COMMUNITY RESOURCES

Community Based Conservation: Maine Vernal Pools
Web site providing information to towns and citizens on the Maine Vernal Pools Project. Includes videos, publications, resources, reference materials, data forms and more.

Sustaining Maine's Brown Ash Resources
Web site providing information on an SSI research project that seeks to study and facilitate the ways that Wabanaki basket-makers, tribes, state and federal foresters, university researchers, landowners and others come together to prevent, detect, and respond to the threat of the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) – a potentially devastating exotic Asian beetle that attacks and kills all three Ash tree species in Maine.

Learning for Sustainability Web Site
Efforts towards sustainability in any field are built on processes for communicating, learning, and sharing knowledge, engaging people in their multiple roles as individuals, and as members of communities and organizations. This portal is designed for those wanting to improve collaboration within a range of governance initiatives. It is aimed at supporting adaptation and resilience within a decision-making environment characterised by change, complexity and uncertainty.

Acadia Learning Web Site
This program takes research issues and topics of interest to National Parks out to teachers and schools across Maine, engaging students in useful citizen science research while providing them with enriched science education. The initiative is made of a number of interconnected projects that focus on different scientific and educational research problems.