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Jan 6
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 a...

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Reporting From Puffin-Land in Mid-Coast Maine

Pete Salmansohn

Aug 26, 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 betw...

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Hope is a thing with fins.................

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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Navigating a path amidst children's eco-anxiety

Pete Salmansohn

Feb 18, 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 threaten...

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Heroes, ecology, and lessons to be learned.

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 televis...

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Pete Salmansohn

Jan 13, 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, anim...

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Pete Salmansohn

Jan 2, 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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Farmer Steph - An Earthy Missionary!

Reporting From Puffin-Land in Mid-Coast Maine

Hope is a thing with fins.................

Meditations during early spring.

Navigating a path amidst children's eco-anxiety

Heroes, ecology, and lessons to be learned.

My friend Ted

Brief reflections on a "new year"