For the past four weeks, youth ages 4-12 came to the Lubec Community Outreach Center for two-hours of weekly outdoor exploration with Downeast Coastal Conservancy. Each week, DCC’s Outreach Director Cathy Lookabaugh took the young explorers down the Mowry Beach...

On a warm summer morning, two 5th grade cohorts traveled to Machias River Preserve to conclude their yearlong Outdoor Ed program with DCC’s Outreach Director Cathy Lookabaugh.

On June 11, our valiant volunteers hiked through the Machias River Preserve to the historic Meadows Farm at the top of the Homestead Trail.

On two early spring mornings this May, 19 Alexander Elementary School students hopped on their bus to visit two different Downeast Coastal Conservancy’s preserves in Machias for field trip adventures focused on outdoor exploration.

We are incredibly grateful to four volunteers from Machias Savings Bank who came to help us brush out a new trail, the Munson Pitch Trail, at the Machias River Preserve earlier this month.

On a beautiful warm Spring Morning, 34 Fort O’Brien Elementary School students grades Pre-K to 4th took a trip down the road to Middle River Park to read Downeast Coastal Conservancy’s story of the month: “The Secret Pool” by Kimberly Ridley on DCC’s new Story Trail.

Do you want to take part in a citizen science project to save amphibian lives while collecting important data? Join the Maine Big Night—Amphibian Migration Monitoring (MBN) Project this April!

This New Nature Program for Downeast Families allows you to check out a backpack full of outdoor exploration gear!

A splendid diversity of mosses and lichens carpet and encrust the forest floor across the 145-acre Ingersoll Point Preserve.