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Picture it: your electric flying car drops you at the Hulls Cove Transit Center and parks itself underground; a silent, zero-emission Island Explorer train carries you around a traffic-free Park Loop Road; and when you get lost on a hike, a hologram of Park Ranger George B. Dorr appears to lead you to safety. Kevin Schneider, superintendent of Acadia National Park and Saint Croix Island International Historic Site, admits this future is a little outlandish. But he thinks about Acadia's future a lot.
Change is certain
In a hundred years Acadia will probably look very different, just as it has changed over the last hundred. Some change will help: automating tasks such as reservations and fee collection frees staff to serve visitors. Some worries him — climate change, "nature-deficit disorder" among young people, and a very challenging budget.
What reassures him on hard days is that the lands now called Acadia have always been here, and, thanks to a community of stewards, will still be here in a hundred years.
What carries the park forward
The job, as he sees it, is to make sure future generations have the tools and resources to carry on the National Park Service's work — with partners such as Friends of Acadia:
| Program | What it does for the future |
|---|---|
| Schoodic Education Adventure | brings young people who might never have come to Acadia to experience it |
| Volunteer programs | let anyone give back and deepen their connection to the park |
| Schoodic Institute partnership | produces the science the park needs for future challenges, and a place for immersive learning |
| Seasonal workforce housing (Friends of Acadia) | gives the next generation of park leaders a way to get a foot in the door |
A superintendent's job, he reminds himself, is to think about tomorrow rather than today — though realistically 5 to 20 years out. Within that frame, he looks forward to at least one piece of the fantasy: zero-emission electric Island Explorer buses running through a new transit center at Hulls Cove.
Sources
Based on "Superintendent's View: What will Acadia look like in 100 years?" by Kevin Schneider, Superintendent of Acadia National Park, first published in Acadia Magazine (Friends of Acadia), October 2024, and posted by the National Park Service; a work of the United States government in the public domain.
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