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Helping Acadia Prepare for Change

hen a small group of committed favorable for them. Students from the volunteers joined forces to form University of Maine and College of the WFriends of Acadia in 1986, they Atlantic are helping to monitor Acadia’s showed tremendous foresight regarding the lakes and streams, and citizen scientists challenges that Acadia National Park would everywhere are contributing observations face in the ensuing years. Documents from of how wildlife behavior and migrations those earliest days show an emphasis are being affected. on understanding the pressures created These examples illustrate that our by growing visitation, the perils of an responses to a changing climate will vary. increasing backlog of deferred maintenance In some instances, we will resist change— on trails and carriage roads, and how to as with our work to remove invasive plants. better engage community members and In other situations, we will look to adapt— youth in the park. Today, these very issues as with efforts to install larger culverts in remain among the most important priorities the face of increased intensity of rainfall for FOA’s work in helping our park thrive in events. In still others, we will anticipate its second century. and get a head start on change—as with One challenge that our founders could the test plots to evaluate certain species not have fully anticipated, however, is to determine the best possible successor how a changing climate would bring new FOA/ASHLEY CONTI plants as others are no longer able to thrive stresses and threats to Acadia. Still, today, Acadia and other national parks also here in a warmer, wetter climate. we are struggling to understand what the have an important role to play in com- In addition to this work by institutions, future might hold. But the ability of a be- municating climate change to the visiting it takes many individual actions to make a loved place like Acadia to inspire research, public and bringing an issue that can feel collective difference in addressing climate creativity, discussion, and commitment in overwhelmingly broad down to a place- change. By focusing on individual choices, the face of challenges like these means that based scale that is meaningful to the mil- as well as supporting broader policy FOA and partners can provide leadership lions of visitors each year. initiatives and projects, we can help Acadia even as we navigate uncharted waters. With science leading the way, a growing and other natural areas adapt and prepare How will Acadia fare as the climate community of partners here at Acadia is for changing environmental conditions. changes? No one can say for sure. But collaborating on approaches that strive When I was recently asked to be part what we are experiencing already is an to do just that and make Acadia’s natural of a panel speaking about conservation Acadia that is warmer and wetter, with values as healthy and resilient as possible issues to a local fifth-grade class, climate bigger storms, higher and more acidic in the face of unprecedented change. change was clearly the topic weighing seas, longer growing (and visitation) For example, Maine Coast Heritage most heavily on these young students’ seasons, and changing species. These Trust is seeking to conserve lands that minds. They were both proud of, and changes affect every aspect of the park, will allow salt marsh eco-systems vital to worried about, the national park in their from natural and cultural resources Acadia to migrate in the future as sea level back yard; their awareness of what was to the visitor experience, from park rises. Schoodic Institute is experimenting at stake and their determination to be infrastructure and staffing to public safety. with test plots of native plant species involved in solutions was heartening. How can Acadia and its partners that would fare well on the inhospitable Theirs are among the voices that will shape respond? First, we are doing our best to summits of Acadia’s mountains as the future of this organization and this understand this new paradigm and to conditions there change. Municipal public park during its second century, as climate support a park management strategy that works departments are replacing culverts change has become one of Acadia’s biggest must be dynamic and adaptive. Even as to anticipate increased rain events and challenges that we must all tackle together. we often wish that a favorite place like stream flow and to better accommodate Acadia will always remain exactly as we fish and amphibian passage. have known it, we recognize that it will be FOA is funding work to remove —David MacDonald impossible to prevent or resist some of the invasive plant species that are seeking a changes that are coming. toehold here as conditions become more

Friends of Acadia Journal Winter 2019 1 15 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Anne Green, Chair Bill Eacho, Treasurer Hank Schmelzer, Vice Chair Jack Kelley, Secretary Mark Amstutz C. Boyden Gray Winter 2019 Julie Banzhaf-Stone Margaret Jeffery Volume 24 No. 3 Emily Beck David Katona Gail Clark Story Litchfield Hannah Sistare Clark Paul Mayewski Sam Coplon Lili Pew Andrew Davis Edward L. Samek Dave Edson Nonie Sullivan John Fassak Christiaan van Heerden Elsie Flemings Bill Zoellick

HONORARY TRUSTEES Debby Lash Noni Ames Linda Lewis Robert and Anne Bass Liz Martinez Fred Benson Phoebe Milliken Sylvia Blake George J. and Heather Mitchell Frederic A. Bourke Jr. Joseph Murphy 6 12 28 Tristram and Ruth Colket Nancy Nimick Gail Cook Jack Perkins* f e at u r e s Shelby and Gale Davis Nancy Pyne* Dianna Emory Ann R. Roberts 6 Hawk Watch Marks Quarter Century Nathaniel Fenton Jeannine Ross Frances Fitzgerald Jack Russell Volunteers Are Scientists’ Eyes On The Sky Sheldon Goldthwait Howard Solomon By Seth Benz Neva Goodwin Erwin Soule Paul and Eileen Growald Diana Davis Spencer 3 Outdoor Classroom Excitement Grows Paul Haertel Julia Merck Utsch Cookie Horner Dick Wolf Expanding Horizons Beyond Four Walls Lee Judd * Deceased By Paige Steele 11 Visitor Center Redo Seeks To Bridge Gap EMERITUS TRUSTEES Aging Facility Refreshed, Improved W. Kent Olson Charles R. Tyson Jr. By Earl Brechlin FRIENDS OF ACADIA STAFF 12 Acadia’s Coat of Many Colors Mary Boëchat David R. MacDonald Development Officer President & CEO Autumn Splendor Is Nature’s Best Show Earl D. Brechlin Amy Magill By Ashley Conti Communications Director Administrative Assistant 14 Transportation Plan Inches Ahead Sharon Broom Dana Petersen Implementation Timeline Shapes Up Development Officer Stewardship Volunteer Coordinator By Earl Brechlin Stephanie Clement Conservation Director Mike Staggs 15 Acadia Is Ideal Winter Classroom Office Manager Lisa Horsch Clark Cold, Snow, Coping Are Core Curriculum Director of Development Paige Steele & Donor Relations Conservation Projects By Lynn Fantom Manager Sarah Curts Accounting & Administrative Julia Walker Thomas p e r s p e c t i v e s Associate Digital Media Manager 1 President’s Message The Shape of Friends of Acadia’s Future Jason Irwin Lisa Williams Vice President for Finance Communications 5 What We Heard From You Reflections On A Great Year & Administration Web & Design Associate 8 Studying How You Play Rec Techs Are Boots On Ground Shawn Keeley JoAnne Wood 9 Superintendent’s View Rising to Meet the Challenges of 2020 Senior Development Officer Development Assistant 31 Chair’s Letter Challenges and Unanticipated Joys

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2 Winter 2019 Friends of Acadia Journal FOA/PAIGE STEELE FOA/PAIGE Students from Deer Isle -Stonington Elementary School explore the outdoors on a nature trail built with the help of Friends of Acadia. The trail connects to the school’s outdoor classroom, also supported by FOA. Outdoor Classroom Excitement Grows By Paige Steele our years ago, education staff at Acadia and invasive plants. Oceanside High students National Park began thinking of ways in Rockland will also have a new outdoor Fto connect every Maine student to their classroom surrounded by a butterfly garden, national park. Knowing the constraints of time, serving multiple academic and social purposes. distance, and shifting budgets would prevent After years in the making, Deer Isle- some classes from visiting the park in person, Stonington Elementary (DISES) completed a they began to brainstorm solutions. An idea 1,000-foot bogwalk connecting the campus to emerged to cultivate an outdoor classroom their existing outdoor classroom that is already program, connecting students to Acadia on well used. On Oct. 18, the school officially their school campus, while also instilling opened the DISES Nature Trail. Students stewardship values of their shared lands and proudly marched in a celebratory parade waters. Whether in Acadia or their hometown, through a beautiful red maple swamp filled

youth can learn how to be the caretakers of STEELE FOA/PAIGE with giant skunk cabbages, cinnamon ferns, their environment. A park ranger works with students as part of FOA’s sundew plants, and yellow birches. This concept fit perfectly into Friends of Collaboratory Workshop with the Mount Desert In addition to outdoor classrooms being Acadia’s vision to increase youth engagement Island School System. created or expanded on campuses across Maine, with Acadia National Park, and we began It’s an outdoor educational space that brings Friends of Acadia is piloting a more in-depth providing outdoor classroom grants in 2015 learning to life by encouraging students to take stewardship model with the Mount Desert to early learning centers and schools in Maine. their studies outside, where intriguing lessons Island Regional School System. Grant funds What is an outdoor classroom, you may ask? can be presented in all seasons. are used to support a teacher collaboratory Components of an outdoor classroom comprising teachers, administrators, Acadia’s Outdoor Classrooms can include trails, study and creative spaces, education staff, community partners, and gardens, greenhouses, and fitness elements. the Acadia Teacher Fellows. Early on, the Make A Difference Schools awarded an outdoor classroom grant collaboratory decided to focus on the special The following is an excerpt from a commit to training staff to teach in the out of surroundings of each school as a theme for note received in September: doors. Students are expected to learn outdoors their outdoor classrooms: Trenton–forest, Bar “The first month of school is exciting… and 10 percent of school days, and educators will Harbor–ocean, Northeast Harbor–islands, this year it’s even more exciting because of link three lessons per year to Acadia. Schools Southwest Harbor–migration, and Tremont– the generous grant from Friends of Acadia! are also awarded transportation funds for marsh, and to teach their students how to We are so incredibly grateful. We seriously a field trip to Acadia, or they may bring an steward these communities. These stewardship cannot thank this program enough. You’ve Acadia education ranger to campus. zones have informed the design of the new made an extraordinary difference in the 2019 was the grant program’s most active learning spaces on the Trenton and Tremont academic, social, and emotional development year so far. The goal of awarding three grants campuses, along with lessons to be taught of students at Oceanside High School, in 2019 was met by mid-summer with outside on phenology, bird migration, weather, especially students in the special education applications steadily arriving. The schools are and mapping throughout the school system. department. We’ll look forward to sharing designing spaces to best suit their learning The team achieves this work by meeting the developments with you! needs. Tremont Consolidated School students in small groups and participating in full- With gratitude, Jessica.” will have a brand-new outdoor learning space day workshops as a whole group, such as to study plant phenology, comparing native continued on page 26 Friends of Acadia Journal Winter 2019 3 Where in Acadia?

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Where in Acadia? In this quintessential glacial mountain notch can be found the highest The Journal is published three times a year. four-way, non-summit trail intersection in Acadia National Park. Paths radiate out in all the Submissions and letters are welcome. See cardinal directions. For students of history, “Dry” and “Green” were names associated with http://friendsofacadia.org/news-publications/ this area in olden times. friends-of-acadia-journal/submissions/ Opinions expressed are the authors’. If you think you can identify this scene email us at [email protected] and feel free to include a personal story or memory with your answer. We’ll print our favorite responses in the next EDITOR issue of the Friends of Acadia Journal, and we’ll send a Friends of Acadia cap to those selected. Earl D. Brechlin DESIGN Summer 2019 Where in Acadia? Z Studio View of Kief (not chief) Pond, from the Bee- PRINTING hive trail. We’ve got plenty to be thankful for Penmor Lithographers on this island, but a hike with your brother PUBLISHER on Thanksgiving morning is sweeter than David R. MacDonald honey. —Sean Dwyer, Bar Harbor

Winter 2019 The picture is from Beehive looking toward Volume 24 No. 3 Gorham. We’ve climbed this trail—the first time with our four-year old and then with family and friends many times—every time someone visits; at least once a year if not more. A memorable time was when we caught up to a couple celebrating their first wedding anniversary. The woman was stopped on the trail midway where the ladders begin, unable to go up or down due to her fear of heights. When we reassured her, she was nearly at the top, and that there was an alternate trail heading back down, she was able to make it the rest of the way to the top to finish. —Bonnie Tai, Bar Harbor

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The photo is from the Beehive Trail and the pond is Kief Pond with Gorham Mountain ridge in Snowfall softens the view from the boat launch area background. I first hiked Beehive in 1987 with my son and a friend who were both 8. I realized at Eagle Lake in Acadia National Park. about halfway up I had made a mistake in thinking the trail was suitable for children but real- Photo by Julia Walker Thomas. ized there was no turning around. The boys loved it and we all survived to tell the tale. After that, when I hiked Beehive, I hiked it alone, most recently at age 71 in the summer of 2018. The views are utterly stupendous, especially the brilliant blues and greens of the water at Sand Beach. —Megan Hack, Gordonsville, Virginia This Journal is printed on paper made with 100% This is a view southwest from The Beehive Ladder Trail. I last hiked it about four years ago with recycled fiber and 60% post-consumer waste, processed chlorine free, and manufactured in the USA with 100% my cousin Sandy Andrews. I was 75 at the time and was very conscious of declining balance Green-e certified renewable energy. ability. I roundly cursed him for taking me (he was 64), but I loved it and it made for great Printed with soy-based ink. stories over a beer or two. —Eliot Scull, Wenatchee, Washington

4 Winter 2019 Friends of Acadia Journal Reflections on a Great Year By Lisa Horsch Clark

fter the hustle and bustle of the More than half of respondents had heard treated to a visit by Mr. Dorr, featuring summer season ends, I have a of our key events including Earth Day thoughts and reflections on modern-day Achance to catch up with the friends Roadside Cleanup, Take Pride in Acadia park conditions. The reading was brought and members I may have missed visiting Day, the Annual Friends of Acadia Benefit, to us by some technological wizardry on with during the summer. I also have the the part of FOA Communications Director time to reflect on and evaluate the many With nearly a dozen different Earl Brechlin. It was a new and fun way to projects and events we managed during celebrate the words and work of the Father the year. programs for youth spanning of Acadia. One significant project launched in early in ages from four to twenty- As winter approaches, we will continue spring was the FOA Friend and Member program evaluations and summaries to survey that we conduct every 10 years. As four, much good work is being share with FOA members, park staff, and I read through the survey responses and done to help engage the next the leadership at Friends of Acadia. This comments, I discovered the great majority generation of park stewards. work will serve as the foundation for our of respondents are satisfied with their programs next summer, all in our quest to relationship with FOA and feel as though reach and inspire current and new friends and our Annual Meeting. Far fewer their investment, whether it be membership who want to help us preserve and protect respondents had heard of the George B. dues, charitable gifts, or volunteer time, is Acadia. � Dorr Society event. used effectively. This year’s George B. Dorr event marked Most respondents are familiar with FOA’s LISA HORSCH CLARK is Friends of its 15th anniversary. It focused on the work with the Island Explorer, the Wild Acadia’s director of development. history of trail building in Acadia and Gardens of Acadia, and the Acadia Winter featured long-time Acadia Trail Foreman Trails Association. But fewer are familiar Gary Stellpflug. Gary is always generous with our important programs and events with his time and is one of the best story for young people. With nearly a dozen tellers I know. Our day with him in late July different programs for youth spanning in at the Asticou Inn included more than 70 ages from four to twenty-four, much good guests. After a delicious lunch, some hiked work is being done to help engage the next with Gary on the Jordan Pond Asticou Trail generation of park stewards. To learn about to hear about bridge building, boundaries, these programs, please visit our website at and the history of the trail system. www.friendsofacadia.org The George B. Dorr Society event is a On the communications front, more small way to thank those who have left a than 90 percent of respondents are pleased bequest or other planned gift to Friends with the Friends of Acadia Journal, but of Acadia in their estate plans. The society Society membership they also enjoy the monthly e-news and honors George Bucknam Dorr, gentleman, According to the recent Friend and visit our website. Respondents want more scholar, and lover of nature, whose Member survey, 88 families have feature stories and photos of the park on dedication to preserving Mount Desert included Friends of Acadia in their our website. We will work with the FOA Island helped create Acadia National Park. estate plans. If you have made future Acadia Digital Media Team next year to Another related and unique event provisions for FOA, we want to know develop more of this content. was held on August 5 at the Kedge, the so we can thank you in advance for all Our volunteers were most pleased with the lovely Bar Harbor home of Susan and that will be accomplished with your camaraderie and sense of accomplishment Steven Raab. On a former site, the home gift and to include you on our roster with their work. We are fortunate to have served as the clubhouse for the Mount of George B. Dorr Society members. thousands of dedicated volunteers working Desert Reading Room. In its halls walked Please contact Lisa Horsch Clark, to help preserve and protect the park. The Dorr, President Benjamin Harrison, J. P. director of development, at 207-288- value of last year’s volunteer labor exceeded Morgan, John Jacob Astor IV, Cornelius 3340 or lisahorsch@friendsofacadia. $250,000, making FOA and park dollars Vanderbilt, Joseph Pulitzer, and other org to let us know or to learn more go much farther. Respondents said that luminaries. The occasion marked the 75th about leaving a bequest or future gift they would like more year-round volunteer anniversary of Mr. Dorr’s death. We were to FOA. opportunities. Friends of Acadia Journal Winter 2019 5 Hawk Watch Marks Quarter Century By Seth Benz

awk watching in Acadia National flyway. Hence, no Spring count is conducted. Park formally came of age a quarter Observers use 8 or 10X binoculars to Hof a century ago. spot and identify hawks. Observations are Cadillac Mountain’s geographical posi- recorded by the hour on a standardized tion, located north of latitude N44 in the data sheet and reports are sent to a northeast corner of the U.S., is considered national repository. Visitors are welcome the headwaters of a great southbound aerial and encouraged to participate by helping river of migrating raptors. The birds come to spot migrants. They also can learn

out of eastern Canada as well as Washington FOA/ASHLEY CONTI from the expertise and camaraderie of and Hancock counties here in Maine. A Peregrine in flight. more experienced hawk watchers and the They will eventually join up with other educational messaging imparted by the geographical tributaries of hawks. Numbers yards west of the summit parking lot along rangers. swell into the tens of thousands as the Cadillac’s North Ridge Trail. Observers use the names of landscape airborne flow of raptors passes through both The effort is a collaborative operation features to point out where each hawk Pennsylvania’s Hawk Mountain Sanctuary between park interpreters, a Friends of appears. “There’s a bird half a glass over Bald and Cape May, New Jersey. Acadia-sponsored raptor intern, and Porcupine moving toward Bar Island, going Four weeks after passing Cadillac Schoodic Institute’s Bird Ecology Programs fast,” says one. “I can see pointed wings, Mountain, the hawks reach Corpus Christi, which recruits and trains volunteer citizen- looks like a falcon,” reports another. “Yes, I Texas where tallies reach 100,000 or more. scientists and then collates data. Daily got it. It’s a Peregrine!” exalts a ranger. One week after that, numbers at Veracruz, counts take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. from Each hawk inspires passionate descriptors Mexico can be in the millions! mid-August through mid-October. Anyone like that, called out to seize onlookers’ Hawk Watch on Cadillac is a special, can drop in at any time. attention on the subject bird of the moment. stationary form of bird watching — a point In Spring, when the hawks migrate Each hawk is identified by looking at count designed to monitor the autumn’s northward, they tend to disperse across shape, size, flight style, and field marks. seasonal passage of migratory birds of prey. the continent by using different flyways Making a positive identification sounds easy The actual spot is a small exposed outcrop than those taken in the fall. At Cadillac, for until someone actually tries it. of granite located just a couple hundred instance, we have detected no concentrated In addition to quickly locating the hawk, FOA /JULIA WALKER THOMAS FOA /JULIA WALKER FOA/JULIA WALKER THOMAS FOA/JULIA WALKER Volunteers watch for migrating raptors from a vantage along the North Ridge Trail on Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park. 6 Winter 2019 Friends of Acadia Journal “There’s a bird half a glass over Bald Porcupine moving toward Bar Island, going fast,” says one. “I can see pointed wings, looks like a falcon,” reports another. FOA/ASHLEY CONTI FOA/ASHLEY observers must factor in wind conditions, spread among the other 11 species. program is fashioned with a pedigree that cloud cover (which impacts lighting), Over time, population trends emerge. exemplifies dedicated volunteerism, scien- distance, and angle of proper focus to see Watchers have documented a resurgence tific inquiry, and conservation education. plumage detail, if any. Lastly, the gestalt of of the American Bald Eagle, once depleted We hope to continue to deliver the enjoy- the bird—how it carries itself, coupled with by DDT. Statistics support evidence of a ment, edification, and visitor engagement in its flight behavior—must be considered. northward range expansion by Turkey the phenomenon of hawk migration long Even with careful scrutiny, not all can be Vultures. into the future. identified. All, however, are counted. Some And, despite the statistical likelihood On a morning this past October, a simply are listed as “unidentified raptor.” of spotting a Sharp-shinned Hawk or northwest wind and the sound and sight of Fourteen species have been spotted. Each American Kestrel, data suggest both species familiar friends already arrived heightens the is triggered to migrate separately as days are in decline —likely due to a depletion of anticipation. Everyone wears layers of warm shorten, temperatures cool, and winds blow the songbirds and insects they respectively clothing, watch caps and gloves. Binoculars from the north. Since Cadillac’s inaugural feed upon. Additionally, researchers are are up and scanning. � Hawk Watch day on August 28, 1995 investigating potential shifts in timing of through October 9, 2019, a grand total of migration by different species. SETH BENZ of Belfast heads up the 71,681 hawks have been tallied. A typical In a very direct way, the initial proposal Schoodic Institute Bird Ecology Program, hour of observation produces 12 sightings. to establish a hawk watch site in Acadia where he combines research, education, and Three species predominate: Sharp- National Park drew inspiration from Hawk citizen science to study bird migration and shinned Hawk (36 percent), Broad-winged Mountain Sanctuary in Pennsylvania. It was the sequencing of nature’s events. Hawk (23 percent), and American Kestrel the very first hawk watch site in the world, (21 percent). The remaining 20 percent is established in 1934. The Cadillac Mountain FOA/JULIA WALKER THOMAS FOA/JULIA WALKER While on an autumn Hawk Watch atop Cadillac Mountain, a volunteer scans the sky to the north and east to try to identify passing raptors on their annual migration south. Friends of Acadia Journal Winter 2019 7 Recreation Technician: Working to Study How You Play By Becca Stanley

ver just the last few seasons the that ascend the three-mile road as well. road corridors to best understand user rising tide of Acadia National These volume counts are used to help groups, volume counts, and trends. In OPark visitation has surged. Acadia develop best management practices for park 2018, the first year of the winter use logged 2.5 million visits is 2010, 2.8 resources, traffic management protocols, study, there was a large influx of visits to million in 2015 and 3.5 million in 2018. and strategies to cope with increased visitor the Parkman Mountain Carriage Road This increase has contributed to the park’s use while attempting to maintain a positive and Brown Mountain Carriage Road reputation as one of the most intensely visitor experience. entrances. These surges were in line with visited preserves in the country. The role of the Recreation Technician has the presence of snowy owls seen atop While protecting the park from more become even more vital as Acadia considers Sargent and Cadillac Mountain as they visitors can be a challenge, park managers implementation of the Transportation migrate. Findings from this study will consider each visit as an investment in our Management Plan. assist park management to make decisions public lands and a vote for the importance Because of the major changes proposed about wildlife safety communication with of the internationally renowned landscape in this plan, there is a great need for local and out-of-state visitors as well as to of Maine’s rocky coastline. baseline data and quality research. understand the impact of off-leash canines. In order to better understand visitation As the Friends of Acadia Rec Tech, I Over the years, Acadia National Park has patterns, many dedicated volunteers, will be working together with the park’s been a leader in addressing management of rangers, and affiliated groups are working social scientist, Dr. Adam Gibson. We will outdoor recreation. The park’s significant to gather important data. continue to study parking lot turnover cultural, natural, and recreational Friends of Acadia’s contribution involves rates, monitor the growth and frequency of resources help set it apart as a leader funding a nearly full-time Recreation Class 1 e-bike usage, and identify areas that within the national park system. Work Technician (Rec Tech). remain vulnerable to congestion including done by the Rec Tech program now will As FOA’s Rec Tech, I spend much of my bottlenecks beyond the implementation of gather critical baseline data that can help time outdoors helping to collect data to the Transportation Management Plan that inform management strategies to improve generate statistics about what is going on frustrate the average visitor. access to Acadia’s wonders and create behind the scenes. Certainly, one of the more problematic opportunities for visitors to enjoy the park On a recent morning afield, a moss- areas historically has been on Cadillac. in many new ways. � lined stream that burbles under the road While assigned to the summit throughout to Echo Lake Beach is my destination. the season, the Rec Tech has historically Beech and aspen trees abound, making provided data which has helped managers the quintessential forest scene that is my understand how the rush to see the sunrise outside office this morning. Most visitors on Cadillac has influenced overall visitor using the road are eager to get to the beach use. At sunrise, hundreds of vehicles cram on one of Acadia’s beautiful inland lakes; into an area with only 157 parking spaces. few notice the black rubber traffic counter Tardy visitors trying to make the sunrise stretching across the pavement. tend to drive rapidly on the summit road “Thump-thump” go the tires as the despite the posted speed limits. Around 40 weight of vehicles compress the tubing, minutes after the sunrise there’s a surge of activating the nearby hidden counter with traffic of a different type. A steady stream puffs of air. of bicyclists climb the 1,530 feet to the I’m there to access the counter’s data, summit over the next several hours. These like information contained in many others cyclists understand that the lower density around the park, which I download onto of vehicles results in a higher quality a thumb drive. Back at park headquarters, recreational experience. software known as TRAXPRO will generate In addition to collecting and analyzing monthly statistics and reports for similar data during the summer months, our work counters at Sieur de Monts Spring, Otter also includes studying how visitors are FOA/ASHLEY CONTI Cliffs, and the Cadillac Summit Road. making use of Acadia during the winter. Friends of Acadia Recreation Technician Becca The equipment atop the park’s highest The winter recreation use study will look Stanley installs a sign urging visitors to not mountain counts not just cars, but bicycles at several sites along the groomed carriage damage vegetation near Jordan Pond House.

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Rising to Meet the Challenges of 2020

ith the trees bare, and December’s significantly improved workspaces. These first snows upon us, I start to areas are the backbone of our operations Wthink about the transition to a and include the trails shop, our carpentry New Year at Acadia. The New Year is a time shop, office space for our team, and more. A for reflection, a time to think about past major success in 2019 was that we received accomplishments and to set goals for the construction funding to redesign these areas, New Year. and this effort will be a major emphasis for 2019 began with difficulty, as Acadia our staff in 2020. National Park ushered in the New Year We are also focusing on developing our during the longest government shutdown workforce and providing them with learning in our nation’s history. There is no doubt opportunities that will better prepare that this was a tough time for our staff, them to meet tomorrow’s challenges. This our visitors, and our communities. But it fall we launched the Acadia Leadership clearly showed the important role Friends Academy, providing a six-month leadership of Acadia and our communities play in development course through the upcoming supporting the park. winter season for 15 park employees. These This year was yet another busy year at employees will meet on a monthly basis and

Acadia National Park. Although summer CONTI FOA /AYTT/ASHLEY participate in instructor-led training, such as visitation was slightly reduced in comparison parking at Hulls Cove. crucial conversations, public speaking, and with the previous season (and the year will Hulls Cove plays a critical role in mindful leadership. The academy provides certainly end as the second busiest in park implementing the transportation plan, and a forum where park employees from all history), we saw on July 5 the busiest single conceptual designs will allow us to examine aspects of our operations can discuss with day in the park’s history. On October 13, how we can redevelop the area’s entire their colleagues the challenges they face, a beautiful fall day, 2,600 cars drove up footprint. We will provide visitors with creating a peer-based group to support and Cadillac Mountain—including 524 in a one- expanded parking to leave their cars behind learn from one another. hour time span! and ride the Island Explorer. The visitor And last, but not least, we will continue Thankfully, we completed our Transporta- center—used by 71 percent of our visitors— to focus on understanding how a changing tion Plan in May, providing a blueprint for could become one of the signature locations climate will affect Acadia’s delicate ecosystem. managing congestion into the future. While in Acadia, providing a place to learn about Thanks to initiatives like FOA’s Wild Acadia the plan is completed, implementation of it Acadia’s unique ecology and its human and Second Century Campaign, we will will take some time and will be a significant history from the Wabanki to the Rusticators, learn more about climate change and build priority for us in the coming years. to the local stone masons that built the resiliency to adapt in the face of profound The park’s priorities will remain unchanged. carriage roads. Conceptual designs will also ecosystem change. We will be working to preserve the Acadia allow us to consider moving the access to No doubt 2020 will be a busy one for our experience and implement the transportation the carriage roads to a better location within team. But I am confident that with partners plan. This includes implementation of the the Hulls Cove footprint and eliminate the like Friends of Acadia we can rise to meet timed entry reservation system for private steep hill that has contributed to several these challenges. autos. This is a complicated effort, and we accidents and is a barrier for many visitors. On behalf of all of us at Acadia National want to make sure we get it right, so we are They could allow us to consider building Park, best wishes to you and yours for a proceeding thoughtfully and carefully. an accessible interpretive boardwalk trail bright New Year, filled with time in Acadia! We expect to release in 2020 a prospectus on the site, complementing the indoor for concession-operated bus tours in Acadia. museum exhibits. This is a major part of the transportation plan Nurturing and sustaining the NPS and will allow us to transition to smaller- workforce will remain a major priority for sized touring buses on the Park Loop Road, us in 2020. One of the biggest expressions —Kevin Schneider eliminating large motor coaches that cannot of this will be redesigning our maintenance safely navigate Acadia’s narrow roadways. and headquarters campus at McFarland Hill In 2020 we also expect to begin conceptual to ultimately provide our employees with design for a new visitor center and expanded Friends of Acadia Journal Winter 2019 9 Acadia Insider

Compendium Contains Full List Of Acadia Rules By Earl Brechlin

hile signs and other indirect mushrooms, fiddleheads, and cones from was amended to implement that directive. It methods of behavior modifica- conifers such as pine, spruce and fir trees, allows Class I (pedal assist) e-bikes only. Wtion help visitors comply with however, is illegal. In general, park officials do an annual the rules throughout Acadia National Park, a All dogs must be on a leash no longer than review and update the list each spring. comprehensive list of what folks can and can- six feet in length, and owners are required to According to Schneider, park officials not do is contained in the official Superinten- clean up after their pets, regardless of location. are reticent to rely on writing tickets for dent’s Compendium. Drone use requires a special permit as does infractions, preferring to use a blend of signs, Residing on the park’s website, the 50 any commercial photography. And use of any individual visitor contacts, traffic control pages of rules and regulations, along with submarines in waters under park jurisdiction devices and techniques, and other methods supporting statements, are a sort of a Park requires special permission. to encourage voluntary compliance. Service Pinterest page of detailed dos and Closures to protect wildlife, such as nesting Because of natural institutional pressure don’ts. While broad federal statutes govern loons and peregrine falcons, are also spelled to erect more and more signs, Acadia has a major violations of law, superintendents out in the compendium. special committee that must review every throughout the National Park System need Except in emergency situations, there is a request and placement. Too many signs, flexibility to formulate and adopt individual public notice requirement. That is most often according to Schneider, can erode the visitor regulations in a timely, realistic, and satisfied by the park issuing a press release, experience and can be distracting to drivers. responsive fashion. Supt. Schneider added. “Signing is only minimally effective,” explains “The Superintendent’s Compendium allows If a new rule is apt to be controversial, Schneider. “It’s important when we do, to for the creation of rules specifically for local or a major departure from past practice, a use positive messages such as ‘Please stay on conditions,” Acadia Superintendent Kevin more formal procedure must be followed. trail,’” compared to ‘“Don’t leave the trail.’” Schneider explains. “Things of a more substantive nature have to When considering amendments to the Along with road closure timing, fee go through a rule-making process,” he says. compendium, park officials also must remain schedules for entrance and camping, “Actually, we don’t change the rules all that mindful that sometimes adopting a closure prohibitions on hunting and use of some frequently.” or new rule can backfire when it draws motorboats, Acadia’s compendium covers Earlier this fall, Interior Department higher- unwanted attention to sensitive areas. some other, less routine topics. For instance, ups dictated that electric motorized bicycles “We want to be careful not to reveal the visitors can pick up to half a gallon of were no longer classified as motor vehicles. location of archeological sites or bird nests blueberries per day each for personal They gave individual superintendents 30 days or bears’ dens—things of that nature,” consumption. And, as many as ten gallons to draft rules allowing them wherever regular Schneider explains. of apples per person can be taken. Removing bicycles are permitted. Acadia’s Compendium In Acadia, a good example is a spot where fragile tide pool dwellers there can literally be trampled to death. But adopting a formal closure might also increase the visibility of the location. In the end, park officials decades ago decided to simply remove mention of it from maps as a way of reducing visitation. According to Schneider, most decisions involving the compendium generate a broad philosophical discussion and ultimately, need to include a good dose of common sense. Balancing the need to protect the park with making sure visitors have an enjoyable experience, is sometimes difficult to do, Schneider explains. “Personally, I don’t like

FOA/JULIA WALKER THOMAS FOA/JULIA WALKER closing stuff unless we really have to.” � Acadia National Park Law Enforcement Ranger Tim Rand uses a snowmobile to patrol on the windswept Cadillac Mountain Summit Road. 10 Winter 2019 Friends of Acadia Journal FOA/ASHLEY CONTI Acadia National Park visitors consult large map displays that are part of the revamped visitor center in Hulls Cove that reopened in June. Visitor Center Redo Seeks to Bridge Gap By Earl Brechlin

cadia National Park’s revamped Hulls Bar Harbor. King Construction Services of used to just echo all over the place in there,” Cove Visitor Center opened its doors Ellsworth was the general contractor. Madell explains. Ain late June and so far, both the staff The partial federal government Gone is the large, 3-D model of Mount and the public are giving it high marks. shutdown last January and weather Desert Island that once occupied the middle Constructed more than 50 years ago, as challenges contributed to a delay in the of the center’s lobby. “It’s been in storage both visitor center and headquarters, the planned May reopening. for around four years now. No decision has building’s space and design limitations have Work involved the gutting of the entire been made whether or not to possibly reuse become increasingly difficult to deal with main floor including a small theater area. it in the future,” Madell adds. over the years. Much as the surrounding That is now the Eastern National gift shop. Although the renovations are an forest, recovering from the Great Fire of Restrooms were expanded and access to improvement, the center still suffers 1947, has grown and obscured the once- them created from the outside to allow from a major lack of space for exhibits or panoramic view of Frenchman Bay from their use by visitors when the main lobby interactive displays. Officials are exploring the center’s lobby, Acadia’s popularity has isn’t open. the possibility of building an entirely new, overtopped the facility as well. In the previous configuration, visitors ground-level visitor center on the site. “For visitation of 3.5 million it is neither were required to form a single line to get That, however, could take several years to the right size nor configuration,” says park information or purchase a park pass. materialize, Madell notes. Assistant Superintendent Michael Madell. Often the line curled around the lobby, out As part of the park’s transportation To begin with, he explains, the center the front door and across the draw bridge- plan (see related story on page 14), other was built on the side of a hill. The main like entrance porch. major changes also are contemplated access path includes 52 steps from the The new layout separates the two for the visitor center area, including the primary parking lot. That forces those with processes resulting in shorter waits, construction of hundreds of additional disabilities to use a rear door to be able to especially for return visitors just looking to parking spaces and expanded space for access the building’s elevator. Parking is get a pass. “It seems to be working better,” Island Explorer bus operations. extremely limited near that entrance. Madell says. “During peak times, the lines The recent renovations, while definitely Design and planning for the renovations may still get long.” an upgrade, are not intended to be a final began more than two years ago. Work Other changes include filling stations for solution, Madell explains. Rather, they are started right after the center closed last visitors’ reusable water bottles, brochure aimed at “bridging the gap between the old fall. The lead architectural firm for the racks, and interpretive displays. Additional facility and when a new one can be built.” project was VHB of South Portland, which insulation was installed and sound- He adds, “It isn’t everything we need there, worked with Fraser Associates Architects of deadening materials added. “The sound but something had to be done.” �

Friends of Acadia Journal Winter 2019 11 Acadia’s Coat of Many Colors Photographs by Ashley L. Conti

n a place where autumn’s splendor impresses with every turn of the head, the east face of Champlain Mountain in Acadia National Park seen from a marsh along the ISchooner Head Road (bottom) is one of the island’s quintessential scenes. But along with sweeping vistas, Acadia provides more intimate glimpses of nature’s coat of many fall colors, including along the Hemlock Path near Sieur de Monts Spring (upper right) and near the Jesup Trail (upper left).

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Friends of Acadia Journal Winter 2019 13 IN NOMINE Transportation Plan Inches Ahead We gratefully acknowledge gifts received in honor of: By Earl Brechlin Perry Albert and Regina Catherine Michael Chateaunef Lennox* Maddy August and Sarah Logue Matt Present Laura Mazzenga Julie Banzhaf-Stone Dan McKay fter more than two years of hard be lifted and put into Acadia,” he adds. and Steve Stone Jean Owen Phyllis Beallor* Thomas H. Pendergast Jr. work, a formal transportation plan Eventually the park will issue formal Marie and Penn and C aimed at easing congestion, traffic, requests for proposals for the actual Gerry Berlin Heather Peterson A Megan and Charlotte and and environmental damage from growing reservation system. Rick Bourke Bob Pulitzer visitation was finally adopted for Acadia Acadia will issue a prospectus in 2020 Earl Brechlin Emily Radkowski National Park last May. It features major for several concession operators to handle Cameron Robert Rebecca, Morgan, and changes in parking areas, mandates that all buses within the park. Plans call for a Brown Bar Harbor Villager concession operators use smaller buses, reduction in the current maximum bus Carol Bult and Motel Staff Lili Pew Beth Rendeiro and expands the Island Explorer shuttle length of 50 feet, down to 38 feet. Christine and Joseph Steven DePaul bus system, and allows visitors to have Operators using 15-passenger vans Bob Clark John D. Rockefeller Jr.* reservations to visit the busiest areas of the and smaller vehicles will continue to be Gail and Ham Clark Sally and Ted Rorer Donna Eacho Jack Russell park such as Ocean Drive, Jordan Pond, managed via the commercial operator’s Erin and Chris Force Donna Shurilla and the summit of Cadillac Mountain permit system. Harris Goldberg The Sprowls Family during peak times. It took two years Another ongoing initiative involves Anne Green Martha Stewart Becky and Levi Stiles of talking with numerous stakeholders, planning for better data connectivity in the Doug Heden Frank Stuart* working with planners, and holding public park to allow the necessary “smart” systems Jason Hilkovitch at Daniel Taroli hearings to get to the point where a final used by equipment and mobile devices to Plum Lake Library Jane Ingraham decision could be made. be more reliable. Priscilla and Jack Thomas Hirschenhofer Nathan Vincent Now comes the hard part. In order for the plan to work, major Lisa Horsch Clark Melissa and According to John Kelly, management changes in infrastructure also will be needed. Susan Howard* Reeve Waud assistant at the park, officials are currently “The first big piece is the Hulls Cove Islesford Historical Kim Wentworth Museum The Wild Gardens of working on a broad number of initiatives Visitor Center,” Kelly explains. The parking Nicole and Acadia Volunteers to bring that plan to fruition. “People ask area there will need to be enlarged. Right Michael Johnson Jack Zettler* what has to happen first; well, everything lane parking along Ocean Drive could then Ruby Johnson Dorothy Zucker* Sharon Johnson has to happen first,” Kelly says. be prohibited. The park is also exploring the Lydia Kimball June1, 2019 – Last year, the U.S. Department of possibility of a new Visitors Center as well. Brenda and September, 2019 Transportation’s Volpe Center completed (See related story on page 11). Peter Kimble *Deceased a year-long study of the Island Explorer Likewise, the Gateway Center in Trenton Doug Lake Jr. Amanda Lakomy and System that will help inform the process. will need to be completed. “The state has David Solomon Once reservations are required for the really engaged us to build out the last busiest areas, the demand to use buses to phase,” Kelly says. He continued that a access those areas is projected to jump. finalized design for more parking and a Down East Transportation, operators visitor center is almost ready to go. of the Explorer, have engaged Bar Harbor “The challenge now is funding,” he transportation consultant Tom Crikelair, continues. The total estimated cost is $18- who designed the original system, through a $20 million. The Park Service has some FOA-funded study to determine what form in reserve, there is the possibility of $5 that expansion might take. million in bond funds from Maine, and “There are already plans to expand the other sources are being explored. fleet of buses by five,” explains Kelly. After the Eagle Lake carriage roads are Officials hope revenue from the rehabbed next year, an equipment and reservation system will underwrite some materials staging area at Liscomb Pit will capital expenses and pay for the expansion be rebuilt as a parking lot for as many as of the Explorer. 125 cars. Eventually a new lot would need Earlier this year, park officials put out to be sited and built near Acadia Mountain a “request for information,” and met with on Route 102. Roadside parking would be potential vendors of reservation systems. banned in both those areas. “It’s a learning tool for us,” says Kelly. “So continued on page 30

far we haven’t seen anything that can just FOA/AIMEE BEAL CHURCH 14 Winter 2019 Friends of Acadia Journal Acadia Is Ideal Winter Classroom By Lynn Fantom

inter is College of the Atlantic but Dr. Ressel also shares his zeal for winter combines forests, wetlands, and freshwater (COA) Professor Steve Ressel’s with “lifelong learners” who visit Mount lakes and streams. And because the state Wfavorite season. But that hasn’t Desert Island on the Road Scholar program, stocks ponds in the area with trout, you always been the case. formerly known as Elderhostel. might see signs of river otters—if not the He grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania After a presentation in October, Joan actual animals themselves. where, he explains, the winters are, well, Fulrath of Scottsdale, Arizona, raved about To look for mink activity, he says, follow “wimpy,” compared to Maine. “his passion, knowledge, intensity.” the Hadlock Brook Trail up to Sargent Now, as the holder of the Kim M. Mountain. The deep spruce-fir forest is the Wentworth Chair in Environmental Studies “Snow reveals the gossip of habitat of porcupines and small perching at COA in Bar Harbor, Dr. Ressel shares birds. At the summit, search the skies and his favorite aspects of winter—surprising the night,” says Dr. Ressel, wind-blown drifts for snowy owls while you activity under the ice of a frozen pond, sharing a sentiment of think about how the elevation—more wind, soft afternoon light creating lengthening less snow—represents a more challenging shadows, and the absence of pesky insects— naturalist Edwin Way Teale. climate for many hardy organisms. with his students in a winter ecology class. In art and in science, some of the greatest And, what better place to use as a living The age of his students is irrelevant. All wonders cannot be heard or seen … just laboratory than Acadia National Park? soon begin to share in Dr. Ressel’s obvious imagined. And one of the greatest aspects Nearly 85 percent of class time is spent enthusiasm for the subject. of winter is that it allows those who ponder outside. With its snow-laced spruce In his office tucked under the eaves of its challenges to imagine the unimaginable, and fir woods, looking-glass lakes, and COA’s George B. Dorr Museum of Natural Dr. Ressel says. How animals survive winter gusty barren mountaintops, Acadia offers History, wearing jeans and hiking boots, sometimes simply defies logic. an environment that “seals the deal for Dr. Ressel seems almost wistful for the Take the golden-crowned kinglet, for students,” he explains. outdoors as he shares the best locales for example. Stripped of its feathers, it is about The winter course has been part of the winter studies in Acadia. He cites the Witch the size of a little finger. Not only does it COA undergraduate curriculum since 1994, Hole Pond carriage road loop, because it lose heat faster than larger animals, but it PHOTO COURTESY OF STEVE RESSEL PHOTO COURTESY COA Professor Steve Ressel, center, talks with his Winter Ecology course students during a field trip in Acadia National Park. Friends of Acadia Journal Winter 2019 15 Winter classroom, continued eats insects, not seeds. Yet, it survives winter profoundly fascinating world—even if you Acadia’s Winter when insects disappear. do not see an animal during each outing. As A winter adaptation of another nature writer Margaret Renkl says, “What Classroom nonmigratory bird, the black-capped lies just in front of me is not all there is.” chickadee, is similarly unimaginable. In A key step is to separate these ecology the fall, its hippocampus, the area of the treks from recreational activities. Plan on brain responsible for spatial recognition taking more time. You miss things when and short-term memory, increases in size— “you’re whizzing by on cross-country skis or helping the chickadee to remember where ice skating,” Dr. Ressel warns. it has hidden seeds. The same increase in Instead, put on snowshoes and embark brain size is true of some small mammals. upon “careful, attentive observation.” Look Mice, voles, and shrews also have for tracks. Beyond identifying them, follow specialized tissue on their backs that the tracks to gain insight about the animal’s throws off metabolic heat. It also increases activities. Did it take a sudden turn? Do the in the fall and diminishes in the spring, tracks disappear and re-emerge? notes Dr. Ressel. Why? As a zoologist specializing in comparative Think about the subnivean zone animal physiology, Dr. Ressel is fascinated between the bottom of the snowpack and with such changes, as well as the behavioral the surface of the ground. It’s a valuable adaptations animals make in colder weather. retreat for mice, voles, and shrews, fleeing For example, follow the tracks of white- both the cold and predators. tailed deer and then you might suddenly In addition to tracks, the surface of the see a deep depression in the snow. The snow might also reveal a story about last deer has made an executive decision that it night’s dinner: the fish scales of a trout eaten costs more energy to continue looking for by a ravenous river otter or the leftovers of a food than the energy it would get from that pinecone devoured like corn-on-the-cob by food. So, it “plops” down. But note where a red squirrel. the deer chooses — not in areas of birch, “Snow reveals the gossip of the night,” says but in stands of more protective spruce and Dr. Ressel, sharing a sentiment of naturalist fir trees, which offer sheltering boughs and Edwin Way Teale. � thick trunks that radiate heat. Once such facts enter your awareness, LYNN FANTOM is a retired advertising they change how you perceive winter. agency owner and freelance writer. She So, how might you experience some of divides her time between homes in the magic of winter yourself? Somesville and New York City. Dr. Ressel starts by sharing some practical precautions. Take steps to ensure your comfort and safety (especially if venturing onto ice), and then brace yourself for a

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16 Winter 2019 Friends of Acadia Journal Along with other locations in Maine, students in Professor Steve Ressel’s Winter Ecology class at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor spend hours each week in the living laboratory that is Acadia National Park. Among the images collected during the classes are, counter clockwise from top left, a single snowflake on a seed, bear cubs being studied during their mother’s winter torpor, otter tracks around an opening in the ice, student shadows on a late afternoon, and the winter landscape atop Acadia’s Sargent Mountain. PHOTOS COURTESY OF STEVE RESSEL PHOTOS COURTESY

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Friends of Acadia Journal Winter 2019 23 Updates FOA/JULIA WALKER THOMAS FOA/JULIA WALKER Ranger Michael Marion talks about the history of Baker Island in Acadia National Park while leading a tour. Friends of Acadia has provided funds to help preserve the island’s historic structures. Historic Rehab a conditions assessment report of the Maya Sosland, a graduate of Oberlin College In 2017, patrons at the Friends of Acadia lighthouse tower, the keeper’s house, the with degrees in Environmental Studies Benefit collectively donated more than oil shed, and the fuel house. This funding and Politics, joined the staff in June as the $240,000 to renovate Acadia’s historic leveraged $28,000 in federal contributions structures, including the park’s buildings on from Acadia’s entrance fees. The National Baker Island. The Baker Island Light served Park Service’s Historic Preservation Training as a beacon marking the southern entrance Center will be working through February to Frenchman Bay. The historic structures on 2020 to document the conditions of the the island date mostly from the mid- to late- facilities and prepare recommendations for 1800’s and have been closed to the public treatment and future uses for each building. due to hazardous materials and conditions. The report will serve as the roadmap for Great strides were made this year by future stabilization and restoration. the park service toward protecting the historical integrity of these structures Advocacy Efforts Bolstered and making them safer for the public to Friends of Acadia’s 2018-2023 strategic enjoy. Friends of Acadia’s funding was plan includes emphasis on advocacy and used to assess the presence of hazardous communication as tools to help FOA materials, including lead paint, asbestos, reach a broader audience and achieve the and universal waste such as petroleum organization’s objectives. Those include products and mercury switches. protecting natural resources, improving Licensed contractors removed asbestos the visitor experience, raising awareness roof shingles from the oil shed, enabling about park funding needs, and engaging the park service to repair the leaking roof young people. THOMAS FOA/JULIA WALKER Maya Sosland with cedar shingles and prevent further In 2019, FOA launched a new seasonal degradation. Asbestos was also found in the position, the Advocacy Assistant, to Advocacy Assistant. After a brief orientation, keeper’s house in floor tiles, pipe insulation, research and write a variety of briefing Sosland combed the literature and met with and the stove thimble. A treatment or statements on topics such as climate change park staff on assigned topics. She developed a removal plan has not yet been decided. at Acadia, invasive plants, air quality, general format for issue briefings that includes Friends of Acadia has also contributed deferred maintenance, and contracting and a summary, documentation of what is known $34,242 toward detailed drawings and expenditure of fee money. continued on page 27 24 Winter 2019 Friends of Acadia Journal In-Kind Hale & Hamlin, LLC June 1, 2019 – September 30, 2019 Attorneys at Law Anonymous (2) A.C. Parsons Landscaping and Garden Center Barry K. Mills • Melissa M. Hale Acadia Trail Sign Company Justin M. Bennett • Sally N. 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A Classic Bar Harbor Hotel continued from page 24 Openings may be available on the about the topic in Acadia, and information on Acadia Digital Media Team, Acadia Youth how citizens or decision-makers can help. Conservation Corps, Stewardship Crew, Sosland’s work on deferred maintenance at and Summit Stewards, and for a Recreation Enjoy our on-site Eden Spa, Acadia was shared with Congressman Roger Technician and a Wild Gardens Intern. These Looking Glass Restaurant Marshall (KS-01) on his July visit to the park. teams work in the park and are supervised by & Great Room Piano Lounge. Her research on barriers to efficient contracting park staff. 90 Eden Street | (207) 288-3348 and expenditure of fee revenues in national Check the employment opportunities www.barharborhotel.com parks was also shared by FOA President David section of the FOA website. MacDonald at the fall 2019 Friends Alliance meeting, eliciting a positive response from Zoellick Honored colleagues across the country. Friends of Acadia Board Member and “Maya’s documents will be available for Schoodic Institute Director of Education Thunder Hole FOA to use and update as conditions change,” Research Emeritus Bill Zoellick received Cadillac Mountain said Stephanie Clement, FOA Conservation the 2019 Acadia Partners Award in Jordan Pond House Director. “She took special care in ensuring September. AWNLAND that all statements were backed by citations, The staff of Acadia National Park D which is very important when discussing selected Zoellick for his vision and topics such as the effects of climate change dedication in the development of at Acadia.” Sosland also participated with Schoodic Institute, the nonprofit science Offering fresh and high quality federal, state, and local officials in several and education organization that works Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegars press events, such as the celebration of the with the National Park Service to lead Come in and taste for yourself! Island Explorer’s 20th anniversary and a the Research Learning Center on the 8 Rodick Place • Bar Harbor 503 Main Street • Rockland deferred maintenance information session Schoodic Peninsula. 88 Main Street • Freeport with Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02). “Bill has been involved with Schoodic 90 Maine Street • Brunswick She monitored Congressional hearings on Institute since its inception,” said Acadia At the Vault • Lewiston At Tiller & Rye • Brewer national park issues, witnessed how local National Park Superintendent Kevin OPEN YEAR ROUND planning boards deal with controversial Schneider. “Through that time, he has filled www.FIOREoliveoils.com WE SHIP! subjects, attended meetings of the FOA numerous roles, most notably building www.facebook.com /FIOREoliveoils Maine’s 2013 Woman-Owned Advocacy Committee and Board of Directors, an education research program that has Business of the Year and participated by phone in meetings of the continued on page 28 National Parks 2nd Century Action Coalition.

AWTA Gears Up Get your skis ready! The Acadia Winter Trails Association volunteer groomers are gearing up for the 2020 winter season. The new snowmobile will be trail-ready when the snow base allows grooming. Friends of Acadia and Acadia National Park staff will continue volunteer training and program improvements in the upcoming season, such as improved communications and preservation of grooming efforts through suggested travel lanes for skiers, walkers, and snowshoers.

Seasonal Openings Looking for a meaningful paid internship FOA/EARL BRECHLIN in Acadia National Park? Friends of Acadia Board Member and Schoodic Institute Friends of Acadia will be posting our Director of Education Research Emeritus Bill Zoellick seasonal positions for 2020 in late December. received the 2019 Acadia Partners Award in September. Friends of Acadia Journal Winter 2019 27 to any partner (group, organization Updates or individual) who shows exceptional dedication and support to the park’s benefited local and statewide communities mission, making a significant contribution and is also nationally known.” to Acadia, its resources, or for its visitors, Schneider cited Zoellick’s work with employees, researchers or volunteers. the Dragonfly Mercury Project, a citizen- science program that has now run in more Honorary FOA Trustee dies at 85 than 100 national parks, and Community Long-time Friends of Acadia Honorary Shellfish Investigations with students Trustee and retired NBC newsman Jack at Sumner High School, local clammers Perkins passed away at his home on Casey and shellfish managers, to test methods Key in Florida on Aug. 19 at the age of 85. to reduce predation of clams by invasive After retiring from corporate journalism green crabs. in 1984, Perkins and his wife MaryJo As a member of the FOA Board, Zoellick moved to Bar Harbor, eventually building has been instrumental in development an off-grid house “Moosewood” on Bar of the Wild Acadia initiative. “Thanks Island on property surrounded by Acadia to Bill’s dedication and vision, Acadia National Park.

National Park and Schoodic Institute In 2003 the couple sold “Moosewood” to PERKINS FAMILY have become a hub for community- the park. The house and small outbuildings Jack Perkins based science—science that engages were later torn down to allow the island to extended to Friends of Acadia when he learners of all ages and addresses critical return to its natural state. made a generous grant to help subsidize environmental challenges,” said Schoodic While in Maine, Perkins, who worked the publication of photographer Tom Institute Interim President and CEO in retirement for the History Channel and Blagden’s coffee-table book “First Light, Nicholas Fisichelli. Jeff Dobbs Productions, also expanded his Acadia National Park and Maine’s Mount “Being recognized by the team at Acadia artistic repertoire. He published the softcover Desert Island.” National Park is deeply meaningful to “Parasols of Fern, A Book about Wonder” and The cause of death was complications me,” said Zoellick. “Being able to return later a coffee-table book of his large-format, from Parkinson’s Disease. � to working with educators and young black and white photographs of Acadia people after 30 years of doing other things coupled with original poetry. “Acadia Visions has been really special.” and Verse” remains in print. The Acadia Partners Award is presented Perkins’ embrace of literary pursuits also FOA/STEPHANIE CLEMENT SUMMER SESSION AT SCHOODIC…Friends of Acadia’s Board, along with staff members, took a ferry across the bay in August for a meeting at the Schoodic Institute. The excursion included a tour of Acadia National Park’s new campground at Schoodic, as well as a joint lunch with members of the Institute’s Board of Directors. Discussions centered on areas of possible collaboration and on ways for FOA to partner with SI on implementing key elements of the park’s priorities. Above, FOA board members and staff, fresh off the Island Explorer shuttle bus, pose near the Institute’s main entrance.

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Friends of Acadia Journal Winter 2019 29 New Directors BE A TRAILBLAZER WITH A MONTHLY GIFT

Julie Banzhaf Stone David Katona Julie Banzhaf Stone first came to Mount David Katona grew up in Bar Harbor on Desert Island in 1989 while dating her Mount Desert Island, enjoying Acadia husband, Steve. She holds a B.A. in National Park as his expansive backyard German and History from Macalester for many years. A graduate of Bates riends of Acadia’s Trailblazer College, an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher College, he lives in Manhattan with his FMonthly Giving program School of Law and Diplomacy at wife Laura (Clark) and daughter Allie. spreads your membership gifts Tufts University, and a Certificate of Katona is currently at Jefferies LLC and a throughout the year, using a credit Nonprofit Management from Georgetown member of the firm’s Capital Intelligence University’s McCourt School of Public card. Trailblazer gifts go farther, team where he advises alternative Policy. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the saving paper and postage costs by investment managers on their industry University of Hamburg in Germany. avoiding renewal requests. Gifts positioning and capital raising strategies. are processed on the ﬁrst business As director of programs for The Hitachi Prior to Jefferies, Katona was a Partner Foundation, she was responsible for the day of each month, beginning at Abundance Partners and co-founder of development and implementation of all the month after you sign up. Each Spruce Point Capital Management, both foundation strategies and programs. In New York City-based investment firms. January we’ll mail you a letter more recent years, Julie has engaged in acknowledging your total gift for intensive pro bono strategic advisory A talented musician and avid tennis the past year, with our thanks for activities with a wide variety of player, Katona is also a co-founder your help in protecting Acadia—all organizations in Washington, DC, and of biotechnology firm Nanocare year long. with Friends of Acadia and the Jackson Technologies. He is also involved with Lab in Maine. several other non-profits including The o be a Trailblazer, just go to River Fund in New York and Sedona Banzhaf Stone divides her time between Sheperd in New Jersey. Tfriendsofacadia.org/giving- Washington, DC and Hulls Cove on MDI. membership/monthly-giving and Her husband and children, Emily and click on the “Give Now” button. Sam, are all graduates of Bates. After designating the amount you would like to donate each month, select “Make this a monthly gift.” Transportation Plan, continued from page 14 You can change the amount of your gift or opt out of the program And finally, the park is also stepping up “It’s a fluid process,” says Kelly, referring at any time. its outreach efforts to educate the public on to the adaptive management approach what to expect as reservations begin to go the park is taking. “It’s a learning process live in 2021. for sure.” � For information, According to Kelly, park visitors shouldn’t contactFor information, Friends of Acadia Developmentcontact Dev Officeelopment at 207-288-3340 Ofﬁcer see too much change next year. “We won’t EARL BRECHLIN is Friends of Acadia’s Sharon Broom at 207-288-3340 or [email protected] [email protected] be implementing full programs in 2020,” communications director. Kelly explains. “Maybe there will be some test runs.” 30 Winter 2019 Friends of Acadia Journal Chair’s Letter

Challenges and Unanticipated Joys

ust like that, 2019 is drawing to a close. Grand Teton and Yellowstone national Reflecting over another terrific year for parks for the first time. I remain in awe of JFriends of Acadia, some special events the abundant, up-close wildlife sightings, and milestones—and even some the massive scale of the landscape, and challenges—are worth highlighting. the biological and geographical diversity The partial government shutdown including geysers, geothermal features, provided a rocky start to the beginning of the cascading waterfalls, jagged peaks, subalpine year, yet the park staff ultimately managed to forest, and megafauna such as elk and bison. get Acadia up and running smoothly for the Three park rangers I spoke with mentioned season. Thanks to the widespread support that they were applying to Acadia next from the local communities, along with the summer. They explained that “everyone” professionalism of the skeleton crew of park wants to work in Acadia! staff, operations continued during the difficult Their questions about staff accommodations 35 days of Acadia being closed. here reminded me of the critical issue of

Thanks also goes to the communication FOA housing on Mount Desert Island and creative efforts by FOA—our regular updates during We are all thankful for the tremendous ways FOA could be of assistance. that difficult time had an estimated reach of generosity of those who raised their paddles Also attending were National Park Service 1.1 million people. and those who supported us in so many ways Acting Deputy Director of Operations David The much-anticipated summer season that evening. Vela and National Park Foundation CEO started with headlines about park congestion. In September came an order from the Will Shafroth. Their informative remarks On July 5, the park hit an all-time record for Secretary of the Interior about a new policy focused on educating the friends community visitation. Numerous road and facility closures allowing e-bikes on federal lands. about how best to modernize facilities and were needed, multiple rescues occurred, and FOA received both pro and con comments accommodate park visitors. dispatchers were swamped with calls. from our membership and the general public. While I loved visiting Grand Teton and FOA’s Summit Stewards helped manage We had many concerns about allowing e-bikes Yellowstone, it is always great to be back three closures to vehicles on the summit on on the carriage roads such as increased user in Acadia. Cadillac and assisted in three simultaneous conflicts and worries that a precedent might I look forward to working with the rescues. We were just one among many local be set for allowing other motorized uses on FOA Board and partners at Acadia in the and state partners assisting the park during the carriage roads. The potential for negative coming year. Some long-term goals include the unprecedented weekend. resource protection impacts is real. broadening relationships with corporations, A better visitor experience is a key pillar The new e-bike policy, which allows growing our planned giving program, of FOA. As the much-anticipated Acadia only class 1 (pedal assist only) bikes in and aiding in the implementation of the Transportation Plan is implemented, it is Acadia, has prompted FOA and park staff transportation plan. Always at the core of our projected that scenarios like this should occur to renew conversations about reinstating the work is continuing to build trust and support less frequently. monitoring of the carriage road usage, as well with our members, donors, volunteers, and One extremely successful and exciting as implementing an expanded carriage road park partners. event that took place in August was the 30th etiquette campaign. Being courteous and Much like a robust hike in Acadia, or Benefit Auction, where more than 500 friends respectful of all park visitors looking to enjoy a trip to another park, there will always be gathered. Some 87 individuals raised their the solitude and beauty of this natural and challenges along with unanticipated joys. paddles to collectively contribute $318,800 to cultural treasure is essential Thank you for being a friend to Acadia and restore Acadia’s historic carriage road bridges. At the end of summer, I attended the my deepest appreciation to those dedicated Acadia has been several years behind in its Friends Alliance conference in Jackson, volunteers who committed more than 14,000 effort to restore these bridges and did not have Wyoming, hosted by our park partner friends hours in 2019. a dedicated funding source. at Grand Teton. Our own FOA President, The work that FOA donors made possible David MacDonald has recently taken on the In Gratitude, includes re-pointing, re-bedding, and important role as President of the Friend’s replacing granite where stones and masonry Alliance Steering Committee. have been dislodged, repairing concrete and The Alliance brings together groups from —Anne B. Green mortar, and removal of efflorescence. throughout the country. I got to see both Friends of Acadia Journal Winter 2019 31 Special Person

Sharon Broom, Development Officer By Earl Brechlin

riends of Acadia will be bidding adieu Sharon says Friends of Acadia has made to a much-loved staff member as of progress in demonstrating that development FJanuary 1. efforts are not just about wealthy donors, but Development Officer Sharon Broom, about building relationships with people in who coordinates FOA’s Annual Fund, every walk of life. “Over the years, FOA has membership, and Business Member placed an increased emphasis on engaging programs, announced her retirement earlier people of all backgrounds with events, this fall after 13 years of service. programs, and volunteer opportunities,” “My time with FOA has been an incredible she says. “We really are a more integral part opportunity. I can’t begin to explain what it is of the community now. Our supporters like to work with a staff of such high-caliber include a nice mix of residents, folks who people,” she says. “I’m looking forward have retired here, regular visitors, and public to exploring the possibilities of complete and private groups.” idleness,” she adds with a laugh. According to FOA President David Anyone who knows or who has worked MacDonald, Sharon’s impact on the with Sharon understands that humor. organization transcends merely doing an She has worked tirelessly strengthening THOMAS FOA/JULIA WALKER exemplary job. Sharon Broom the FOA Annual Fund and expanding “Sharon’s gracious approach to her work membership. Since she joined the staff in “They love Acadia and many of them have has earned her many fans and brought FOA 2006, membership has grown from around been volunteering for decades. They see it many supporters over the years,” he says. 3,000 people to nearly 5,000. as a great way to give back to a place that “Her love for the park and her concern Much of this growth has come from the means so much to them. They have really for each individual with whom she comes membership table program created by Sharon become like family.” in contact, whether a member, volunteer, or in 2007. Volunteers greet park visitors at the Sharon’s affection for her co-workers and co-worker, has truly helped to define FOA as Jordan Pond House throughout the summer volunteers has been returned in spades. an organization. and talk to them about FOA’s mission, “It’s been such a pleasure working with “We all will miss her. But we know that no programs, and events. It draws between 500 you,” wrote membership table volunteer one is more deserving of a happy retirement and 600 new members each year. Georgia Munsell in a recent note. “Whether to pursue her many other talents and She also developed the office volunteer offering encouragement, suggestions for interests.” program, coordinated the silent auction improvement or just generally being a In retirement, Sharon will continue to volunteers for the annual Benefit, and wrote cheerful booster, you have inspired us all.” pursue her cottage industry making artisan grant proposals. Those sentiments are echoed by FOA’s jewelry and is contemplating doing some A native of Tennessee, Sharon and her Director of Development, Lisa Horsch Clark. volunteering of her own. husband Dick, a widely respected reporter “Sharon revolutionized the way we recruit, She also wants to discover more about for the Mount Desert Islander, came to Mount inspire, and employ volunteers in our Maine. “I’d like to take more time to explore Desert Island in 1999 from North Carolina workplace,” she says. craft sale venues up and down the coast,” when she was hired by the Abbe Museum. “The greatest example is when she estab- she explains. “It just felt like it was meant to be,” she lished the Friends of Acadia membership ta- Ultimately, any conversation about explains. ble program,” Horsch Clark says. “She is well her career at FOA or its encore comes After seven years, she joined FOA. There organized and beloved by the volunteers. All back around to Sharon’s appreciation for were eight full-time, year-round people in the volunteers and the staff of Friends of Aca- volunteers. “I have been honored to work the office. When she leaves at the end of dia will miss Sharon greatly.” with them,” she says. “They have truly been December, there will be a total of 16. According to Sharon, FOA’s positive impact inspirational.” � “I will miss my co-workers, but most of on the park and surrounding communities all, I will miss the volunteers,” says Sharon. has grown over the years. “Friends of Acadia EARL BRECHLIN is Friends of Acadia’s “We have a fabulous core group of is much more well-known now,” she says, communications director. volunteers who are deeply committed to citing community outreach, a strong internet helping Acadia and FOA,” she explains. presence, and popular social media activities. 32 Winter 2019 Friends of Acadia Journal Happy Holidays

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