Field Trips

Field Trips are being planned

Gilsland Farm is an invaluable resource for communities and families, hosting hundreds of year-round public programs, plus day camps, Maine Audubon’s Nature Store, and our Children’s Discovery Room and Educator Resource Center. Visitors can walk our trails, observe wildlife, explore the pond, or visit our peony garden.

Restoration of the fish ladder has had a significant positive impact on the health of the Damariscotta River alewife stocks. Alewives are an important part of the food chain and they contribute to the health of the marine environment and to the lakes and streams where the fish spawn. In the spring, a few harvested alewives are smoked as “people food” but most serve as a source of fresh bait for local lobstermen. The Towns of Newcastle and Nobleboro have harvested alewives since the 1700s and, by balancing conservation and economic goals, they have carefully tended the Damariscotta River alewife stocks.

Michael will offer a presentation.  "I plan to talk about my newest book, Mongrels of Our Making: The Plastiglomerates of Hawai’i (2025), and its connection to my first book, Take Me to the River (2016). I will show images and prints and plates from both projects.

"Mongrels [project] employs stereography to describe the plastiglomerates, odd objects found on a beach on Hawai’i’s Big Island and forged from marine-borne plastic and beach lava. Part of my interest in them stems from how they will likely become fossils of Modern life. In Take Me to the River I used the wet plate collodion process to make ambrotypes, unique positives on glass, to think about the intertwining histories of photography and industrialization along the Androscoggin River (seen from my studio window) and three other waterways on the East Coast.”

FIELD TRIP to Maine Audubon at Gilsland Farm in Falmouth starting at 3 p.m. Meet outside the doors of Maine Audubon's headquarters.