Maine Seashore Nature Sites Guidebook Authors - Aug. 2015
Skidompha Library's Chats with Champions program guest presenters on Aug. 4, 2015 were Kyrill Schabert and Tony Oppersdorff. The two local men shared highlights from their new book, “Best Seashore Nature Sites--Midcoast Maine.”
“Best Seashore Nature Sites--Midcoast Maine.” is a saltwater focused nature guide exploring 32 public preserves from Freeport to Searsport, Maine. However, to offer a wide range of experiences in a diversity of ecosystems, the authors also included sites in Jefferson, Dresden and Searsmont.
This guidebook is an invitation to the curious traveler to explore midcoast Maine's unique coastal environment, to wonder at its many sites, and to experience the natural landscape. Maps, detailed descriptions and hundreds of color photographs bring alive on the printed pages these places of beauty. Also included are sidebar articles by the authors and contributing experts on an array of relevant natural history topics. Included among the pages of this book are the relatively unknown sites of the Pownalborough Courthouse Preserve along the Kennebec River, the La Verna Preserve in Bristol, and the Bonyun Preserve in Westport Island.
This volume is the authors’ companion guide to “Best Nature Sites of Midcoast Maine,” also published by Waterline Books in Jefferson, Maine. Whether a casual observer or a serious naturalist, these books can provide direction to anyone’s travels along the hundreds of miles of midcoast Maine's extraordinary coastline.
As a youngster, Kyrill Schabert cultivated an appreciation of natural history in the salt marshes and woods of the north shore of Long Island. Kyrill resides in Jefferson, Maine where he edits and publishes non-fiction under the imprint of Waterline Books. Tony Oppersdorff, a writer, photographer and naturalist, is a resident of Lincolnville, Maine.