
Donate to Friends of Acadia this week and you'll help Acadia National Park's plants and animals.
You know that Acadia National Park’s natural scenery is spectacularly varied, from granite-topped mountains to bold shorelines. But did you know that Acadia’s plant and animal life are similarly diverse? Delicate alpine wood lilies thrive just a 30-minute hike from saltwater eelgrasses. Explore the park and you can see peregrines, great blue herons, and harlequin ducks all within a short distance.
During its spring membership campaign, Friends of Acadia is raising money to benefit the park's flora and fauna. Act now and your donation will be matched, to do even more for the plants and animals that call Acadia home.
The harlequins, buffleheads, and other seabirds that delight park visitors along Ocean Drive hardly notice as they rise and fall with the surf. Not so lucky are Acadia’s land-based species—as storm surges push salt water further up streams and air temperatures creep ever higher, plants and animals must migrate to seek their comfort zone.
Friends of Acadia’s Wild Acadia program is working with park biologists and a fantastic mix of partner organizations to ensure that Acadia’s wildlife and ecosystems are as resilient as possible in the face of these changes. Now FOA's members have an opportunity to strengthen the Wild Acadia program—and all of FOA’s important efforts in the park—with a $12,500 Spring Membership Challenge from a small group of committed park friends. Every gift made to Friends of Acadia between now and Friday, March 10, will be matched until the friends group reaches its goal.
A successful campaign will give Friends of Acadia's spring membership appeal a $25,000 boost just as sweet-singing warblers are flying northward toward Acadia’s forests and partner scientists are readying equipment for another season of research in Acadia’s wetlands.