Pete SalmansohnAug 265 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 betw...
Pete SalmansohnJun 124 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 303 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 184 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 threaten...
Pete SalmansohnJan 244 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 televis...
Pete SalmansohnJan 133 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, anim...
Pete SalmansohnJan 22 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
