www.wellsreserve.org/news/2008-04-02_earthday.htm

EARTH DAY CELEBRATION AT WELLS RESERVE

WELLS, MAINE - Wells Reserve and Laudholm Trust host a family friendly Earth Day Celebration on Saturday, April 19, from 10 am to 3 pm. The event is free. For information, visit www.wellsreserve.org or call 207-646-1555.

This year's focus is on water. Kids can become a water molecule and journey through the water cycle or make a rain storm over our model watershed. Adults can talk with Wells Reserve staff about watershed stewardship activities and water quality monitoring programs. The Coastal Resource Library doors will be open, too.

As always, Earth Day at Wells Reserve features conservation groups, businesses, schools, and other organizations offering hands-on activities and demonstrating what they do to make our planet a healthier place.

Scheduled Activities for Earth Day at Wells Reserve
Saturday, April 19, 10 am to 3 pm

• 10:30 am: Dedication for New Interpretive Trail Signs
• 11:30 am to 12:30 pm: Water Tales with storyteller Debra Ballou
• 12:30 to 1:30 pm: Interpretive Nature Walk along Salt Marsh Loop
• 1:30 to 2:30 pm: The Center for Wildlife presents, "Raptors, Reptiles, and Mammals, Oh My!"

The Cover Crops, a fun folk-bluegrass band, will be back to perform throughout the day. Borealis Breads will sell lunches and snacks.

The Wells Reserve boasts seven miles of trails through fields, forests, marshes, and along a sandy beach.

The 2008 Wells Reserve Earth Day Celebration is supported by donations to Laudholm Trust from Pratt & Whitney, Stop & Shop, and Grandy Oats.

Laudholm Trust will also be kicking off its Punkinfiddle raffle, featuring a kayak donated by Bandaloop and outdoor gear donated by L.L. Bean. The winners will be selected at the National Estuaries Day Celebration in September.

Exhibitors
Ferry Beach Ecology School
Grandy Oats
Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, and Wells Water District
Maine Department of Environmental Protection
Maine Healthy Beaches Program of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Master Gardener Program of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Mount Agamenticus Conservation Program
Ogunquit Conservation Commission
Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge
The Center for Wildlife
The School Around Us
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
White Pine Programs
Wildroot Farm
York County Audubon Society
York County Soil and Water Conservation District

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