Teachers, our volunteers can bring these local critters into your classroom!
We have an incredible collection of taxidermy mounts of local critters which are available for teaching purposes, including:
When not out visiting kids, most of these critters can be viewed at the
Bowdoinham Public Library.
We offer a wide range of environmental topics to teach your classes, including ecology, forestry, maps, and migration.
Saw Whet Owl
Coyote
Bobcat
Learn More about the Public Service Announcement from the West Bath Elementary School 3rd Grade
No Child Left Inside:“Get ’em Outside” is a five-minute video celebrating the value of environmental education.
Watch our calendar for our biannual Bay Days—a chance for regional 4th-graders to gather on the shores of Merrymeeting Bay for a fun day of outdoors, hands-on activities. Typical courses include fish printing, beach seining, tree walks, and foraging for wild edibles. Dozens of volunteers help us make this one of our most popular and long-standing events.
Spring: Chop Point School, Woolwich-mid-late May
Fall: Merrymeeting Bay Wildlife Management Area, Bowdoinham, late September
Native dwellings
Watershed modeling
Beach seining
Federal regulators and dam owners are about a year into the five-year process of relicensing the 50-year-old hydroelectric dam that spans the Androscoggin River between Brunswick and Topsham. Local environmentalists say it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to evaluate and redesign passageways that have failed to allow fish migration.
Bud Warren recounts James Madison Kendall’s unique tide mill beneath the Cathance River Bridge—an innovative wheel powering mills for decades.”
Mark Baker explores the hidden health and environmental hazards of LEDs—their blinding glare, misleading efficiency claims, and regulatory gaps.
Formed by the confluence of six rivers, Merrymeeting Bay drains almost 40% of Maine’s fresh water into the Gulf of Maine through Chop Point. The bay is a unique inland freshwater river delta and the largest staging ground for migratory waterfowl in the Northeast.
