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From the Ground Up: Conservation in New England

From the Ground Up: Conservation in New England

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Beginning with Habitat: Advancing Conservation in Maine’s Most Important Landscapes - Justin Schlawin

An article written and read by Justin Schlawin. Justin Schlawin coordinates and directs Beginning with Habitat, a program of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Justin supervises staff; promotes collaboration with steering committee members and partners; advances landscape-scale initiatives; and facilitates the delivery of technical assistance on habitat conservation and management to municipalities, conservation partners, and private landowners. Justin lives with his family in Bowdoinham, Maine. Read the full article here. Discover additional content in the Summer 2026 Issue of From the Ground Up.

Bookshelf: Numinosity: A New England Forester’s Search for the Ineffable by Robert T. Perschel - Liz Thompson

A book recommendation read by Liz Thompson. Liz Thompson, Managing Editor of From the Ground Up, is an ecologist from Vermont who has explored, photographed, written about, and helped conserve many wild places. She serves on the board of Northeast Wilderness Trust. Read the book recommendation and discover additional content in the Summer 2026 Issue of From the Ground Up.

Another Epistle to Be Left in the Earth - Robert T. Perschel

A poem written and read by Robert T. Perschel Robert (Bob) Perschel joined the New England Forestry Foundation in April 2012 and retired in 2024. In his 40 years as an environmental professional, he has worked on forestry, large landscape conservation, and wilderness issues. Bob worked for the forest industry before establishing his own forestry consulting business and founding the Land Ethic Institute. He then worked in leadership positions for The Wilderness Society and Forest Stewards Guild. Bob has a master’s degree in forestry from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a psychology degree from Yale College. Read the short poem here and discover additional content in the Summer 2026 Issue of From the Ground Up.

A Climb to the Sky: Discovering Biodiversity on a Maine Mountain - Christopher Reidy

An article written and read by Christopher Reidy. Christopher Reidy is a Forest Ecologist with the Maine Natural Areas Program (MNAP). He assists with the collection of botanical and ecological information to help document the occurrence and condition of rare plant populations and natural communities with a focus in northern Maine. He works closely with the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands and is responsible for coordinating the collection and management of monitoring data on state-owned Ecological Reserves to evaluate their condition and long-term trends in forest composition and structure. Before joining MNAP, he spent more than 29 years as a biologist with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, serving in Maine, Oregon, Michigan, New York, Indiana, and Alaska. See the photos and read the full article here. Discover additional content in the Summer 2026 Issue of From the Ground Up.

Cultivating Biodiversity: A Soil Profile of a New England Farm - Joshua T. Anderson

A feature article written and read by Joshua T. Anderson. Joshua T. Anderson is a writer from rural North Dakota committed to foodways and flyways. His featured article on the intersection of soil health and human health appears in the fall issue of Earth Island Journal, and his creative nonfiction essay on the dominance of the sugar industry in North Dakota’s Red River Valley appears in Open Space (the online journal of North American Review). Josh is the co-founder of the Flyway Institute, which brings artists to rural communities in support of conservation efforts throughout North America’s migratory flyways. His first narrative nonfiction book, Soil Horizons, will be published in 2027 by Plainspoken Books. Read the full article and discover additional content in the Summer 2026 Issue of From the Ground Up.

The Last of the Least and the Best of the Rest: An Interview with Larry Master

An interview with Larry Master, conducted and edited by Liz Thompson. Larry Master is a conservation biologist, a zoologist, and, in his retirement, a conservation photographer. He has been photographing wildlife and natural history subjects for more than 70 years. After doctoral and postdoctoral studies at the University of Michigan, Larry spent 20 years with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and six years with NatureServe, most of that time as their Lead Zoologist. Read more about Larry and his work at his artist profile. Larry resides in Keene, New York, and West Cornwall, Connecticut. Read the full interview transcript here. Discover additional content in the Summer 2026 Issue of From the Ground Up.

On the Road with Real Naturalists - Brian Donahue

An article written and read by Brian Donahue. Brian Donahue is Professor Emeritus of American Environmental Studies at Brandeis University, and a farm and forest policy consultant. He co-founded and for 12 years directed Land’s Sake, a nonprofit community farm in Weston, Massachusetts, and now co-owns and manages a farm in western Massachusetts. He sits on the boards of the Massachusetts Woodland Institute, the Friends of Spannocchia, and Franklin Land Trust. Brian is author of Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town (1999), The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord (2004), and Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests (2024). He is co-author of Wildlands, Woodlands, Farmlands & Communities (2017) and A New England Food Vision (2014). See the photos and read the full article here. Discover additional content in the Summer 2026 Issue of From the Ground Up.

The Finest Kind: Remembering Lobsterwoman Jean Symonds - Paul Breeden

An article written and read by Paul Breeden. Paul Breeden decided as a little boy to someday work for National Geographic. His first published artwork was in National Geographic magazine. From there he went on to illustrate for various other national and international magazines, books, and a U.S. postage stamp. His work was featured at the National Gallery of Art, American Botanical Artists, Brandywine Museum, Geosphere, International Earth Summit, The White House, and 100 Years of Illustration. Having worked in a variety of media, including calligraphy and photography, Paul now primarily paints acrylic Maine landscapes, mountains, and the working waterfront. For fun he paints mind-boggling trompe l’oeil watercolors. See the photos and read the full article here. Discover additional content in the Spring 2026 Issue of From the Ground Up.

Bookshelf: Tending Your Forest: A Guide to Ecological Forest Stewardship in the Eastern and Central United States by Paul Catanzaro and Anthony D’Amato - Liz Thompson

A book recommendation read by Liz Thompson. Liz Thompson, Managing Editor of From the Ground Up, is an ecologist from Vermont who has explored, photographed, written about, and helped conserve many wild places. She serves on the board of Northeast Wilderness Trust. Read the book recommendation and discover additional content in the Spring 2026 Issue of From the Ground Up.

Visit to Harpswell - Scudder Parker

An poem written and read by Scudder Parker. Scudder Parker’s first volume of poetry, Safe as Lightning, released in June 2020 by Rootstock Publishing, was awarded the Best Poetry Book of 2020 by the Independent Publishers of New England (IPNE). Scudder’s poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals including Sun Magazine, Crosswinds, The Lascaux Review, Sky Island Journal, Vermont Life, Northern Woodlands, and Twyckenham. “The Poem of the World” was selected as a finalist in the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. For Scudder, poetry is the search for truthfulness, not homage to conclusion. It is exploration—fit of bone in socket, bees at riot in oregano blossoms, ache of old injustice summoning an opened heart, the strange joy of longing, laughter at long-defended foolishness. Family, farming, failing, finding. Foraging for the innocent sacred, patient in our midst. Scudder’s had numerous careers—preacher, organizer, gardener, politician, energy consultant, poet—and is still learning from each of them. His new volume, The Poem of the World, published by Kelsay Books, is now available in bookstores and online. You can follow Scudder’s work at Substack. Read the poem and discover additional content in the Spring 2026 Issue of From the Ground Up.

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