Pete Salmansohn
ECHOES OF CHILDHOOD, ECHOES OF MAINE........
When my brother and I were young, our parents would take us each summer to a new place in the countryside where we could swim and fish...
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Pete Salmansohn
- May 5, 2021
- 5 min
Of Cormorants, Deer, and Geese, Oh My............
In the summer of 1998, nine men took several boat trips out to a small island in eastern Lake Ontario and shot approximately 900...
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Pete Salmansohn
- Jan 5, 2021
- 8 min
Farmer Steph - An Earthy Missionary!
Good news is frequently under the radar these days, as the late Pete Seeger reminded us, but we can find that good stuff by putting our...
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Pete Salmansohn
- Aug 25, 2020
- 5 min
Reporting From Puffin-Land in Mid-Coast Maine
When I first came to work as an instructor for adults at the Audubon Ecology Camp in Maine 40 years ago, I didn’t know the difference...
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Pete Salmansohn
- Jun 12, 2020
- 4 min
Hope is a thing with fins.................
Writing anything original and meaningful these days feels like a very daunting challenge. I’ve been feeling like a deer-in-the-headlights...
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Pete Salmansohn
- Mar 30, 2020
- 3 min
Meditations during early spring.
Spring is arriving here in fits and starts. The male cardinals in our neighborhood have been loudly singing the past few weeks, alerting...
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Pete Salmansohn
- Feb 17, 2020
- 4 min
Navigating a path amidst children's eco-anxiety
I recently saw on our neighborhood Facebook pages several photographs of a mock funeral march and event for planet earth and its...
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Pete Salmansohn
- Jan 24, 2020
- 4 min
Heroes, ecology, and lessons to be learned.
My world as a very impressionable kid growing up on Long Island was influenced in the late 1950’s and early ‘60’s by make-believe...
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Pete Salmansohn
- Jan 12, 2020
- 3 min
My friend Ted
In the early stages of my career as a neophyte young naturalist, I was introduced to a variety of hawk watchers, mentors, bird Gods,...
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Pete Salmansohn
- Jan 1, 2020
- 2 min
Brief reflections on a "new year"
At this time of year, in early January, my thoughts turn to the great observer and chronicler of nature – Hal Borland – who lived on a farm
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