Nature Tour of Merrymeeting Bay – Course Website

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DATE SITE SUBTOPIC
9/16 1. Merrymeeting Bay Wildlife Management Area – Wildes Road, Bowdoinham Introductions and orientation
Where and What is Merrymeeting Bay?
Activity: Getting oriented
Mudflats & wild rice
Food webs
Taking a nature walk
9/23 Merrymeeting Fields – Woolrich – KELT Habitats, communities, habitat transitions
Ferns
Wolf trees, homesteads
9/30 Butler Head – Bath – City of Bath Trees,
Tree communities
Riparian zones
10/7 Bay Bridge Park – Brunswick Bay Bridge
Birds
European settlement to today
10/14 Dresden Falls Archaic Preserve Early Peoples and the Bay
Fish
10/21 Dresden Falls Archaic Preserve, Dresden Early Peoples and the Bay
Fish
  Threats to the Bay – What Can I Do?  

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