Acadia National Park

Large cedar-frame tripod waysides are telling visitors a story about innovative management strategies underway at two prominent destinations in Acadia – the summit of Cadillac Mountain and Great Meadow wetland. This web-based product is intended to make those displays more accessible for people who

Krummholz, 145 species including the rare alpine blueberry, and footsteps that can kill them — the four things the new summit panels say, and the experiments behind them.

Paths and roads across Acadia's Great Meadow block its streams and flood the trails. Eighteen new culverts on Hemlock Road and a reconnected loop to Bar Harbor are meant to fix both.

Researchers are repeating surveys of purple sandpipers, migratory shorebirds that spend their winters along the coast of Maine. The species has been in decline in recent decades and Acadia's protected shorelines continue to provide important habitat.

Superintendent Kevin Schneider writes a column that's published three times each year in Acadia Magazine (Friends of Acadia).

From the sound of a spring peeper’s chirping to a glimpse of a brilliantly colored red eft, amphibians are an irreplaceable part of experiencing the northern forest. At least 11 species of amphibians live in Acadia, where they play a role in food webs, nutrient cycling, and other ecosystem processes