Dana Osgood from News Center Maine will provide a brief presentation featuring information from their series Maine’s Changing Climate. She will be joined on a panel discussing Maine Won’t Wait, the plan to help Maine address our changing climate. Join Molly and Maggie to learn more about the updated plan. (Maggie Kelly-Boyd and Molly Siegel).

Learn about PFAS in our aquatic environment from Tom Danielson from the Maine DEP.

Join Allyson Hill and Casandra Susemihl from the Oxford County Emergency Managment Agency to learn more about flooding in Western Maine and Hazard Mitigation planning. ARWC staff will provide information on how building more resilient infrastructure in recovering from floods can benefit both you and our aquatic enviroment.

Brook Trout, their habits and their habitat will be discussed in a presentation by the Merry Gallagher and Tyler Grant, both from Maine IFW.

As an important visual to help us with both fish habitat and flooding issues, Sarah Haggerty from Maine Audubon will be presenting and bringing a Stream Table that can help to realize the damage to infrastructure and the environment from severe storms and flooding. This will be a hands-on activity that we are sure you will remember.