The Wrack

High sustained winds and very large waves, both aligning with high tide, created a perfect storm on December 23, 2022.

A simple wind shift can make all the difference—in air quality, in temperature, in seawater, in politics.

The January 18, 2022, storm left its mark, but could have been worse.

Another periodic weather hindcast, this time covering a heavy precipitation event focused on York County.

June 28, 2021, is the hottest day at the reserve in a decade.

A glitch gets fixed and our home page "current conditions" bar returns to delivering weather and water data.

A load of snow, powerful winds, storm surge, and frigid air kick off 2018.

Laudholm Trust sends emergency relief funds to the Mission-Aransas Reserve in Texas and Jobos Bay Reserve in Puerto Rico to support recovery and rebuilding efforts after devastating hurricanes.

This year's Laudholm Nature Crafts Festival was the kind of community we should all want to live in. More than 160 volunteers worked together as a tireless, friendly, and welcoming team to make 3,500 visitors and 122 participating artisans feel like there was no better place to be.

The following was published in the Biddeford-Saco Journal Tribune Sunday edition, 3/20/2016, and Making It At Home's 3/23/2016 issue.

My wife and I and our two boys moved up to Maine full-time in July 2012. We felt like we’d arrived in the Garden of Eden. Lobsters were four bucks, the ocean was 73 degrees, and the outdoor season stretched well into November. It wasn’t the Maine I knew from my childhood (swimmable water!?), but who cared? It was awesome.