our favorite response in the next is- sue of the Journal and we’ll send

©2015 Aimee Beal Church. a Friends of Acadia cap to the writer. Canon, a leading provider of consumer, business-to- business and industrial digital imaging solutions, is

committed to giving back to Howie Motenko the communities in which we live and work. Whether it’s Summer 2016 Where in Acadia? supporting youth initiatives or My wife and I discovered this spot, sustaining the environment, The Bowl, and spent a few hours Canon is dedicated to creating reading, swimming, having lunch, programs and products and relaxing at the water’s edge. It that aim to make a positive was summer, but somehow we had difference for our planet. the place to ourselves almost the entire time. The water was clean Learn more at and perfect temperature to cool www.usa.canon.com/ us off. The sun was bright and we environment took several dips to cool off again. It was the perfect afternoon. The Charlie Jacobi next time we visited, we tried to recreate that experience. It was much busier, not as quiet or relaxing, and we saw a leech or two. Ever since then, one of our family’s favorite sayings is “You can’t recreate perfection.” We visit this spot pretty much every trip, and we plan to ©2015 Canon U.S.A., Inc. retire and live within walking distance of this and many of the other Acadia prime attractions. All rights reserved. Canon U.S.A., Inc. —Jon Suiter, Fairpoint, New York

6 Fall/Winter 2016 Friends of Acadia Journal Second Century Campaign

A LEAD GIFT FOR YOUTH AT ACADIA

ne of Friends of Acadia’s goals for through all stages of their growth and this centennial year has been to “in- development, from the younger years of Ospire Acadia’s future.” A historic gift play and discovery, as well as study and from the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation to learning and finally employment and lead-

the Tomorrow’s Stewards pillar of FOA’s Sec- ership. We are so grateful to Diana and FOA/Aimee Beal Church ond Century Campaign will do just that: the Abby for their leadership and generosity Today’s young people, like these proud Centennial Junior Rangers, are vital to Acadia’s future. Now $2 million grant is the largest ever in FOA’s in helping to ensure Acadia’s future.” FOA can do more to excite their curiosity and history to be dedicated toward youth en- strengthen their connections to this remarkable gagement programs at Acadia. Campaign Update place. “At a time when our children are inun- Since Friends of Acadia publicly an- dated with technology and media, I be- nounced the Second Century Campaign matically be matched dollar for dollar. lieve exposing them to a national park like at our annual meeting on July 8th—the The Second Century Campaign is al- Acadia will awaken a sense of awe for the actual hundredth birthday of Acadia—we ready playing a meaningful role in Acadia’s beauties of nature and have a profound have been overwhelmed by the spirit of resource protection, youth engagement, effect on their attitudes and memories,” generosity and commitment that so many visitor experience, and trails and carriage says Diana Davis Spencer. “And, youth is have shown toward this historic initiative. road work—and this impact will only Acadia’s future!” Diana has been spending Whether it was the stirring testimonials grow over time as permanent endowments summers in Northeast Harbor most of her shared by our campaign co-chairs on July ensure a sustained emphasis on these pri- life and inherited a passion for all things 8th; or the excitement around the 2016 ority areas at our park. Please join us as we Acadia from her mother, Kathryn Was- Acadia Centennial; or concern around stretch to meet our ambitious campaign serman Davis. Diana and her daughter pressures facing the park due to rapidly- goals by year-end! � Abby Moffat are also continuing Kathryn’s rising visitation—the interest in this cam- —Lisa Horsch Clark strong tradition of philanthropy and com- paign has been tremendous. Hundreds munity involvement through the founda- of gifts of all sizes from near and far have tion’s support for efforts such as the Sec- brought us within striking distance of our ond Century Campaign. $25 million goal—but we still have more The $2 million grant establishes the than $1 million to raise between now and Join the Celebration! Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Endow- year-end. Support the campaign by ment for Youth Programs in Acadia, which We are very grateful for a $1 million making a gift today. will allow Friends of Acadia to work with challenge grant issued by the Martha and Acadia National Park, area schools, and Alexis Stewart Foundation that has played To make a gift: partner organizations to expand oppor- a huge role in our progress and momen- • Use a credit card on our secure tunities for young people to learn, work, tum in recent weeks. As Martha Stewart online page at and serve in the park through academic commented: “Acadia National Park is very friendsofacadia.org/secondcentury programs as well as summer jobs. Already, special to me and my family and we are the gift has helped hundreds of Maine happy to support Friends of Acadia in this • Call the office at 207-288-3340 to fourth-graders to make field trips to Aca- centennial year. With this special chal- discuss the campaign or make a dia this fall, and has funded several in- lenge grant, we hope to encourage and pledge or credit card gift ternship opportunities for teens interested inspire others to ‘give back’ to Acadia— in working in the park. A portion of the a truly magical place.” The family has • Mail a check, made payable to grant will create a permanent endowment chosen to direct its support toward the Friends of Acadia, to: to ensure FOA’s ability to continue these Wild Acadia initiatives as part of the cam- vital opportunities well into the future. paign—ensuring healthy woods, waters, Second Century Campaign “This gift is truly an inspiration to all flora, and fauna at Acadia in the face of P.O. Box 45 of us at Friends of Acadia,” commented rapid environmental change and pressures Bar Harbor, ME 04609 FOA’s president David MacDonald. “It af- on park habitats. All campaign gifts, from firms our commitment to do all that we the start of the challenge in early fall until can to involve young people in the park we reach the $1 million goal, will auto- Friends of Acadia Journal Fall/Winter 2016 7 30th Anniversary

30 CANDLES FOR FRIENDS OF ACADIA Compiled by Aimee Beal Church

We’re tooting our own (party) horn! Friends of Acadia marked its 30th anniversary in 2016. This organization has come a long way from its founding in 1986 and its first modest fundraising efforts and small—but enthusiastic!—volunteer events. These 30 achievements illustrate our growth over the years.

1989 FOA’s first fundraising campaign raises $25,000 to relight Bear Island Light.

1989 An FOA grant to Acadia purchases a leaf vacuum for use on the carriage roads.

1991 The first annual Take Pride in Aca- dia Day draws 57 volunteers to rake Aca- dia’s carriage roads.

1991–1996 The Carriage Road Cam- paign leverages a $6 million federal com- mitment to reconstruct the carriage roads, creating a privately-funded $4 million en- dowment for maintenance and establishing FOA as a significant park partner.

1997 FOA hires its first field crew leader to lead volunteers on work projects in Acadia. FOA

1997 The Ridge Runners program is es- 1999–2001 Acadia Trails Forever tablished and endowed to educate hikers raises $13 million in public and private on Acadia’s trails and open doors for young funds, with gifts from more than 1,100 do- adults interested in outdoor recreation and nors, making Acadia the first national park conservation careers. with an endowed trail system.

1997–2015 Schoodic Woods goes 1999 The Acadia Youth Conservation from an impending clear-cut to Acadia’s Corps is endowed to assist Acadia’s road newest asset. and trail maintenance crews and connect area teens with the park. 1998 Working with the park, FOA achieves a first-in-nation jet-ski ban on all 2000 The first Earth Day Roadside ponds in Acadia. Cleanup is held, promoting outdoor vol- unteerism in Acadia’s surrounding com- 1999 FOA co-develops and co-funds munities. the Island Explorer bus system, a first step toward addressing Acadia’s transportation 2001 The Great Meadow Loop is inau- FOA challenges. gurated, establishing the first Village Con- nector Trail from downtown Bar Harbor into Acadia.

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2011 The National Parks Conservation 2016 FOA has more than 4,500 mem- Association honors Friends of Acadia with bers. the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Award for advocacy. 2016 Sawyer’s Point, a 62-acre water- front parcel on Seal Cove Pond, is protect- 2012 The first phase of the Acadia Gate- ed by the Acadia Land Legacy partnership way Center is inaugurated, a Gold LEED- with Maine Coast Hertitage Trust—the 21st rated maintenance and administration fa- such in-holding of privately owned land cility for the Island Explorer. within Acadia’s boundary to be transferred to the park. 2013 A state-of-the-art water-quality NRCM/Allison Wells monitoring buoy is launched in Jordan 2014–2016 The Second Century 2005 The Acadia Winter Trails Associa- Pond, Maine’s clearest lake. Campaign establishes new endowments to tion is endowed to support cross-country ensure Acadia’s long-term health, including ski trail grooming on Acadia’s carriage 2013 The Acadia Teacher Fellows pro- the Diana Davis Spencer Youth Endow- roads. gram is expanded with FOA support, help- ment (see page 7). ing more kids to have a meaningful and 2007 FOA purchases and protects 25 lasting connection with Acadia and other 2016 The Acadia Centennial inspires acres on Acadia Mountain, threatened by public lands. 451 Acadia Centennial Partners to con- development. tribute to the celebration and to Acadia’s 2013 Acadia’s Exotic Plant Management future, and Friends of Acadia receives the Acadia Quest is introduced, chal- 2008 Team is expanded with FOA support, en- NPS Director’s Partnership Award for its lenging young people and their families abling the consistent and intensive effort leadership. and mentors to explore, discover, and pro- required to keep invasive plants from nega- tect Acadia. tively impacting Acadia’s ecosystem.

2009 FOA partners to celebrate Acadia’s 2013–2016 The Wild Acadia water- starry night sky as an important park re- shed-based natural resource management source in the first annual Acadia Night Sky project at Cromwell Brook involves scien- Festival. tists and interns from 12 partner organiza- tions and institutions since its inception. 2010–2011 A formal relationship with the Wild Gardens of Acadia is estab- 2014 The Cadillac Summit Steward pro- lished, and an endowment fund initiated, gram is created to reduce visitor impacts on to ensure their future viability. the delicate alpine environment of Acadia’s highest mountain. 2011 The Acadia Youth Technology Team is established to use technology as a 2015 FOA matches a Centennial Chal- Thomas FOA/Julia Walker tool, not a barrier, to youth engagement in lenge Grant to restore historic vistas along Acadia. Acadia’s carriage roads.

Friends of Acadia Journal Fall/Winter 2016 9 Wild Acadia

ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY AND THE ACADIA SOUNDSCAPES By Frederick Bianchi

e live in a culture dominated by the visual. An estimated 90 per- Wcent of information transmitted to the brain is visual, some 10 percent of all of the photos ever taken throughout his- tory have occurred in the last 12 months, and there is a camera in almost everyone’s pocket. But against these odds, we should not dismiss our extraordinary hearing ca- pabilities, the result of 300 million years of evolution. In many cases the sophisti- cation of our hearing exceeds that of our sight. Our perception of the soundscape is not limited by field of vision—we can hear things inaccessible to the eye with the abil- ity to identify, with great accuracy, the pre- cise location of sound in 360-degree space. Through hearing, we analyze and interpret the subtly nuanced soundscape. The National Park Service recognizes the importance of preserving park sound- scapes, with regulations regarding sound-

scape preservation dating back to 1916. Michele Stapleton More recently, management policies were Worcester Polytechnic Institute students Mohammed Alrayas (left) and Andrew Kennedy recording the Aca- established in 2006 to identify what lev- dia soundscape at Blue Hill Overlook on Cadillac Mountain. els of human-caused sound were accept- ment of Transportation, to establish base- engineering, robotics, aerospace engineer- able within parks. These directed park line ambient sound levels—naturally ing, electrical engineering, and music. Ad- managers to (1) measure baseline acoustic occurring sound combined with human- hering closely to the technical and proce- conditions and (2) determine which exist- produced background noise. Human- dural methods used by the Volpe team, the ing or proposed human-made sounds are produced sound might include aircraft, WPI team replicated portions of the initial consistent with park purposes. The NPS hikers, campground noises, human con- study and carefully compared the results has been proactive regarding awareness versation, motor vehicles, cell phone ring to determine if the ambient sound levels and preservation of the park soundscapes tones, or electronic hums. In this equa- in Acadia National Park had changed over and has demonstrated great wisdom and tion, it is the presence of human-produced the past eight years. The team concluded vision in the development of policy. How- sound that stands to dilute and disfigure that overall ambient sound levels had not ever, factors like development and auto the naturally occurring soundscape. To changed significantly since 2005; taken at traffic endanger park soundscapes, espe- determine ambient sound levels, the Volpe face value, this was an encouraging find- cially in a small, community-interwoven team captured 150 days of acoustical data ing. However, as the team began to ana- park like Acadia. Further action must be at nine sites throughout the park. lyze their own work in more detail and taken to protect and preserve the park’s That study was followed up in 2013 by further compare it with the 2005 study, sonic panoramas. a team of research students from Worces- a discouraging trend began to reveal it- The first soundscape monitoring and ter Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, self in the data. While the overall ambi- analysis in Acadia National Park was done drawn from various disciplines such as ent sound levels had remained relatively in 2005 by Volpe, part of the US Depart- math, computer science, environmental stable throughout the park, the presence

10 Fall/Winter 2016 Friends of Acadia Journal of human-produced background sound in WPI colleague V.J. Manzo and I explore the many of the study locations was encroach- motivations and activities of many con- ing upon and, in some locations, overtak- temporary sound artists and the impact of ing the naturally occurring sounds of the their work on environmental awareness. park. These dedicated sound artists are drawn The WPI team observed that there were from varied and diverse backgrounds no lengthy moments when people did not that include music, geophysics, natural come in or out of the Cadillac Mountain sciences, sculpture, philosophy, and art. parking lot, resulting in a predominance John Luther Adams, for example, is a of human and automobile noise, includ- composer and winner of the 2014 Pulitzer ing occasional very loud vehicles such as Prize in Music for his orchestral compo- motorcycles. This corroborated the 2007 sition Become Ocean, which was inspired study, which also observed air tours ap- by the oceans of Alaska and the Pacific proximately 9 percent of the time, and Northwest. London-based Cheryl Leon- commercial jets about 1 percent of the ard creates sound art by recording melting time. Distant hikers, boats, and roadway ice from glaciers in Antarctica. American traffic were audible 64 percent of the time. artist, philosopher, and scientist John Bul-

The natural soundscape, such as wind, M. Ryan litt monitors the seismic vibrations of the birds, and some insects, accounted for Frederick Bianchi field recording in Acadia National earth and creates environmental sound art 26 percent of the observed sounds at the Park. from the result. Awareness and concern summit of Cadillac Mountain. Similar re- nature can inspire art, art in return can for the environment has unified sound art- sults were occurring at other sites within connect us to nature. Making the Aca- ists around the globe under the umbrella the park. dia’s sounds available for artistic use and of acoustic ecology. These artists seek to Based on their research, the WPI team interpretation would be analogous to the alter our perception and heighten our aes- concluded that the continued measuring Hudson River School painters of the mid- thetic appreciation of the soundscape by of ambient sound levels should be sus- 19th century. Working in reaction to the persuading us to pay attention to it. pended to allow the focus of the research Industrial Revolution and in search of an Acoustic ecology is important because to shift. There was now some urgency to American identity, they painted land- and sound provides information about the begin recording, archiving, preserving, seascapes that were the first to use art as a world around us, and while that infor- and documenting the natural sounds of medium to awaken Americans to the hid- mation is sometimes clearly understood Acadia National Park. den wonders and beauty of Mount Des- through scientific quantification, at other Working in collaboration with Dr. Abe ert Island. Through artistic imagery they times it is more appropriately expressed Miller-Rushing, science coordinator for raised awareness and heightened sensibili- through the nuance of art. Sound is a Acadia, a newly formed 2014 WPI re- ties for the appreciation of this wilderness powerful liaison between the environment search team began realizing plans for a environment. Could a similar awareness and the human mind. Sound delivers in- multi-year project of capturing audio re- be achieved today through sound? formation that can trigger associations, cordings of the soundscapes throughout Like the Hudson River School painters, jump-start the imagination, engage the in- the park. The WPI team set out to cap- many artists are working today as advo- tellect, and challenge the mind. Through ture the naturally occurring soundscapes cates and a voice for the environment. listening, we are reminded not only of the of the park including birds, insects, frogs, This aesthetic approach dates back to late beauty, but of the fragility of the natural ocean surf, brooks, and wind blowing 1960s and early 70s, when the modern soundscape. � through the tress. This pursuit would take environmental movement provoked art- the team to the mountain summits, rocky ists to respond. They elaborated on issues FREDERICK BIANCHI is a professor and coasts, saltwater marshes, forests, and such as pollution, biodiversity loss, sus- director of computer music research at the carriage roads of the park. The team tainability, climate change, and resource Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in would then digitally archive the sounds depletion. And as a counterpart to the vi- Worcester, Massachusetts. He is also the di- and make them available to scientists, re- sual arts movement, the field of acoustic rector of WPI’s Bar Harbor, Maine Project searchers, educators, and others. ecology was beginning to emerge around Center. While the project’s goal was to record the same time. Acoustic ecology focused and archive the sounds of Acadia with on the scientific and artistic nature of technical and scientific accuracy, the WPI sound as a way to study the relationship team’s vision included capturing aesthetic between living beings and their environ- and artistic qualities of the Acadia sound- ment. scapes as a way to heighten awareness of In our recent book, Environmental Sound the park’s sonic endangerment. Just as Artists (Oxford University Press 2016), my

Friends of Acadia Journal Fall/Winter 2016 11 Tomorrow’s Stewards

WHERE SCIENCE, NATURE, AND BEAUTY CO-MINGLE By Natalie Overton

n an overcast Monday in July, I vironment, installing scrubbers and other found myself in the passenger equipment in an effort to reduce their pol- Oseat of a National Park Service ve- lution. More recently, however, researchers hicle, contemplating the brown fuzzy dice have found that aerial mercury is reaching swinging from the rearview mirror. A per- Acadia all the way from China, a source sonal touch, I suppose. Sam, project leader once thought to be too distant to affect and designated driver, flipped on the turn Maine. signal as we exited yet another crowded To re-test Acadia’s mercury levels, my parking lot. Abandoning a fruitless search brother, John, and his peers will be sam- for parking at Jordan Pond, we settled on pling from six different locations, including second-best and much more secluded Seal Hodgdon Pond, taking at least twelve indi- Cove Pond. The goal of the day was to make viduals of each fish species included in the some significant headway into the sample study: Small and large mouth bass, all types collection portion of the ponds research of panfish, brown bullhead catfish, brook project—which is to say, do some fishing. trout, lake trout, and landlocked salmon. This research is a follow-up on a proj- These samples will be sent to a lab and their ect that started about 20 years ago when flesh will be tested for mercury. The mer- mercury tests revealed that Hodgdon Pond cury levels will be measured alongside the contained the second highest levels in the age of the sample, determined by the size nation. Back then, everyone understood of the otolith, a certain bone in a fish’s ear. that mercury was being carried on prevail- While the study’s findings will serve as

ing winds from the Midwestern coal-burn- Natalie Overton strong data resources for potential regu- Natalie Overton savors the summit of South Bubble. ing power plants. Though the source was lations, legislation and further research, assumed to have been identified, people the study itself has minimal funding. As a were perplexed that Hodgdon Pond could the mercury until it meets air coming off result, I find myself standing in the grass have outrageous mercury levels while the Atlantic Ocean. At this point mercury at the edge of Seal Cove Pond behind my nearby bodies of water like Jordan Pond will fall into ponds and wetlands along 15-year-old brother and co-volunteer, showed levels far lower. the Maine coast after seemingly “skipping” with Igloo cooler in one hand and a box of The reason was found to be twofold, ly- those further inland. Coastal wetlands and worms at my feet. ing both in the patterns of air circulation marshes, like those surrounding Hodgdon Sam went over into some reeds, hoping along the coast of Maine and in the role of Pond, are “well-known hotspots for stor- for a bird sighting, as John cast out onto the wetlands in the distribution and transfor- ing mercury (Hg) and converting it to its glassy pond. A moment after his worm hit mation of mercury. The elemental mercury more toxic form, methylmercury (MeHg),” the water, John felt a bite and jerked back, in question is released into the air as vapor according to Ariel Lewis, an M.S. at the reeling in hard. “This one’s a keeper,” he from anthropogenic sources like combus- University of Maine, who wrote her disser- said, and as he turned around my eyes were tion in power plants. Mercury in this form tation on Hodgdon Pond’s mercury levels. caught by the glistening, feverishly flop- can remain in the atmosphere for a year, so Mercury from the air and from the wet- ping red-breasted sunfish. I stood there, global air circulation systems can transport lands is distributed to nearby water bodies entranced, as it slowly dawned on me that a it essentially anywhere. As Mercury-vapor- and undergoes bioaccumulation, its levels few minutes ago I had casually volunteered laden air crosses the continent from west to increasing as it travels up the food chain. to be the fish butcher—a decision I fully east (swirling northeastward from May to Once the results of the study were pub- regretted now. (Though I might add that September as it approaches New England, lished, Midwestern power plants took this experience resulted in a more humane, to make a beeline for Maine) it holds onto precautionary measures to protect the en- and dare I say morally sustainable, method

12 Fall/Winter 2016 Friends of Acadia Journal of dispatching the samples.) I knocked the fish on the head with a rock and transferred it to a neatly labeled Ziploc bag and into the cooler. It struck me that this fish was the first of hundreds we would take from these waters by the end of the project. This is all in the name of science, I re- minded myself. But my thoughts were still troubled. Weren’t these the very animals I was trying to preserve? Wasn’t my purpose to enhance their environment and help them thrive? I thought about what would happen if the results came back as many researchers are predicting: with still-high mercury levels, sending waves of conse- quences out to the town’s water facilities, the fisheries, and several levels of park management. How ironic that the same pollutant that sullied these waters years ago became a twisted protector of the envi- ronment, helping to shield these now-quiet shores from the millions of vacationers that come to Acadia each year. I cast a mo- mentarily envious glance over at Sam, who had set up his telescope and was happily squinting after a particularly evasive loon. Having exhausted his chances with the wary fish population at our current loca- tion, John announced that we had to go to Natalie Overton Duck Brook. I checked on our only sam- John Overton prepares his fishing gear during mercury-study sampling in Acadia. ple, making sure it was good and dead, and I sat down at my laptop that evening. She crowds receded into the background, tak- watched my brother as he packed up his looked at me expectantly as I feigned a ing my disillusioned cynicism with them. equipment. He moved quickly and I ad- gracefully thoughtful expression, attempt- The park is a playground for memories, for mired the focus, perseverance, and profes- ing to mask my internal struggle for words. Kodak moments, for glimpses of inspira- sionalism that he had shown in this project. For the right words. tion. It is also a place where science and So used to a fidgety, distractible boy who I thought about my discussion a minute nature and beauty co-mingle, and where a couldn’t make his own lunch, I was happily earlier with David MacDonald, the presi- boy like my brother can find real joy doing surprised that he had found his place here, dent of FOA, who had told me that he and real work to protect it. That’s what I was at least for now. his son had been fishing that day, and that writing about. Acadia National Park has be- At a Friends of Acadia event the other while the mackerel weren’t very big, his come so loved that it has been woven into day, I was trying to explain to a family son had insisted on bringing them home the fabric of the good times when our souls friend how I felt about this project; not the for dinner. As he recounted his story, I sud- glow. It unifies us, and if put into the right one my brother was working on, but the denly saw his sun-soaked day trailing be- hands, Acadia will serve to teach genera- writing I was doing for FOA. I was stand- hind him and behind everyone else on that tions to come an understanding and genu- ing there, straining to grasp the soul of the lawn, who’d been boating or swimming or ine appreciation for the natural treasures of parks: why park visitation has increased hiking, sporting little smiles and sunburns, our world. by more than ten percent each of the past eager to bring their stories, their Acadias, And that, in not so many words, was three years, why, on sunny days, both sides to share. what I told her. � of the road are lined with parked cars, and Somehow I had found the words. It why the equivalent of small talk at a farm- didn’t matter that there was an aggressively NATALIE OVERTON is studying Political ers market is “so, are you planning any obese seagull out there, being overfed by Science at the University of California at hikes or swims for today?” I wanted to get every tourist stopping to see the view. I Santa Barbara, where she is a science and to the heart of our pride and devotion to cared a little less that when I drove around technology reporter for The Daily Nexus, our park, to explain this phenomenon to with Sam there was no parking to be found. the school newspaper. She spent last sum- her as I saw it, and to write about it when The noise and the sunscreen smell and the mer reading, hiking, and volunteering for the Friends of Acadia Journal. Friends of Acadia Journal Fall/Winter 2016 13 Acadia History

MEN CAN’T MOVE MOUNTAINS, BUT MOUNTAINS DO MOVE MEN By Charlie Jacobi

atahdin. The Mount Desert Range. with his own funds as well and poured his death at age 90, in 1944, after 28 years What was it about these mountains money into the park to such an extent that, as a hands-on superintendent. By then, he Kthat moved George B. Dorr and when his once-considerable estate was had conserved 27,870 acres. Percival P. Baxter to give us Acadia Nation- settled, only $25,000 remained. Each man Acadia was no solitary enterprise for al Park and Baxter State Park and become had his ashes scattered on the landscape he Mr. Dorr. Charles W. Eliot and then John arguably Maine’s greatest conservation- had nurtured for so long. D. Rockefeller Jr. contributed their energy, ists? These obsessed men gave everything George Dorr met his mountains when wisdom, and finances. Biographer Ron Epp to create two wholly different mountain his family first visited Mount Desert Island describes Dorr as a gregarious extrovert parks, equally full of wonders and equally in 1868. By 1880, those mountains beck- who made friends with everyone, network- beloved, and accomplished more in the lat- oned out the door of Oldfarm, the family ing (arm twisting?) relentlessly to create his ter half of their long lives than most of us summer home, and the happy hiker in him park. He successfully lobbied the Maine could imagine. No doubt they felt time was flourished. A hundred years ago, odds are legislature to prevent the dismantling of the too short, given the obstacles they faced you would have met him along a trail, per- Trustees and preserve the ability of non- pursuing their late-blooming passions. haps Sieur de Monts Crag, and he would profit organizations to own land. But that Thankfully for us, it was not. have struck up a convivial conversation. He threat likely convinced him that federal A generation separated George Dorr and hiked Dry (now Dorr), Green (now Cadil- ownership would provide the best long- Percival Baxter, but their lives had many lac), Newport (now Champlain)—every term protection for his beloved island—de- similarities. Both grew up with outdoor ad- mountain, again and again, all over the is- spite a national controversy just a few years ventures close to home, in the hinterlands land and far beyond for much of his life. before, which resulted in congressional au- of a Portland, Maine and a Jamaica Plain, And yes, he renamed them too. He met Ka- thorization for the Hetch Hetchy dam and Massachusetts that we would not recognize tahdin at age 71, in 1925, when he joined the flooding of a pristine valley within Yo- today. No nature deficit disorder for them— the expedition of Governor Ralph Owen semite National Park. Thus, as he lobbied instead, the healthy effects of wild country, Brewster and smoked his companions on in Washington DC for a national park to be steeped over time like a proper tea, fostered the trail, summiting first and in moccasins established with donated Trustee lands, he a conservationist mind-set. A strong love no less. also advocated for a National Park Service for nature defined both men: Dorr became Katahdin first presented itself to Per- to oversee and protect the parks. Both were an ardent naturalist, Baxter a lover of ani- cival Baxter on a 1903 fishing trip to Kid- birthed in the summer of 1916. Interest- mals and wildlife. Each inherited a fam- ney Pond. Though not the hiker Dorr was, ingly, even before Percival Baxter became ily virtue of philanthropy, supported their Baxter climbed his now-namesake peak in deeply involved with Katahdin, Dorr wrote home communities in numerous ways, 1920 via the famous Knife Edge arête, re- in support of early efforts to create a nation- travelled widely, absorbed inspiration from portedly saying afterwards, “I wouldn’t do it al park or forest reserve there, describing Henry David Thoreau and Theodore Roos- again for a million; I wouldn’t have missed the area as “…the greatest, wildest, most evelt, and promoted scientific management it for a million.” Yet he did it again in 1932 shot-over game land in the East.” of natural resources. Each also inherited and 1933. Though it never coalesced into a fully co- wealth: Dorr from his maternal grandfather, It’s difficult to pinpoint a precise date herent statement, Dorr’s conservation phi- a successful entrepreneur, and Baxter from when each man’s mountain passion crystal- losophy was one that today’s park managers his father, a successful businessman and lized. Threats of logging and of private and would readily recognize: a complex conjoin- former mayor of Portland. Neither married. commercial development motivated each. ing of natural and cultural landscapes, with The parks became their children, on whom Perhaps George Dorr’s preoccupation with minimal disturbance to nature. Though he they spent their inheritance. Baxter not only what is now Acadia began at age 47, with wrote not infrequently about preserving the bought the lands with his own money but the first meeting of the Hancock Country wild character of the island landscape, there established trust funds to support the park Trustees of Public Reservations (hereafter is no evidence that he was conflicted about upon his death. Dorr purchased much land the Trustees) in 1901. It did not end until his relationship with John D. Rockefeller Jr.

14 Fall/Winter 2016 Friends of Acadia Journal NPS/Acadia National Park Archives This iconic image of George B. Dorr on the Beachcroft Trail on Huguenot Head shows the “Father of Acadia” where he most loved to be: climbing one of Acadia’s mountains. and the development of Acadia’s motor and was the de facto manager of his namesake forever be kept as a sanctuary for the wild carriage roads, which was controversial in park until his death in 1969, at age 92. beasts and birds…” Despite Baxter’s love for the summer community. Like Dorr, intent on preserving the Trust- history, the protection of cultural resources Similarly, Percival Baxter’s “Magnificent ees’ right to hold lands, Baxter persuaded and landscapes are not within the mission Obsession,” as biographer Neil Rolde has the Maine legislature to pass a bill in 1919 of Baxter State Park. The preservation of na- described it, could be said to have begun in allowing the state to accept gifts of private ture, especially wildlife, is paramount. 1919 when, as a 42-year-old state legislator, lands for parks. At the time, few of his legis- Each man launched his land acquisitions he introduced a bill in the Maine Senate to lative colleagues could imagine why anyone by taking the high ground. For the Trustees create a Mount Katahdin State Park. That ef- would want to give land to the government. on Mount Desert Island, the first substantial fort failed, as did similar ones when he was Unlike Dorr, however, Baxter fought efforts gift came from summer resident and Dorr governor in the early 1920s. Later, out of to create a national park at Katahdin be- friend Eliza Homans in May 1908. She gave politics, he saw that his only path to a pub- cause he objected to the development and a small mountain, The Beehive, along with a lic park was to do it himself. And that’s what commercialization then happening in some small pond, The Bowl, for public use. Then he did—unlike Dorr, entirely alone. of the national parks. And unlike Dorr, he Dorr immediately set his sights on Green Between 1931 and 1963 Baxter pur- saw the Hetch Hetchy dam controversy in (Cadillac) Mountain, the commanding high chased 28 parcels of land totaling 201,000 Yosemite as an illustration of the perils and point on Mount Desert Island. It fell to his acres and, through deeds of trust specifying impermanence of federal park status. powers of persuasion and the mapmaker’s how the lands were to be managed, gave Baxter wanted something more securely green palette before the end of the year. them to the people of Maine for a state park. protected and distinctly different—a wil- Baxter’s laser-focused initial purchase con- Although close to family and friends, Baxter derness park. The first deed of trust gifting sisted of monolithic Katahdin along with has been described as a solitary man. But land to the state in 1931 made this clear: Chimney Pond, set below the peak in a dra- the politician in him knew how to negotiate the land “shall forever be used for public matic glacial cirque of near-vertical granite and close a deal. He never served officially park and recreational purposes, shall for- walls. Mountains mattered. For both men, as park director but, make no mistake: he ever be left in its natural wild state, shall many more mountains followed.

Friends of Acadia Journal Fall/Winter 2016 15 IN MEMORIAM We gratefully acknowledge gifts received in memory of:

Bill and Gerry Albert Elinor Moore Stephen Andrews Richard Morgan Barbara Arrington Marie Murphy- Elizabeth C. Atterbury Mancuso William C. Bacon Marie Neiber Ruth M. Batty Vincent Nobrega Eileen Tateo Beebe Dr. Kenneth Scott Nord Meghan Kyla Tateo Patricia Norris Beebe Eugene C. Olsen Geraldine Bodwell Elizabeth E. Owens Brandy, my dog and best Robert P. “Rob” Palmer friend Patricia Paris Dorothy and John David Patterson Brooks Sarah Pette William Clack Dodie and Eliot Pierce Dick Cossaboon Pooka Warren E. Davis Spencer Porter Vance Dearborn Donald Potter Raymond A. Dietz Jr. Simone Poulin George B. Dorr Roger Ptak Dylan David Rabasca Elizabeth C. Epp Sylvia Rich Francis C. and Rachel W. Theresa Riley Evans Connie and Joe Rossi Dani Faramelli Paul Rousseau

Kevin P. Farr Ursula and Ernst Baxter Collection Maine State Library/Percival William D. Fleming Saywerin Percival Proctor Baxter (right) stands with Katahdin in the background, likely in the 1960s. With him is Jerry Fogler Penelope Sharp Baxter State Park’s superintendent at that time, Helon Taylor. Richard M. Foster Jeanne B. Sharpe Richard Frost Otto M. Siegrist Barbara and Alfred Mark Simon Percival Baxter once said his land acquisi- Only our dedication, equally deep, will Gallmeier Bob Sinnett Nicholas Gervasio Denise DeSio tions “…would remind you of your grand- forestall erosion of these visions and propel Al Glover Sokolovski mother’s patchwork quilt, which finally in them into the future. No worries there. To Diana S. Gordon William St. Laurent Jimmy Guteman Johanna Steiner some mysterious way came out of the con- paraphrase John Muir, the mountains are in Jerry Head Carol J. Storr fusion into one large piece.” The quilt meta- us. Some mysterious quality, embodied by Chuck Herrick Charles Strange James M. Hickey Ronald J. Stueber phor is an even better fit for Acadia, where these mountains, moved both George Dorr Louis G. Hill Eleanor Swartz holes in the fabric yet need patches. No evi- and Percival Baxter. It moves us too. � John Philip Hoche Mary Taylor Virginia Fenno Hopkins Lindsay Teeple Woods dence suggests these men ever met, but each Bob and Anne Horn David A. Timmons was well-read and surely each knew what CHARLIE JACOBI is past president of the Jane D. Hunter Paul Todd Jake Diane Toth the other was up to. Quilts aside, maps are Friends of Baxter State Park and wrote this Eric Keller Gerald Treadwell instruments of seduction and wellsprings article as an Acadia Centennial Partner. Alton R. Kenney Larry Valentino Paul and Erminie Knight Theresa M. Waldron of vision. I can see each man sitting in his He is also a visitor use specialist at Acadia John Kunz Isabelle and George study late at night, the maps sprawled out National Park and understands that moun- Edward and Dorothy Weisser LaBonté Robert C. Wendt on the desk, poring over the priorities and tains move women, too. Lady Moquin Hugh White possibilities, the hurdles, deals, and delicate Joe and Jan Ledford J.J. Wieckowski Shep Lee Collin Wild negotiations ahead. For more information about George Dorr William Lerch Robert J. Work Each was a visionary, but how big was and Percival Baxter, see these sources: Ka- Ann Kelly Locklair Fabronia Macul that vision at the start and how did it evolve? tahdin: An Historic Journey by John Neff; Alan Madeira Where, if at all, did they see it ending? We Legacy of a Lifetime: The Story of Baxter John Marconi June 1–September 30, Thomas H. McCoy 2016 don’t fully know. Death intervened. We do State Park by John Hakola; The Baxters of David Elmslie Moore know that each saw a promising future for Maine: Downeast Visionaries by Neil Rolde; the degraded lands they sought and bought Governor Baxter’s Magnificent Obsession. A under growing and sometimes intense op- Documentary History of Baxter State Park, position. We do know that each expanded 1931–2006 by Howard Whitcomb; Creat- his vision beyond the highest peak—to the ing Acadia National Park: The Biography of seashore for Dorr and to northern moun- George Dorr by Ronald H. Epp. With ap- tains, valleys, and streams for Baxter. preciation to W. Kent Olson and Jack Per- Acadia turns 100 this year. Baxter State kins, who wrote the script and narrated Park turns 85 and its centennial does not the Friends of Acadia video Preserving Aca- seem so distant anymore. Each park now has dia (1999), which includes the following the longevity of its founder and has weath- quote: “It is said that men cannot move ered well, despite continuing challenges. mountains but a mountain can, indeed, Only deep time erodes granitic mountains. move a man.”

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We are pleased to welcome our Carol Blan Sarah and Tom Chondler Diane Delorme Francois Forget newest friends: Bonnie and Russell Blanck Christa Chu and Andrew Terrie Demar Michael Formica and Bob Blaze Schmidt Stephen Demetrick Hiemstra Abbot Downing Susan Block Kathleen Churchill Richard Demmler Patricia Fox Rebecca and David Abbott Margaret Blohm and Steve Jennifer Cianciolo Judy Dempsey Melanie Fraenkel Kathy and Kent Abrams Stoessel Wendy and George Ciciotte Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Demsey Michael Francis Lynn Abramson Nancy and Jerry Blondin Jacqueline Clark Alianna Deters Sherry and Bruce Frankel Acadia Trail Mix Carol Blusberg and David Janice and Joseph Clark Janis and David Detlefs Paul Freas Gary Ackendorf Wilson Theresa and Melvin Clark Aaron Devaux Robert Freeman Gus Agudelo Bobby Van’s Steakhouse Joan Clarke Laura and Robert Dezort Frenchman Bay Research Rebecca Albert Judy Bodwell CLF-Stable Charles Diaco Company Paul Alessi Lori and Jim Boes Anna and Mark Cloutier Veronica Diaz and India Foster Sandra Friedlander Barbara and Wayne Alexander Cindy Boling CMS Photography Elizabeth Dilling Jocelyn Friedman Bonnie Alexander Jeanne and Gerald Boltz Coastal Eye Care Alec Dinapli Friends of Jimmy Carter All Souls Congregational Rafal Boni Cala Coffman Eileen and Frank Dincuff Marianne Froling Church Women’s Association Robin and Gary Bonner Gerald Cohen Ruth Dixon Frost Farms Alternative Bronco Breaks René Bookoff Chadwick Collins Kay Doaring Leslie Fry and Martha Anderson Becki Anders Donna Bourgault Jonathan Conant Steve Doller Lisa and Dan Fuller Pepper Anderson Bovey Castle Suzan Condren Jason Dominick Sharon Gaber Sharon Anderson Sheila Boyce Annette Conklin Olivia Donahue Melissa Gaeke Eric Andrews Lisa Bradney Kate and Paul Conklin William Donahue Julie Gangenmi Nancy and Jim Andrews Donald Bragg Jane and Dave Conley Donald Vincent Rainville, Artist Paul Garth Paul Andrews Olivia Brangan Judith Conlon Sara Donaldson Michellle Gastil Priscilla Annamanthodo and Nancy Braus Julianna Connolly and Brian Andrea and Michael Dorsey Janice Gaswind Nigel Twose Edward Breen McDonnell Downeast Windjammer Cruises Lee Gatewood Jane Anthony and Kevin Porter Charles Brennan Michael Connolly Patricia Doyle GCFM Convention Theo Antonetz Scott Bridger Rachel Conrad and Thomas Ava Drennan James Gearin Lisa Anzardo Tamika Brierley Rooney Helen Drobnis Susan and Steve Geiger Valerie Aponik April and Kenneth Briggs Gale and John Consigli Ann and Josh Dudeck Justine and Alfred Gengras Aragosta Restaurant Ashleigh Briggs Michael Constandy Robert Dworkin Karen and Greg Gerdes Barbara Ardary Donald Brindley Linda and Ken Cooksey Susan and Dwayne Dyste Cathy and Joe Gerstner Argosy Gallery Deborah Bront-Deitch Gordon Cooper Jerrie Earthman Chris Giametta Sallie and Michael Arndt Brooklin Boat Yard Linda and Joseph Coppola Phyllis and John Eckstein Ron Gilbert Joanne Arroyo Astri Brooks Rena and Lawrance Coron Jan Bird and Scott Eden Dany and David Gingrich ART on West Gallery Cheryl Brown Tyler Corwin Eden Valley Farm Susan Gingrich and Paul Rudd Artemis Gallery Juliette Brown Erin and Ken Cosgrove James L. 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18 Fall/Winter 2016 Friends of Acadia Journal Judith Sandblom Jennifer Streeter Jonathan Wechsler Lynn Sanglier Joanie Stringer Ann Wegman IN NOMINE We gratefully acknowledge gifts received in honor of: Paula Santacroce Janet and Marc Suarez Heather Welch Joyce Sapara-Grant Fred Swain Mary Lee and Jim Wetzel Acadia’s 100th Anniversary Regina Sarcone Swallowfield Collection Brenda Whalen Acadia Second Century Campaign Rachel and Art Savage John Swanson Debbie and Cooper White All park rangers Deb and Dan Saygers Judith Sweeney John White Stephen Andrews Teresa Schaefer Marsha Sykes Mary-Beth and George Whiteside Dan Arnold’s 76th birthday Glenna Scharon Kathy Szatkowski Denise and Mike Wible A trail crew member who assisted me Terri and David Scheff Robert Taggart Roger Widiens Bob and Ingrid Bahler Leslie Schiff Marilyn and Vincent Talerico Kathleen Wigginton Jay Baker Susan Schleicher Mia Taradash Susan Wilcox Roy and Helen Barrette th Jeanne Schmidt Diana Taylor Beth Wilkins Helen and Ken Beal’s 50 wedding anniversary Gene Schmitt Ellen Taylor Ann Willever and Jake Jacobson Bill and Mary Black Karen Schmitt Lawrence Taylor Jon Williams Brown/Siniak Bob Clark Jeffrey Schulberg The Lyle Foundation Kathryn Williams and Carl Steve Clement Rebecca and Andy Schwam Megan Thellen Eastman Acadia Courville Anna Schwartz Elizabeth and Paul Thibeault Paul Williamson Richard Daniel Robert Seale Katherine and Alan Thibeault Shari Willis Jay and Nisha Dearborn Samantha and Christopher Thomas Thomson Sandy and Karl Willman Vince Delmore Seherr-Thoss Sydney Thompson and Andrew Rachel and Eric Wills Esme Donahue Jonathan Sellman O’Toole Betsy Wisch and Stephen Jelinck Geoffrey Fisher Anthony Servedio Janet Thorson Lisa Wilson Randy Goldberg Abigail and Bill Sessions Patricia Thorton Rachel and Marc Wilson Elizabeth Keucher Gorer Myra Sessions and Stephen Ingalls Meagan and PJ Thrasher Roger Wilson Wally Grant Carolyn and Robert Seston Chris Thurston Windham Animal Hospital Wally and Carol Gray Margaret Seton and Dr. Joseph Barry Tils Allen Witham John Hirschenhofer Jacobson Shannon Tittle Karen Witmer Laurie and Art Horsch Lauren and David Shafer Kathy Titus Terry and Bill Witowsky Keepers of Baker Island Holly Shaw Emician Toba Ellen and Michael Wlody Sarah Kirschbaum Melanie and Henry Shearer Matthew Todd Kathryn Wolfe Margot Kohorn John Sheehan Andrea Tokheim Mary Wolyniak Anne Kozak Leonard Lapidus Linda and John Shepard Patricia Tomlinson Avril Wood Marie Lavelle Michael Shewokis Marilyn and Ted Tompkins Mary and Alan Woodman Mr. and Mrs. Allan MacDonald Angela Shoemake Guiselle Torres Whitney Wootton Bob and Phyllis Miller Showtime Stall Rentals Linda and Jim Tower Marie Work Conrad Minnich Kathy Shulman and Jack Boyson John Towle Sharon Wright Wes Neal Carrie and Ryan Shultz Lauren Tozzi Eleanor Yanalunas Ken Olson Wasseem Sidhom Tracy Design/Peg’s Garden Carol Yancey Our grandchildren Katie and Jeremy Siek Bea Trainer Dean Young Stephanie Pelugo Char and Craig Sievert Marie Triah Judy and Don Young Charlotte and Donald Perlroth Anna Simmons Amy Trimarco Kristine and Robert Young Lili Pew and Carol Bult Jennifer Simon and Fred Phillips Ruchie and Anshu Trivedi Ilana Zabawa Pierre Monteux School Linda Simon Elaine and Bill Trutor Lisa and Salo Zelermyer Susan Randall-Harbert Kathryn Simone Debra Tucker and Neil Berman Jennifer and Clark Zimmerman Donna Reis Janice Sinnett Jane and James Tucker Steve Zirnkilton Jr. Betsy Roberts and John MacDuffie Marguerite Sinnett Nancy and Al Tuthill Christopher Zitnay and John Hong The Savage and Nestor families Robert Sitton Joan Tyson Nancy and Edward Zoller The sister of Cynthia Schwecher Elizabeth Skinner Suzanne and Rick Ulrich Deb Zurenda Elizabeth Seherr-Thoss Mark Simon Nancy Skinner and Mike Sage Ulrike Welsch Photography Lilah Solomon Gordon Skjeie Marguerite Urban E. Roger Stewart June 1–September 30, 2016 Candace and Richard Smith Penny and Peter Vail Gerald Treadwell Charlotte Smith Marina Valdes Robert Work James Smith Melissa and Sean Valentine Juliette Smith Brian Valentino Keith Smith Robert Valentino Margaret and Wayne Smith Robert Van Cleave June 1–September 30, 2016 Meg and Michael Smith Randy Van Coughnett Kirsten Snyder Janis and Tony van Hasselt Beatriz Solorzano Lonnie Vance Gina Sonder and Lewis Dalven Dennis Varney Johanna and Peter Sparling Nancy and John Vatislas Kara and Talon Sprague Linda Vecchione Karen Sprengel Maria Vennewitz Spruce & Gussy Tasos Verdi Jamien St. Pierre Paul Versace Mica Stark Barbara and Warren Vienneau Erin and Leo Steffens Jennifer Vinck Monique and Ruedi Steiger Brant Viner Bradley Stevens Andrew Volin David and Chris Stewart Meital Waibsnaider Linda and Roger Stewart Mary and Harvey Waller Andrew Stokes Janet Walton Robert Stone Gordon Waring Charlie Storey Robert Waters A. Thomas Storr Lisa and Bill Watkins Samantha Story W. Bell and Anne Watkins Joy Strathman Elaine Webb

Madeline Straus Nancy Webber FOA/Aimee Beal Church Melinda Street Erica Webster and Richard Fox Heart stone at Hunters Beach. Friends of Acadia Journal Fall/Winter 2016 19 Updates

The Gift of Acadia After a hot and muggy summer, the morning of August 27th dawned with a crisp, blue sky and a light breeze from the north—a perfect Acadia day. Hundreds of residents and visi- tors gathered on the Jordan Pond tea lawn for a community celebration of “The Gift of Acadia.” This Acadia Centennial event was planned by Acadia National Park and the Centennial Task Force as a way to honor the contributions of the founders of the park, recognize the many ways that Acadia and the national parks as a whole enrich our

lives, and enlist the next generation in car- Thomas FOA/Julia Walker All four members of Maine’s Congressional delegation attended the Gift of Acadia celebration and after- ing for our beloved Acadia. ward accepted FOA’s thanks—along with handsome FOA hats!—for their commitment to the park at an The Burnurwurbskek Singers from the informal luncheon. Left to right: FOA board chair Ed Samek, Senator Angus King, Senator Susan Collins, Penobscot Nation began the ceremony with Representative Bruce Poliquin, Representative Chellie Pingree, and FOA president David MacDonald. drumming and dancing. All four members of Maine’s Congressional delegation spoke about their own relationships with this spe- cial place—from Representative Poliquin mentioning Acadia as a place of healing after the death of his wife to Representative Pin- gree admitting to spending the night on Ca- dillac as a young College of the Atlantic stu- dent. Michael Reynolds, the National Park Service deputy director of operations, and ANP superintendent Kevin Schneider swore in a new group of Centennial Junior Rang- ers, a plaque honoring John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s contributions to Acadia was dedicated, and a spirited community chorus led the au- dience in renditions of “This Land is Your Land” and “America the Beautiful.” Also during the event, Friends of Acadia and the Acadia Centennial Task Force were FOA/Julia Walker Thomas FOA/Julia Walker honored with a 2016 NPS Director’s Partner- NPS representatives Kevin Schneider (far left) and Michael Reynolds (far right) stand with FOA board ship Award for their work in “empowering chair Ed Samek, Centennial Task Force co-chairs Jack Russell and Cookie Horner, and FOA president and orchestrating the state-wide participa- David MacDonald (left to right) during the presentation of the NPS Director’s Partnership Award. The new Rockefeller plaque is displayed at the right. tion in the 100th Anniversary of Acadia Na- tional Park.” The Acadia Centennial celebra- ership and service, presenting Horner and “The event at Jordan Pond was an in- tion has accrued additional honors this year Russell with the Marianne Edwards Award credible outpouring of community support for Friends of Acadia, the Acadia Centennial and the Sunbeam Award at the organiza- and love for Acadia,” remarked Stephanie Task Force, and co-chairs Jack Russell and tions’ respective annual meetings in July and Clement, FOA conservation director. “With Cookie Horner. In March, FOA received an August. In October, FOA received the Busi- a backdrop of Jordan Pond and Acadia’s honorable mention from the Public Lands ness of the Year Award from the Bar Harbor mountains, the day could not have been Alliance for an Outstanding Public Engage- Chamber of Commerce, recognizing FOA’s more perfect.” The event was graciously ment for a Program or Service. Friends of role as the catalyst, fiscal agent, and support supported by the fourteen Acadia Centen- Acadia and the Maine Seacoast Mission each structure for the Acadia Centennial Task nial Signature Sponsors, who contributed recognized the co-chairs’ remarkable lead- Force and the centennial celebrations. funds and in-kind media support through-

20 Fall/Winter 2016 Friends of Acadia Journal out the year. Dawnland, the Mount Desert Island Regional School System, First Na- tional Bank, Northeast Harbor Ambulance

Service, Oli’s Trolley, and Wallace Events TM provided additional funding, transportation services, public safety, and refreshments for the event.

An Amazing Centennial The Acadia National Park Centennial has been an amazing year of events, products, and programs to celebrate the founding of Acadia and inspire our next century of A proud Acadia Centennial Partner conservation. More than 450 organizations, businesses, and individuals have signed on Signature Sponsor as Acadia Centennial Partners (ACPs), and Acadia National Park over 200 events and programs have been 2016 Centennial Celebration held across Maine—from art and historical exhibits to lectures, concerts, and hikes. More than 100 products were officially ap- Authors Dolores Kong and Dan Ring also write proved as Acadia Centennial merchandise, a blog at www.acadiaonmymind.com www.bhbt.com • 888-853-7100 enabling them to use the Acadia Centen- New “Hiking Acadia” edition – 2016 nial logo or sport official Centennial prod- uct stickers, tags, and display cards. Prod- ucts ranged from blueberry jam to jewelry, bookmarks, ornaments, t-shirts, and more. T HE N EXT L EVELOF S ERVICE ACP retailers or wholesalers (and in some Representing unique properties for buyers and sellers cases, both) agreed to donate at least five Story Litchfield percent of their proceeds to Friends of Aca- Proudly serving Mount Desert Kristi Jacoby dia to benefit programs in the park. Island since 1883 207-276-3840 Many ACPs contributed financially to the Luncheon ~ Afternoon Tea ~ Dinner 4A Tracy Road, Northeast Harbor, ME celebration, enabling FOA and the Centen- Reservations 207-276-3344 nial Task Force to put together the Acadia www.asticou.com Centennial website at www.acadiacenten- nial2016.org, a one-stop destination for residents and visitors to find out about partners, events, and products. Funding from signature sponsors and partners also made possible a robust social media pres- ence, periodic gatherings of the ACPs, and outreach to residents and visitors across the state and beyond. Friends of Acadia and the Acadia Cen- tennial Task Force are eternally grateful for the work of all of the Acadia Centen- Bar Harbor nial Partners and their commitment to For the cyclist looking Historical Society celebrate our past and inspire our future. for a difference... Their combined effort created a year-long, Come view Bar Harbor’s history Maine-wide, world-welcoming celebra- Open mid-June to mid-October tion of our park and enabled many of us Monday through Friday 1–4 pm to reconnect with and expand our under- MAINE, USAUSA 33 Ledgelawn Avenue standing of Acadia. Centennial events will Locally owned and operated Bar Harbor, Maine continue through the remainder of 2016, for over 35 years 207-288-0000 • 207-288-3807 and many local stores and online retailers 141 Cottage Street, Bar Harbor (207) 288-3886 www.barharborhistorical.org will offer their centennial products through www.barharborborbike.com facebook.com/bhhistsoc/

Friends of Acadia Journal Fall/Winter 2016 21 the holiday season. Stay tuned to the Aca- dia Centennial website, and be sure to sup- port businesses and organizations display- ing the Acadia Centennial “official partner” window cling or the Acadia Centennial flag. We are proud to support Friends of Acadia Fresh Maine lobster and seafood on the pier, Acadia’s Transportation Planning or shipped to your home year round. As part of its multi-year transportation Boaters welcome! Tie up and refuel while you eat. 182 Clark Point Rd, Southwest Harbor planning initiative, Acadia National Park Open 11:00am - 9:00pm | bealslobster.com released preliminary concepts in October for addressing interrelated transportation issues including congestion, safety, natu- ral resource protection, and positive visi- A Classic Bar Harbor Hotel tor experience. The ideas were wide rang- ing—everything from parking reservations Enjoy our on-site Eden Spa & to vehicle size restrictions to reducing the Looking Glass Restaurant number of entrances to the Park Loop a Consecutive Winner of the Road. The National Park Service will use Wine Spectator Award of Excellence. public feedback on these draft concepts 90 Eden Street | (207) 288-3348 to develop formal alternatives for the draft www.barharborhotel.com www.coplonassociates.com plan and environmental impact statement, 207.288.4122 | Bar Harbor, Maine which will be presented for another round LANDSCAPE DESIGN of public comment over the winter of 2017. Friends of Acadia has a board committee S TONE W ALLS & T ERRACES that has been working simultaneously with L IGHTING , S PAS , & P OOLS this transportation planning initiative, both S HORELINE R ESTORATION to develop FOA’s official comments during each public comment period of the process and to brainstorm ways that FOA can help advance the plan through pilot projects, background research, or education. Al- ready we have invested in three programs focused on Cadillac Mountain: the Cadil- lac Summit Stewards, a study to prepare for vegetation restoration at the summit, and modeling work to understand road, Thunder Hole parking, and pedestrian patterns on the Cadillac Mountain summit—such as how frequently thresh- Jordan Pond House olds for parking (in managed and unman- AWNLAND aged scenarios) and crowding (measured by physical crowding and visual crowding DOWNEAST && MMIDID--COAST MMAINE D TEL::    tolerance) are exceeded throughout the WWW..BURDICKASSOCIATES..COM season and within a 24-hour period, based on the number of vehicles on the Cadillac Happiness is a warm stove Summit Road. Looking ahead, FOA’s flexibility and agil- ity in providing funding and working with outside contractors means that there are many ways we can continue to enhance Proud to the planning work. We might be asked to extend the Cadillac modeling to other Support Friends areas of the park, such as Ocean Drive, to of Acadia! Ellsworth - 403 High St., 667-4122 provide another tool for estimating how Brewer - 603 Wilson St., 989-0077 the transportation alternatives will affect, www.mainestoves.com 22 Fall/Winter 2016 Friends of Acadia Journal In total, L.L.Bean has contributed more than $4 million to Acadia National Park projects through Friends of Acadia.

Protecting the Wild Gardens Closing up the Wild Gardens of Acadia this fall was a lot easier than in the past, thanks to permanent deer fencing installed around the entire perimeter. Previously, Wild Gar- dens volunteers spent many hours placing cages over at-risk plants and encircling particularly vulnerable habitats, like the mountain, with temporary fencing. Despite these efforts, voracious deer seemed to find new plants to enjoy each spring. White-tailed deer can jump fences of seven feet or more, so the fencing needed to be high but still allow birds and small wildlife to move freely through it. The Wild Gardens Committee worked with the Na- tional Park Service on a fence design that

FOA/Julia Walker Thomas FOA/Julia Walker was sensitive to wildlife and the historic Riders on the Island Explorer enjoy a magnificent view of South Bubble in fall. setting of Sieur de Monts. The fence uses a generously-sized mesh topped by horizon- for example, trail usage or parking. We critically needed funding that is matched tally-strung wires; wooden posts and hand- also might help establish more pilot proj- by a transit fee incorporated into Acadia some wooden gates at the entrance and exit ects as helpful to the park. The possibilities National Park entrance passes, funding complete the structure. Volunteers working for FOA investments in transportation are from the Maine Department of Transporta- in the park sign shop over the winter will numerous, but will need to be tied to the tion, and contributions from area towns, prepare signs to ensure that visitors feel greater transportation plan in order to be businesses with scheduled stops, and pas- welcome to enter the gardens year-round, effective. We encourage all our members sengers who donate while riding the buses. even if the gates are closed. to stay abreast of the park’s transportation plan by visiting parkplanning.nps.gov/ ACADTransportationPlan and providing your own comments when opportunities arise.

L.L.Bean Steps up Again On July 5th, visitors and the press gathered on the Jordan Pond tea lawn as L.L.Bean’s president & CEO, Stephen Smith, pledged on behalf of the outdoor retailer an addi- tional $1 million to Friends of Acadia to benefit the Island Explorer bus system. L.L.Bean’s gift will help support the opera- tions of the free, propane-powered bus sys- tem over the next five years. Since its inception in 1999, the Island Explorer has carried more than 6.5 million passengers, reducing vehicle trips by more than 2.3 million and eliminating more than 32 tons of smog-causing pollutants and more than 21,000 tons of greenhouse gas- es. L.L.Bean has been a vital partner in the FOA/Julia Walker Thomas FOA/Julia Walker growth of the Island Explorer, providing The lovely new entrance gate at the Wild Gardens of Acadia.

Friends of Acadia Journal Fall/Winter 2016 23 for use by the park and FOA. The team included four high-school age teens and was led by Will Greene, a talented filmmaker and recent MDI High School graduate. Using equipment donated by Canon U.S.A., the AYTT collected content for use on the park’s social media channels throughout the busy centennial summer. In addition, the Digital Media Interpretation Kit (DMIK), which enables visitors to more easily see the nesting peregrine falcons at The Precipice, was handed over to Acadia National Park staff for continued use in the raptor program. The team reported that they “loved” this job and thought the summer was very productive. Team members were NPS/Heather Cooney Members of the 2016 Acadia Youth Conservation Corps pause to pose on Beech Mountain. also very excited to build their portfolios for use in college applications. Tomorrow’s Stewards Getting or mentors registered, the most that have The Cadillac Summit Stewards program Started Today ever participated. A completely new set of is going strong for the third year in a row, The Acadia Youth Conservation Corps adventures for the Acadia Centennial had acting as the eyes and ears of the park on (AYCC) had a full crew of dedicated teens teams “celebrating our past and inspiring Cadillac Mountain during the summer and for eight weeks this summer. Working with our future” through activities that tie in fall. While the team’s focus was primarily National Park Service trail crew leaders, to fun facts about historic events, people, on interpretive visitor contacts, they also they focused on popular Beech Mountain, and places; plus things teams can do to assisted Acadia’s resource management staff with additional trail rehabilitation projects protect Acadia and other parks into the with trail maintenance and law enforcement on the Long Pond and Canada Cliffs trails. future. Many teams commented on how The Canada Cliffs Trail was originally built much they enjoyed this year’s centennial by the Civilian Conservation Corp and edition of Acadia Quest, which took them features amazing cliffside views. The AYCC to new locations in and around the park and constructed a new set of granite stairs on brought Acadia’s history alive. In addition, the trail, which required them to learn high the digital launch of Acadia Quest on the lining, a specialized wire pulley system that Chimani Acadia National Park app for smart can safely move the heavy steps. At the end phones was successful, with many teams of the season, the AYCC members reported sharing on social media their collection of that high lining was their favorite skill digital Acadia Quest badges. learned this summer. The Acadia Youth Technology Team The Acadia Centennial Quest saw more (AYTT) worked for ten weeks this summer than 300 teams of kids and their families on amazing photography and videography

ANP graphics ranger and AYTT supervisor Kristi Rugg checks her settings during an AYTT shoot on Ocean Drive, looking across Frenchman Bay to Schoodic Point. Emma Forthover, the AYTT member who shot this photo, specialized in photo-

Jennifer Van Donger Jennifer Van documenting the team’s activities. Links to more Team Scooterhead Butterflies carried their “explorer’s flag” to the top of Champlain Mountain, in the photographs and the team’s amazing final video process learning about the mountain’s namesake and his place in Acadia’s history. can be found online at friendsofacadia.org. 242424 Fall/Winter 2016 Friends of Acadia Journal In Gratitude

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Friends of Acadia Journal Fall/Winter 2016 25 staff with traffic issues at the summit. As the Cadillac Summit Stewards hiked the trails and roved the summit of Cadillac Mountain during their daily patrols, they gathered data on visitor behavior, questions, and challenges, and used their observations to develop suggestions on possible improvements for the summit, from additional trash cans and ash trays to new sidewalks and informational signs. The team even inspired one visitor to make a $1,000 donation to FOA as a result of his wonderful experience with a Cadillac Summit Steward on the trail. It’s real. The new Yellow Bus Fund was a big It just sounds like success in 2016, enabling more than 750 science ction... students to visit Acadia, many for their first time. The program makes transportation grants to schools so that students can came to Acadia to participate in ranger-led programs here. Fourteen grants were distributed to LSR_FriendsAcadia_2.25x1.9_020716_Layout 1schools 2/7 from all over Maine, including Skowhegan, Brewer, Oakland, Windsor, e revolutionary work of the scientists at Waterville, and Deer Isle-Stonington. the MDI Biological Laboratory is dedicated Maranacook Community Middle School in to improving human health and well-being Readfield camped at Seawall Campground through basic research, education, and during their visit; teacher Dan Holman ventures that transform discoveries into cures. reported, “Our Acadia team completed our e future can be here sooner Insurance for MDI 3 day trip to Acadia. It was fantastic and a than you think. Families and Businesses best case scenario of a middle school visiting Since 1932 the park. I can’t overstate our gratitude. A huge thank you to Friends of Acadia for 159 OLD BAR HARBOR ROAD 339 Main Street, Southwest Harbor SALISBURY COVE, MAINE 04609 providing us scholarship funds for our trip.” LSRIns.com | (207)244-7246 Annual Benefit Supports Village Hop on Oli’s Trolley and explore Acadia National Park on board our Connector Trails beautiful, old-fashioned trolleys BIODYNAMIC FARM FOR SALE In a year full of events marking Acadia’s th with all the modern conveniences. 80 Acres Near Acadia National Parks Centennial, Friends of Acadia’s 27 Annual Commercial Property on 3000 Ft. Rt 1 Benefit stood out as a wonderful celebration Our tours are fully narrated! *Farmstand *4 Wells *Aquifer *Gravel of conservation and philanthropy, raising es- *Beaver Pond *Mobile Home *Airstream sential funds and inspiring enthusiasm and commitment to care for Acadia as it passes 1-866-987-6553 Star Root Farm, Hancock, ME the century mark. olistrolley.com 808-937-9104 http://starrootfarm.info As in past years, the paddle raise was a Bar Harbor highlight of the evening, during which 60 donors made an on-the-spot donation to collectively contribute $318,000 to restore the historic Seaside Path in Seal Harbor and other village connector trails. The Seaside Path, linking Jordan Pond and Seal Harbor OLI’S TROLLEY Beach, was built by the Seal Harbor Village Improvement Society at the end of the 1800s. It traverses both park and private land, winds though mossy, coniferous forest, Oli’s Trolley Gift Shops - 1 West Street and passes under the triple-arched Stanley Oli’s Trolley Station - 55 West Street 26 Fall/Winter 2016 Friends of Acadia Journal Brook carriage road bridge. As Acadia enters its second century, restoring or establishing village connector trails is an important part of the park’s strategy to reduce traffic and provide car-free experiences in Acadia, and Friends of Acadia is a key partner in this effort. Co-chairs Whitney Kroeger Connor and Elizabeth Seherr-Thoss led the Benefit Committee’s work to plan this memorable evening on the Asticou Inn’s seaside lawn. Inspired by Acadia’s Centennial tagline— celebrate our past, inspire our future—they quickly realized this would be the perfect year to honor the past chairs, co-chairs, and long-serving Benefit Committee members. Longtime committee member and artist

Leslie Fogg created two watercolor paintings FOA/Aimee Beal Church for certificates thanking these committed Canon Visits Acadia: Canon U.S.A., the lead corporate partner for FOA’s Wild Acadia program, sent two volunteers. Since the Benefit’s inception representatives to Acadia this summer to see first-hand the work that Canon’s support makes possible. At 27 years ago, the event has raised over $11 Sieur de Monts, they learned about exotic plant management and how critical dependable annual fund- ing is to the program’s success. From left to right (back row): ANP exotic plant program manager Jesse million for Acadia—an incredible feat that Wheeler, FOA development director Lisa Horsch Clark, Sue Turner and Dawn Shields, both from the would not have been possible without the Canon U.S.A. Corporate Communications Division, ANP superintendent Kevin Schneider, ANP natural dedication of these volunteers. resources specialist Judy Hazen-Connery, ANP chief of resources Rebecca Cole-Will, FOA president David Our thanks to the 27th Annual Benefit’s MacDonald, Wild Acadia program coordinator Brian Henkel, and ANP Exotic Plant Management Team Presenting Sponsor, Chilton Trust Com- (EMPT) member Joe Kelly; (front row) EPMT members Jim Burka and Alex Fetgatter. pany, along with the Paddle Raise Spon- th sor, Christie’s, and Silent Auction Sponsor, held on Saturday, August 12 , 2017. If you Taking Pride in Acadia Goldman Sachs; and a special thanks to Gail would like to donate to the auction, join the More than 500 volunteers raked 10.2 miles and Ham Clark for hosting the Patron Pre- Benefit Committee, or have questions about of Acadia’s historic carriage road system on view Party at their Northeast Harbor home, the event, please contact Shawn Keeley at Saturday, November 5th, during the Acadia Gulls Way. The 28th Annual Benefit will be [email protected] or 207-288- Centennial edition of Take Pride in Acadia 3340. Day, an extra-special celebration of volun- teerism and pride in Acadia. By removing fallen leaves from road surfaces and drain- age, the volunteers’ collective labor will reduce erosion and washouts during the freeze-and-thaw cycles of a coastal Maine winter and will also help the roads to dry out faster, permitting pedestrian and bicycle access earlier in the season. This all-important annual volunteer ef- fort depends on a corps of stewardship volunteers who have been coming to the event for many years, a number of retired ANP staff, and the many groups who come from all over eastern Maine for the event. Approximately half of the volunteers are young people from schools including Trem- ont School, the University of Maine, Hus- son College, and Scout groups. Commu- nity groups include the Downeast Outing Club, Footloose Friends, L.L.Bean, and the Dan Holman Students from Maranacook Community Middle School stayed at Seawall Campground during their visit to Sea & Mountain Hiking Club. In addition Acadia, allowing this group to witness a sunrise over Great Cranberry Island and the Western Way. to the groups, more than 125 individuals

Friends of Acadia Journal Fall/Winter 2016 2727 Howard Sylvester Howard FOA/Julia Walker Thomas FOA/Julia Walker th The Stanley Brook carriage road bridge features The annual Clean Waters, Clean Shores event, on September 19 , saw more than 40 volunteers from three arches: one for the Stanley Brook Road, one all over Maine remove boatloads of trash from Schoodic Island in Acadia National Park. The day was for the brook itself, and one (opposite the brook) beautiful and the volunteers terrifically effective (including Daniel Grenier from the Nature Conservancy, for the Seaside Path. The paddle raise at the 27th pictured here), collecting a grand total 1,660 pounds of trash— half the amount collected on the island in Annual Benefit will support the restoration of the 2014. We hope this is a sign of less marine debris for this section of Acadia’s coastline. The Clean Waters, Seaside Path and other footpaths linking the park Clean Shores event is a great example of collaboration between many partners: Acadia National Park, with the surrounding communities. Friends of Acadia, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, Maine Island Trail Association, and the US Fish & Wild- life Service. These organizations provided staffing, boats, dumpsters, and lunch for the event. Thank you from all over New England participated in to our volunteers and partners for making it a big success! the festive day. The day was sponsored by Bar Harbor dition, transportation for volunteer groups More than 700 New Members Bank & Trust, The Bluenose Inn, Burdick was donated by Acadia National Park Join at Membership Table & Associates Landscape Design, Cadillac Tours, Coastal Kayaking, Downeast Trans- If you stop by the Jordan Pond House on Mountain Sports, Dawnland, The First, portation/Island Explorer, and National most weekdays in July and August, you will Gallery at Somes Sound, Galyn’s, Knowles Park Sea Kayak. Friends of Acadia and Aca- probably see a couple of friendly volunteers Company, the Lynam Agencies, Machias dia National Park are grateful to all who underneath the arbor beside a display of Savings Bank, and Window Panes. In ad- made the day a success. Friends of Acadia materials. They will hap- pily chat with you about Friends of Acadia, its mission, and how membership contribu- tions support all of our work to protect the park. Last summer, FOA’s membership table volunteers signed up 705 new members— the most in the program’s ten-year history. By sharing their own love and enthusiasm for Acadia, the volunteers connect with visi- tors from all over the country and the world who would like to do their part to help pre- serve this remarkable place. If you would like to learn more about the membership table or volunteering next year, contact Sha- ron Broom at [email protected] or 207-288-3340. FOA/Julia Walker Thomas FOA/Julia Walker Benefit co-chairs Whitney Kroeger Connor and Elizabeth Seherr-Thoss (left to right) welcome guests at the FOA Annual Benefit. 28 Fall/Winter 2016 Friends of Acadia Journal New Friends on the Board I Dave Edson is a licensed professional for- CLASSIC ester and currently serves as the president and CEO of the James W. Sewall Company in Old Town, where he has worked for near- ly 40 years. 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Historic Acadia of ANP naturalist Judy Hazen Connery. As an artist myself, I think all artists feel National Park This book for all Acadia lovers includes that way—just looking is our heaven. Of By Catherine Schmitt 79 well-chosen illustrations, a detailed in- course, artists then must find a medium to Lyons Press, 2016 dex, and a six-page bibliography to guide express it; the book includes basket-makers, Paperback, 232 pages further learning. rug-hookers, bird carvers, sculptors, map- In our centennial year, Catherine makers, photographers, and painters. Art The voice of Cath- Schmitt’s Historic Acadia National Park gives of Acadia traces the many ways that artists, erine Schmitt is well us a fresh history of our beloved commons over the years and centuries, have expressed established as a writ- that both celebrates our past and inspires the heaven they’ve found in the inspiring er on conservation, our future. landscape of Acadia. science, and science- David and Carl successfully combed in-support of conservation in Maine. In Jack Russell writes and teaches on the his- through what must have been thousands The President’s Salmon she celebrated the tory of the Acadian region and is a member of images to put together a collection of noble fish and the long labor to restore the of the Friends of Acadia Board of Directors. artworks that will delight again and again. Penobscot, its home waters. Her first book, The turn of every page brings more images A Coastal Companion: A Year in the Gulf of of Acadia’s stunning beauty, truly showing Maine from Cape Cod to Canada (sure to be- Acadia at its best through the eyes of the art- come a classic in the Maine coast canon) ists who have created here. With the pieces offers a page of gracefully rendered natural arranged in roughly chronological order, the history appropriate to each day of the year. accompanying descriptive text explores the Now comes her Historic Acadia National artists’ individual stories within the context Park: The Stories Behind One of America’s of Acadia’s own grand story—from the first Great Treasures, a compact presentation Wabanaki inhabitants and early French ex- of Acadian history from several refreshing plorers, through Hudson River School paint- perspectives. Schmitt offers twelve chap- ers and 19th-century advertising illustrators, ters, each with a one-word title that sug- all the way to contemporary artists creating gests a theme and a point of view. Art of Acadia landscapes from the radically abstract to the “Study” tells the story of the Cham- By Carl and David Little ultra-realistic, mastering astrophotography, plain Society, those adventurous Harvard Down East Books, 2016 and in myriad other ways creating works lads whose summer stays on MDI in the Hardcover, 280 pages informed by our modern understanding of 1880s documented the natural history of both art and conservation. the island and inspired the first vision of Art of Acadia is a spectacular coffee table The book’s back cover gives a great sum- its conservation. “Reservation” distills with book written and compiled by broth- mation of the project: “One century of Aca- spirit the well-known work of the Hancock ers David Little and Carl Little. They first dia National Park. Three centuries of stun- County Trustees of Public Reservations came to Maine in the 1980s to visit their ning visual expression.” While pat, these to found Sieur de Monts National Monu- uncle, the painter William Kienbusch, who lines hardly do justice to the extraordinary ment in 1916 and adds a lovely portrait of owned a home on Cranberry Island. Both gift that David and Carl Little have given us Eliza Homans, who donated the first sig- subsequently moved here; David became in collecting together this remarkable com- nificant land to the reservation. “Harvest” a highly regarded painter of Maine land- pendium of artists, their art, and the history sketches ways that year-round residents of scapes and Carl established himself as a of Acadia National Park. MDI have made their livings—some linked prominent writer of books on Maine art to the park, many not. Here, Schmitt con- and artists. Diana Roper McDowell is a painter of tributes to an evolving history of the social This book, the brothers’ second collabo- semi-abstract landscapes, two of which (in and economic complexities of the native/ ration, opens with a great quotation from the interests of disclosure) are included in cottager relationship from the origin of the Kienbusch that, for me, defines art: Art of Acadia. When not creating art, she is summer colonies to the present. I took my little musette bag and camera... the director of finance and administration at In her final chapter, “Archipelago,” Cath- and wandered around happily, taking Friends of Acadia. erine Schmitt is at her best, weaving to- snaps of island gardens, a distant point gether an account of the early days of the across the Pool, and a large bayberry bush. Maine Coast Heritage Trust with heroic What optical pleasure! The summer’s work amateur Barbara Patterson’s work in bird done, I could just look, and looking, on a conservation and the now-37-year service sunny day, mid-afternoon, is my heaven.

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y wife, Mari- (as with the visitor who asked why so many lyn, had fond Civil War battles were fought in national Mchildhood parks). The common thread that weaves memories of Acadia and this tapestry together are the joys we have led me here for a short experienced working, joking, sharing, sing- vacation in 1983. We ing, and occasionally suffering with people tented in Seawall Camp- we now count among those we admire and ground, and that visit love the most. They have contributed im- kick-started the 20-plus measurably to our wellbeing and longevity. years of our unfolding Marilyn and I now belong to a genera- romance with Acadia’s tion of volunteers decreasing in stamina many-splendored “gar- and mobility. Although some comrades we den.” On our first walk, knew well are forever “gone-bye,” they live a (sadly) long-gone sign on in memories. But replacements are arriv- at the Ship Harbor trail- ing. For both the old and new generations, head asked us to “Stop I submit this poem in an offering of hope: and Listen. Do you hear surf? Bird calls? Wind Thoughts While Hiking in the spruces? Can you on a Fall Day smell the ocean? More is hidden than visible.” Thomas FOA/Julia Walker The stream spills river-ocean bound down Al Wiberly plays a mean set of Fluff drums as part of FOA’s “Imprecision Did these questions Drill Team” during the Bar Harbor July 4th parade. its mountain path and my answers echo Gurgling, grumbling, tumbling, fumbling, from memory 25 years later on a spring- small oasis on a planet that could—failing foaming brilliant laughing white over mossy time hike in the Smokey Mountains? “The sufficientand informed collective action— rock-strewn beds. sounds of silence fill my ears/ The green so be part of the ruins. Far from its birth in distant oceans green it brings my eyes to tears/ That wash Zooming in, such dark thoughts urged Where vapors spring alive upon the crests my sight so crystal clean/ That now I see us to become “gardeners.” In 1987 the of wind-tossed, tide-driven waves. things that remain unseen.” opportunity appeared with FOA and the Not knowing their birth or destiny, We did take that trailhead sign’s cue then remarkably talented, exuberant George Yet pursuing a timeless cycle from ocean and often since. Our eyes captured Katah- Feltus. George warmly welcomed and to flatlands, to mountain tops din, sunsets, starry skies. Our ears heard mentored all of us drop-in volunteers in his Then journeying, the gentle singing of a bell buoy off Bass body-building and entertaining tutorials on returning in spring-fed river flows Harbor Light. Our noses savored beach rose how to help the dedicated Acadia trail crew to a glistening grey-green-blue salty womb. perfume and aromatic flavor of birch beer build and maintain park resources. So are we all born unknowing whence we came from a scraped yellow birch. Plus we have In the many years since, we personally Nor where, what streams we may become. discovered new Acadian trivia every season have literally covered miles of ground with- That gurgle, tumble, fumble, foam brilliant since—the mysterious carved, dated ini- in both Acadia and Great Smoky Mountains laughing white tials on a rock at Seawall; a bronze plaque national parks. Our labors have spanned Over mossy rock-strewn beds in on a huge oak tree at Indian Head planted high lining, rock quarrying, restoring and spring-creek-river flows on the day Lincoln was assassinated. destroying vegetation, clearing culverts, To where we once began. � Such dreams fade, however, as we see policing visitor-wildlife interactions, and the effects of all of us using more of what interpreting history and natural resources AL WIBERLY is a volunteer crew leader there is. More people, more cars. Rising, with visitors—both as FOA workers and with Friends of Acadia’s trail and carriage warmer, and acidifying seas, northward “VIPs” (volunteers-in-parks, which is the road stewardship program. migrating flora and fauna, the loss of entire nation-wide park volunteer program). Such species. Zooming out, Acadia appears as a adventures have been spiced with laughter

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