Virtual Guided Nature Walks
We are very pleased to host Marnie and Ken Crowell’s newest natural history guide series, a digital introduction to the plants and animals found here on the island. Thanks to ecologist Ken Crowell and natural history writer Marnie Reed Crowell for creating this suite of PDFs, a local compendium of PDFs based on their years of nature walks. Read them online, download them to your computer, or download to your mobile device to take with you on the trail.
Meet the Crowells, authors of the VIRTUAL GUIDED NATURE WALKS series.
VIRTUAL GUIDED NATURE WALKS
SERIES WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY ECOLOGIST DR. KENNETH L. CROWELL AND HIS WIFE MARNIE REED CROWELL, NATURAL HISTORY WRITER.
Have you ever wished you had a naturalist along with you to point out various plants and animals as you walk a trail? Based on our more than fifty years of leading nature walks along these beautiful trails, we have written this suite of guides to our preserves and other areas of Deer Isle that are open to the public. There is also an Almanac listing plant and animal species you are apt to find at one time of year or another.
Read this suite of PDFs online; download them to your computer or to your mobile phone to take with you on the trail. (Connectivity on Deer Isle is still not all it could be…) Smartphones these days are so good at taking photographs that we urge you to collect your own series of photos. Of course there are apps to also help you identify what you see and hear. A closer look at Nature is an enriching experience.
May you find visiting our preserves enjoyable and refreshing. Your experience can only be enhanced by the knowledge that this land trust is a private organization comprised of folks just like you. We love our landscapes with all their natural wonders, and we love sharing them.
Welcome indeed,
Marnie and Ken
Marnie and Ken Crowell
VIRTUAL GUIDED NATURE WALKS:
- Introduction
- Barred Island Preserve
- Causeway Beach Preserve
- Church Land Preserve
- Crockett Cove Woods Preserve
- Lisa Tolman Wooten Preserve
- Pine Hill Preserve
- Scott's Landing Preserve
- Settlement Quarry Preserve
- Shore Acres Preserve
- Tennis Preserve
- Highlights (other areas)
- Species Almanac - An Island-wide description of when and where you are likely to find many species of plants and animals on Deer Isle.
- Nature Activities: Learning Our Ferns
- Nature Activities: Learning Our Lichens
- Nature Activities: Learning Our Mosses - At Crockett Cove Woods, Barred Island Preserve and Shore Acres these common in Maine mosses can be found without leaving the trail.
