About 170 campers at the YMCA Camp du Nord near Ely are stranded with their vehicles behind a washed out road following heavy rains in the area, and officials are working on getting them out of there. “Everyone’s doing really well,” Michel Tigan, vice president of adventure and camp operations for YMCA of the North, […]
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Maine’s piping plovers are adapting to washed-out beaches after winter storms
Jun. 17—Laura Minich Zitske was overwhelmed when she first walked along the Maine beaches that had been pummeled by winter storms to assess them before the annual return of the piping plovers. She found it hard to imagine how the small, endangered birds would find places to nest, above the waterline, on beaches that had […]