Pete SalmansohnJun 15, 20213 minECHOES 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...
Pete SalmansohnMay 5, 20215 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...
Pete SalmansohnJan 6, 20218 minFarmer 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...
Pete SalmansohnAug 26, 20205 minReporting From Puffin-Land in Mid-Coast MaineWhen 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...
Pete SalmansohnJun 12, 20204 minHope 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...
Pete SalmansohnMar 30, 20203 minMeditations 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...
Pete SalmansohnFeb 18, 20204 minNavigating 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...
Pete SalmansohnJan 24, 20204 minHeroes, 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...
Pete SalmansohnJan 13, 20203 minMy 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,...
Pete SalmansohnJan 2, 20202 minBrief 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