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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 7h

Saturday! Ill be reading my lyric essay, Part 1 of the longer Bus Riders Guide to the Penobscot River, on theft of Indigenous land, Bangor's unhoused, and "real estate" markets.

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've had lots of standing, wondering, herons lately - but I want more.

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

on it! and you might enjoy this one, on loss, social memory, and the role of art in reslience, which I am now revisiting for this weekend's Sardinefest at the Penobscot Marine Museum. seagrant.umaine.edu/wp-content/u...

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This book hits close to home/work in so many ways, especially after presenting at the New England Environmental History Symposium. So much of my writing adheres to the prescriptions by @jasondovemark.bsky.social Feeling encouraged - but also, what now?

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The bigger news is WHY the State of Maine deleted from printed copies treaty obligations, which never ceased? Shameful acts for a state that claims to lead ("Dirigo")

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Took me a second to realize this wasnt the Emery Path in Acadia National Park.

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

finally! a #stunday worthy scene! Moosehead Lake, Wabanakik (Maine)

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

And we have a new all-time record warm *absolute* temperature for the oceans, according to ERA5 (which goes back to 1940): August 21st likely marked the warmest Sea Surface Temperatures have been for the entire Holocene period. Should be major news!

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

the oldest/first lake in the landscape now called Maine. Sargent Mountain Pond, Acadia National Park. #BlueSkyArtShow #water

black and white photo of clear sky, forested shoreline, and water rippled by the breeze

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

@carlzimmer.com advice for writers is all about choice, judgement, and decisions - all reasons why writing is a fundamentally human endeavor, not one that can be replaced by computers or algorithms.

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Jack El-Hai @jackelhai.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"Concern for the future of the #trees." Today's #history book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @coastcompanion.bsky.social! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"I could never vote for a man accused of rape—it’s not like I’m Susan Collins during a Supreme Court confirmation." Ouch. Its worth it for this (and the line about Cadillac Mountain)...

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

edit: "The Mi'kmaq Nation has accepted the return of 3,400 acres. The parcel increases tribal land holdings to 0.025 percent of their ancestral homeland."

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Don Boesch 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @donboesch.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Just like in the Gulf of Mexico, Washington D.C. has a big Dead Zone that is fueled by avarice and ignorance, with the algae just doing what they are supposed to do. robverchick.substack.com/p/the-reflec...

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The Reflecting Pool Is Green. Part of the Gulf Is Dying. Guess Which One Made the News.

Day 12: Reflecting Pool is still green.

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Even though most of those "pines" are actually spruce and fir.

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

My new book, Trees of Acadia: The Past, Present, and Future of Park Forests, is here! Book tour starts next week w/ a preview talk in Southwest Harbor.

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Ocean Hoptimism @oceanhoptimism.org · 09/06/2026

Pride is often celebrated as progress. But progress has a memory. The Great Forgetting, a new piece in @therevelator.org, examines what happens when civil rights history, environmental history, and the voices behind both are softened, narrowed, or erased. This Pride Month, memory matters.

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The Great Forgetting • The Revelator

How memory, civil rights, and environmental history are being quietly erased.

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Light from the rising sun reflecting off the high tide ocean onto spruce trees in Acadia National Park. #ForestFriday

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🌠🦉Beaky~💜🤍🩶🖤 @beakysbigtop.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

There is a bridge that leads into the wilderness at this picnic spot. Might cross it, and complete my transition into a fairy. 🧚🏻‍♀️🌳

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

#Tall spruce on the Schoodic Peninsula in Acadia National Park for this week's #BlueSkyArtShow

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Everyone who participates in online discourse would benefit from knowing that authors/journalists don’t control the titles or graphics of their pieces in newspapers and magazines.

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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Day 3 of a local #Indigenous community creating a dugout canoe, now carving details of traditional foods & medicines like fiddleheads & sassafras ~ mishoons were traditionally made like this by many Northeastern groups:

Nipmuc Indigenous community members carving details in a new dugout canoe

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Resistance Rangers @resistancerangers.altgov.info · 09/04/2026

Defunding America’s Best Idea. The proposed FY2027 budget includes a ~25% cut to the National Park Service, along with major reductions to other public land agencies.

Image of Jolly Ranger on black tree background. Text reads, “GUTTING America's Best Idea. The Trump admin is once again proposing massive budget cuts to the National Park Service for FY2027. We need your voice.”

Image of trees behind black background. Text reads, “This administration is spending ~$1 billion PER DAY on war. Meanwhile, all 433 national parks sites operate on just ~$9.5 million per day.
3-4 days of war spending equals 1 year of national parks. This isn't about affordability, it's about priorities.”

Image of trees behind black background. Text reads, “You -THE PUBLIC- value protecting public lands, wildlife, and cultural history.
But the FY2027 proposal includes a $736 million cut (down 25%) to the National Park
Service.”

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Great news but...Maybe dont use "roadmap" as a metaphor if we're trying to phase out (de-normalize) fossil fuels (and their infrastructure).

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Every single one of these videos should be shot in a car or at the airport on the way back to Washington, not in a leafy backyard. Where’s the urgency?

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 06/04/2026

"Spring bloom has been mostly early across the country, with central states seeing conditions for bloom 2-5 weeks early than a long-term average (1991-2020). Denver, CO is 35 days early, and Nashville, TN is 17 days early." Information from @usa-npn.bsky.social: www.usanpn.org/data/maps/sp...

Map of the contiguous United States showing the spring bloom index anomaly as of April 5, 2026 from the USA National Phenology Network. Many areas are earlier than normal.

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

finally officially powered by the sun! (and heated by the forest in the background.)

an array of ten solar panels held up by a wooden structure with trees in the background.

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Its a good day to join the off-grid solar system.

loose electrical wires surrounding a gray breaker box and a bright yellow box mounted to a wall

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Someone beat me to first tracks. ********* A snowy morning at Sand Beach in Acadia National Park for this week's #BlueskyArtShow #horizontal theme.

tiny animal tracks zigzag across a snow covered beach, a calm silvery sea darkening toward the horizon where it meets a cloud filled sky

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/03/2026

I just got an email pushing a new book, and ... I'm not going to call out the book itself, cause I don't wanna ruin anyone's day, but ... I am going to subtweet it. It's yet another book on how the problem with climate change is ... the way we talk about it! "Framing"! "Messaging"!

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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Last week, an aerial survey team spotted endangered blue whales two days in a row in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument This is the same area the trump admin is now slashing protections for “Seeing blue #whales outside of their Canadian feeding grounds is rare," they said

A blue whale seen by the New England Aquarium’s aerial survey team over Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument on Feb. 27, 2026. (CREDIT: New England Aquarium

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

after his alcoholic father split, my paternal grandfather left high school to work in a cigar factory then the mailroom of the @nytimes.com and retired as head of classified advertising 50 years later.

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I wrote a poem about that time I was almost a bicentennial baby and the circus came to town. Thanks to @zoeticpress.bsky.social for publishing it, & much-needed encouragement.

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

A very thorough article that mentions how long it takes to create and install signage - usually a multiyear process of intention and collaboration and layers of review.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Recognizing that people have unmet needs/explore ostensibly convenient technology that is being heavily marketed at them is one thing -- calling it "useful" plays into the narrative of not just Big Tech but also the EA money behind the article at the top of this thread. >>

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Goo morning, monsters. The mist holds out its invitation back to the water. Come home. Come be held. Follow through the beading moisture to the shore and let it direct a new form, wriggling and gleaming, propelled by appendages that keep a body distant from every terrestrial worry.

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Ms. Kitty ☀️💙🕊️ @katmom888.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

A thriving 800 yr. old olive tree in Valldemossa, Mallorca, Spain.🇪🇸 The tree of life, an ancient symbol of Endurance Longevity Survival Nourishment Healing Renewal Protection Resilience Hope💙🕊️ #BlueSkyArtShow #Wood #Nature #Writing #OliveTree #Photography #Spain #Mallocra #Spain #TreeofLife

View of a large 800 yr old olive tree in Valldemossa, Mallorca, a cornerstone of the UNESCO-listed Tramuntana mountain landscape, with many trees being over 1,000 years old. Grown on historic drystone terraces, these ancient, gnarled trees produce high-quality organic oil. Known as the tree of life. ❤️🇪🇸

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

TREES OF ACADIA comes out this spring and can be pre-ordered. Book tour planning underway - stops in Bar Harbor, Southwest Harbor, Winter Harbor, Northeast Harbor..and a harbor near you?

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Catherine Schmitt @coastcompanion.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I should really call my parents. Haven't heard from them in a while...

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