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From Rare Visitors to Regular Sightings, The Bears in Acadia National Park. Trash, Trail Cameras, and DNA: Inside the Effort to Count Acadia’s Bears.
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From Rare Visitors to Regular Sightings, The Bears in Acadia National Park.

Trash, Trail Cameras, and DNA: Inside the Effort to Count Acadia’s Bears. Apr 18, 2026 by Sabrina Martin/BDN Acadia National Park has drawn visitors for more than 100 years who come to enjoy the rocky shorelines and cool summer breezes. Local residents have mostly grown to accept the presence of millions of tourists who descend on MDI each summer and fall, but in the past couple … Continue reading From Rare Visitors to Regular Sightings, The Bears in Acadia National Park.

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Browntail Moths Likely to Return to MDI This Spring. Here’s What Residents Should Know. More Than 100 Years Ago, A Harvard Experiment Helped Spread the Browntail Moth Across New England.
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Browntail Moths Likely to Return to MDI This Spring. Here’s What Residents Should Know.

More Than 100 Years Ago, A Harvard Experiment Helped Spread the Browntail Moth Across New England. Carrie Jones Mar 05, 2026 MOUNT DESERT ISLAND REGION—The invasion began with a Harvard professor, a man who was once deemed impractical by the New York Times. The professor had brought a creature to the United States for study. It was on roses from Holland. The creature had eggs: a … Continue reading Browntail Moths Likely to Return to MDI This Spring. Here’s What Residents Should Know.

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TikTok Is Changing How People Visit Acadia National Park

Sep 20, 2025 by Bill Trotter/Bangor Daily News ACADIA NATIONAL PARK—Once upon a time, visitors may have relied on printed travel guides from Frommer’s and Fodor’s to plan their trips to Acadia National Park. But that wasn’t the case when Baltimore resident Caitlin Rosing and her friend Amy Lauenstein recently planned a week of travel to Maine’s coast. A video going around social media about Cabbage … Continue reading TikTok Is Changing How People Visit Acadia National Park

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Park Officials Urge Bear Awareness as Sightings Rise on MDI
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Town Hill’s Bear May Be Harvested

Shaun Farrar Sep 17, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Havana. BAR HARBOR—The bear that was first accused of killing two goats and some rabbits in May is now being accused of killing baby rabbits at the same property and not eating them. This behavior that is being attributed to one bear, but there have been sightings of multiple bears at one time on Mount … Continue reading Town Hill’s Bear May Be Harvested

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Acadia Visitor Center in Trenton Opens After Months of Delays
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Acadia Visitor Center in Trenton Opens After Months of Delays

Sep 03, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Ironbound Restaurant – Inn – Gatherings. by Bill Trotter/Bangor Daily News TRENTON—After months of delays, the state’s new Acadia Gateway Center in Trenton has opened. The $27 million visitors center, which was funded through the Maine Department of Transportation, was expected to open earlier this summer, but construction-related delays resulted in it remaining closed through July … Continue reading Acadia Visitor Center in Trenton Opens After Months of Delays

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Acadia National Park Sets All-time Record for Monthly Visits best local mount desert island news the bar harbor story
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Acadia National Park Sets All-time Record for Monthly Visits

Aug 14, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Swan Agency Real Estate. by Bill Trotter/Bangor Daily News ACADIA NATIONAL PARK—Though fewer international visitors are coming to Maine and the numbers of cruise ship passengers in Bar Harbor have dropped off sharply this summer, Acadia National Park had its busiest month ever in July. The reason, according to tourism industry officials, could be the dry weather Maine had last … Continue reading Acadia National Park Sets All-time Record for Monthly Visits

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Both Eagles That Fell in Bar Harbor Wednesday Have Died

Carrie Jones Aug 09, 2025 BAR HARBOR—Both bald eagles that fell to the Bar Harbor Road after a mid-air fight Wednesday have died, Acadia Wildlife Center, a local non-profit wildlife rehabilitation clinic and nature center, reported Saturday morning. “Two bald eagles hit the pavement on the Bar Harbor Road after a fight with talons clamped together, spinning downwards,” the center shared. “These kind of fights can … Continue reading Both Eagles That Fell in Bar Harbor Wednesday Have Died

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Should Mainers Be Concerned by Shark Sightings?
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Should Mainers Be Concerned by Shark Sightings?

Aug 03, 2025 By Julia Tilton of the Maine Monitor MAINE—John Chisholm has been interested in sharks as long as he can remember. Growing up in Plymouth, Mass. in the 1970s, he spent a lot of time searching for great whites on his dad’s commercial fishing boat. An adjunct scientist at the New England Aquarium’s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life, Chisholm wasn’t the first in his … Continue reading Should Mainers Be Concerned by Shark Sightings?

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Park Officials Urge Bear Awareness as Sightings Rise on MDI
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Park Officials Urge Bear Awareness as Sightings Rise on MDI

Carrie Jones Jul 22, 2025 The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The 1932 Criterion Theatre. ACADIA NATIONAL PARK—Acadia National Park representatives spoke to the League of Towns, July 22, about how and if they should manage the black bear population on Mount Desert Island, but right now, it’s really more about managing and educating people. While the black bears have likely always been on … Continue reading Park Officials Urge Bear Awareness as Sightings Rise on MDI

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Friends of Acadia's Annual Meeting Highlights Acadia’s Wins and Worries
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Friends of Acadia’s Annual Meeting Highlights Acadia’s Wins and Worries

Carrie Jones Jul 10, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by the Bar Harbor Music Festival. BAR HARBOR—Hard work. Fortitude. Resilience. Cheers and applause. The Friends of Acadia annual meeting, at the Bar Harbor Club, on July 9, celebrated the organization’s and Acadia National Park’s successes in the past year and also noted that things have been a bit different this year especially … Continue reading Friends of Acadia’s Annual Meeting Highlights Acadia’s Wins and Worries

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