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Preserving Acadia National Park For Future Generations

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By NPT Staff - June 20th, 2017

Summer months are the perfect time to explore Acadia National Park’s “wild side” and get to know some of the bird species that call the park home/Friends of Acadia

Is there any doubt that summer is approaching for Acadia National Park? Peregrine falcons are perched in the cliffs, stars are sparkling overhead, and birds are flitting through the park’s forests.

Preserving and protecting the natural side of the park is a key challenge for us all, and Friends of Acadia is actively working with the National Park Service to manage a “wild Acadia” in the 21st century.

Thanks to help from Friends of Acadia, the park is ahead of the curve and on the way to implementing a new approach to stewarding resources that is in sync with Director’s Order 100.

Signed by former National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis late last year, that order directed the Park Service “to manage … resources in a context of continuous change that we do not fully understand, in order to:

  • Preserve and restore ecological, historical, and cultural integrity;
  • Contribute as an ecological and cultural core of national and international networks of protected lands, waters, and resources; and
  • Provide visitors and program participants with opportunities for transformative experiences that educate and inspire.”

Friends of Acadia and the staff at Acadia National Park three years ago launched their Wild Acadia program. You can learn more about how this initiative is playing out on the landscape of Acadia by reading the Spring issue of Friends of Acadia Journal.

While you can read this article online, by donating to Friends of Acadia, the group will deliver three journals a year to your mailbox, and your donation will help underwrite programs such as Wild Acadia.

If you’re planning to visit the park this summer, be sure to watch for the peregrine falcons at Jordan Cliffs, the Valley Cove, and the Precipice. If you visit in early June, sign up for some of the programs offered during the Acadia Birding Festival. Scheduled for June 1-4, this festival is a celebration of the “ecological wonders of the birds of the Gulf of Maine.”

The wide variety of programs offers chances to spot Atlantic puffins and Arctic terns, catch glimpses of Blackburnian and black-throated blue warblers, and improve your photographic skills for “shooting” birds.

And if you’re planning a late summer visit to Acadia, put the 8th annual Acadia Night Sky Festival on your calendar. It’s scheduled for September 21-24.

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