Read about the adventures of KELT’s Bowdoin Fellow, Emma Barker, as she tells the tale of red-backed salamanders! A main project for her this summer, Emma shares interesting facts about these tiny amphibians and the launch of KELT’s community science effort to understand their populations on five land trust preserves.
Read MoreRead about the adventures of KELT’s Bowdoin Fellow, Emma Barker, as she explores the mysteries and wild landscape of Yankee Bog.
Read MoreRead about the adventures of KELT’s Bowdoin Fellow, Emma Barker, during her time interning with a land trust.
Read MoreLearn about the threats to coastal water supply and quality as well as how other communities are assessing and adapting!
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We are incredibly excited to announce our new Executive Director, Becky Kolak! Becky has been our Acting Executive Director since June of 2021 and has dedicated over a decade of tireless work to KELT.
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KELT's Project Manager, Ruth Indrick, is part of the leadership team for the Southern Midcoast Social Resilience Project. This project was designed to promote new connections and partnerships between emergency management, conservation, social service, and municipal sectors in the towns of Arrowsic, Bath, Brunswick, Georgetown, Harpswell, Phippsburg, West Bath, and Woolwich with the goal of increasing each municipality's resilience to storm events and other natural disasters.
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As Phippsburg residents drive by their elementary school in the evening, curiosity is building around a classroom glowing with LED lights. The lights are part of a new addition to the school; a self-watering, self-fertilizing hydroponic planter that began supplying the cafeteria with fresh greens at the beginning of November.
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We are lucky in Midcoast Maine to enjoy the beauty and utility of the coastal salt marshes. Now more than ever, they serve a vital purpose for our future. With climate change on our doorstep, salt marshes mitigate coastal flooding and absorb and hold carbon in the soil and sediment rather than releasing it in the form of CO2 into the atmosphere.
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