Calendar of Events

Get off the beaten path, leave the trails behind, and see the Penjajawoc Marsh as you can see it only in winter. Take advantage of the ice and join us on a snowshoe walk. Look for tracks and critters. Dress warmly and bring your own snowshoes or cross-country skis.

Meet at the BLT kiosk at the end of Fox Hollow Lane. To get there, go north on Essex St approximately 3 miles from the intersection with Stillwater Ave, passing Chestnut Trail and taking your next right onto Fox Hollow Lane. Stay on Fox Hollow Lane until you reach the cul-de-sac parking area at the end.

Join us in Northeast Penjajawoc Preserve on the first day of Spring! Details TBA.

Walden-Parke Preserve. Details TBA.

Join us for our last outing before the snow arrives! The seeds and winter weeds we see now will be the plants we see next spring. With help from the BLT's Bill Glanz and Jerry Longcore, you can learn to identify them. We'll provide magnifying loops, and recommend you wear boots and warm clothing.

Meet at the BLT kiosk at the end of Fox Hollow Lane. To get there, go north on Essex St approximately 3 miles from the intersection with Stillwater Ave, passing Chestnut Trail and taking your next right onto Fox Hollow Lane. Stay on Fox Hollow Lane until you reach the cul-de-sac parking area at the end.

Join us for a moonlit walk on the trails in Walden-Parke Preserve. The moon will be high and 3/4 full as we take in the sounds of the woods at night. Bring boots, warm layers, a flashlight or headlamp, and a walking stick (if you like). The Blue Trail is broad and level, and the surrounding trees are relatively young, so once our eyes adjust we may be able to walk without artificial light.

Foul weather would force us to cancel or postpone. If we need to do so, we'll update this page on Saturday morning.

Meet at the BLT kiosk at the end of Tamarack Trail. To get there, go north on Essex St about 4 miles from the intersection with Stillwater Ave, passing Church Rd on your left. Take your next right onto Walden Parke Way at the entrance of the Edgewood Subdivision. Turn right onto Tamarack Trail and park at the end of the road where you will see a BLT kiosk.

Please join us for our 8th Annual Meeting. Our guest speaker is Lisa St. Hilaire of the Maine Natural Areas Program.

Topic: Invasive Species -- What should we do? Is Bangor being invaded? What about those evil foreign bugs? Are plants "from away" harmful and if so, why? With climate change, won't all plants be "from away" in another fifty years? Do the plants in our backyard make a difference?

WBRC Conference Room, 44 Central Street, Bangor, ME 04401

Did you know that Bangor has five streams that are listed as impaired under the Federal Clean Water Act standards? And that Bangor will probably spend millions of dollars to bring them back to health? Have you wondered how to tell if a stream is healthy? Or what we need to do to take care of our streams?

Mark Whiting from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection will give a workshop on Urban Stream Health. Mark will show us aquatic bugs -- macroinvertebrates -- that live in healthy streams and demonstrate the other methods that DEP uses to measure stream health. This will take about an hour and a half. Anyone who is interested can then accompany Mark to a comparison site at one of the impaired streams -- Penjajawoc -- where it flows through Evergreen Woods, and see what can be found there. There's a whole new world of urban wildlife to be discovered!

We'll meet at the Kenduskeag Park on Valley Ave. Coming from the south (and going upstream) it's the second parking lot past the I-95 bridge.

Join us for our 3rd Annual Frogs, Logs, & Bogs Road Ride -- a bike ride and celebration at the Bangor Waterfront. See the Road Ride page for more information.

Join BLT and members of the Penobscot Valley Stargazers for a stargazing event at West Penjajawoc Grasslands. The program will include identificiation of major constellations and a discussion of the importance of dark skies for wildlife habitat.
Meet at the kiosk at the end of Fox Hollow Lane.

Learn about beavers with Bangor Land Trust's Jerry Longcore. Beavers are very active in Walden-Parke Preserve and have been a focus of stewardship activities. We will look at the lodge, dam, drag trails, food cache, and species of trees cut down.
Meet at the Walden-Parke Preserve kiosk at the end of Tararack Trail. Wear a long-sleaved shirt, bring bug dope, boots, binoculars, camera, etc.

Learn all about our urban streams with biologist Mark Whiting, from theMaine Department of Environmental Protection. What little animals livein our streams? How does the DEP measure stream quality? Why should wecare? What can we do to take care of our streams? What has been done toimprove water quality in the Kenduskeag?
Wear boots or wading shoes if you want. Meet at the most downstreamparking lot on Valley Ave. (to the right as soon as you turn off Harlowif you're coming from downtown).

Governor Baldacci will help us celebrate the 25th Anniversary and Re-Dedication of Saxl Park, and Bangor Trails will announce progress on the first link in our planned city-wide trail system.
Saxl Park on Mt. Hope Ave.

Join BLT and Fields Pond Audubon as we host bird walks on three of BLT's properties.

Thursday, May 21st at Northeast Penjajawoc Preserve with Bob Milardo and Elizabeth Payne. Look for forest birds on migration!
From Stillwater Ave near Hogan Rd, go north on Kittredge Rd to kiosk.

Saturday, May 23rd at Walden-Parke Preserve with Bill Glanz. Look for forest and wetland birds!
From Essex Street and Stillwater Ave, go north on Essex St approximately four miles. Turn right on Walden Parke Way, and then turn right on Tamarack Trail. Go to the end and meet at the kiosk.
Wear boots!

Tuesday, May 26th at West Penjajawoc Preserve with Lucy Quimby. The best place around for bobolinks!
From Essex St and Stillwater Ave, go north on Essex St approximately three miles. Turn right on Fox Hollow Lane and park at the cul-de-sac. Meet at the kiosk.

Participate in a nationwide survey to monitor woodcock populations. Jerry Longcore will lead the group.
From Essex Street and Stillwater Ave, go north on Essex St approximately four miles. Turn right on Walden Parke Way, and then turnright on Tamarack Trail. Go to the end and meet at the kiosk.
Wear boots and bring a flashlight.