Nature Tour of Merrymeeting Bay – Course Website
Instructor
Terry Porter
terry.porter.me@gmail.com
Co-host
Jim Marshall
jbm.inbox@gmail.com
Class Topics
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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? |