Why are many of our loons abandoning their second egg? Your Belgrade Lakes Association Loon Preservation Project’s volunteers have collected ten abandoned loon eggs so far this year, which is very unsettling, and the breeding season is not over. More…

I heard an old phrase this past week, which I haven’t heard since I was a teenager and as I recall, it was a very common reply from my Mom for just about everything! “That’s water over the dam, honey!!!” So that got me laughing as now I am up to my ears in this dam business!! More…

Climate change is impacting water quality in the Belgrade Lakes watershed. That underscores the need to stabilize water quality in the region’s streams and lakes. One imminently doable action shorefront property owners can take is to make their properties “LakeSmart.” More…

Both Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In by Phuc Tran and Beneficence: A Novel by Meredith Hall are Portland area stories. Beneficence is about a loving family of five living ideally on a farm west of Portland. The memoir Sigh, Gone is by a twenty year Latin teacher who fled Vietnam along with his extended family. More…

Throughout the 1900s the family bought or built a summer, lakeside retreat in the Belgrade Lakes. After many years, the dynamics have changed. Several generations of children are grown with kids of their own, and they all want to spend time at the family lakehouse…together! While it sits on a beautiful plot on the shore of the lake, it’s a camp with a funky floor plan and limited space. Now what? More…

The third Saturday in July is the annual loon count in Maine, coordinated by Maine Audubon. This year’s count took place on July 16. It was the 39^th annual count in this important ongoing citizen-science project dedicated to better understanding one of Maine’s most iconic birds. More…