Beyond the Shelves Archive

Preparing for Your Visit

December 6, 2023

Before you take to the trail, click here to download your printable copy of the Pocket Guide to Maine Animal Tracks. For additional insights take . . . read more »

Books Before or After Your Visit

December 6, 2023

The new Witherle hike can be enhanced by reading some books to help answer your questions or fuel your curiosity about what you observed or . . . read more »

BHHT’s Hatch Cove, Castine

September 7, 2023

About The Hatch Cove Preserve is on both sides of Route 166 as it crosses the Neck into Castine.  It is a relatively easy hike, . . . read more »

Preparing for Your Visit

September 7, 2023

Before you take to the trail, click here to download your printable copy of the Pocket Guide to Maine Animal Tracks. For additional insights take . . . read more »

Books and Tools

September 7, 2023

Books can enhance your hiking experience whether it is a field guide or a story told in the wilderness or a picture book about the . . . read more »

Hundred Acre Wood Trail, Brooklin

April 5, 2023

  About Named after the famed woodlands that are home to the Winnie-the-Pooh characters in the Hundred Acre Wood in Sussex, England, this property hosts . . . read more »

Create Some Big Night Creatures!

April 5, 2023

After you have hiked and read about some of the vernal pool creatures, why not try to create some of your own.  Perhaps you can . . . read more »

Spring is for Books on Vernal Pools and their Inhabitants! 

April 5, 2023

When you go out to the Hundred Acre Woods you might want to borrow a guide book to help you identify the amphibians you could . . . read more »

Kingdom Woods Conservation Area, Blue Hill

March 1, 2023

  About Kingdom Woods Conservation Area, also known as KWCA for short, is a beautiful 800 acre parcel with three miles of trails with a . . . read more »

Animal Tracking Flipbook

March 1, 2023

Do you notice animal tracks in your backyard? When you go on a hike do you wonder what animals made those tracks?  Well,It is not . . . read more »