Chris Silsbee, park manager at Bradbury Mountain State Park, said that the event travels around to different state parks every weekend.
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Rapt tour group: Bird-watchers gather on Bradbury Mountain for a day of education on birds of prey
‘Feathers Over Freeport: A Birdwatching Weekend’ lured visitors to the state park in Pownal, where up to 1,800 hawks might pass over the mountain at the height of the season.
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Auburn summer program aims to help new Mainers build relationship with the outdoors
Students have practiced outdoor survival skills, like navigation and building fires, in the summer program.
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Face Time: Andrew Sharp, Bradbury Mountain’s spring hawk watcher
Fresh out of graduate school with a master’s degree in ecology from Utah State University, Andrew Sharp was figuring out his next steps when he found a job as Bradbury Mountain’s official hawk watcher for the 2021 migration season this past spring. The Chesterfield, Virginia, native just wrapped up a three-month, six-days-a-week stint perched atop […]
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Maine state parks nearing 3 million visitors a year
Visits to the state’s 48 parks grew by 11 percent in 2018, with Sebabo Lake, Lily Bay and Bradbury Mountain leading the way.
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People You Know: Chris Silsbee takes over Bradbury Mountain State Park
POWNAL — At his last post, in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, Caribou native Chris Silsbee had a four-hour commute to work, left his family for nine days at a time to live in the woods and might see more deer than people on any given day. Two years ago, deciding his family was ready for […]
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12 Hours of Bradbury Mountain
300 riders raced for glory, fitness and fun: ‘People are more interested in this type of race because it’s more like a festival.’ Standing around a morning camp fire, Tony Ortega and Brandon Lawrence were wondering what to do. They had signed on to race the 12 Hours of Bradbury Mountain bike race as a […]