Working Together

Volunteers are an incredible asset to Acadia National Park where they help the park with a variety of projects including maintaining the famous carriage roads.

Ashley L. Conti, Friends of Acadia

There are many ways that you can get involved with Acadia National Park and support the preservation and protection of the park for future generations. Together, we can make a difference.

During your visit:

• Go car-free- ride the Island Explorer, walk or bike. Carpool, combine trips, and reduce driving. All of these actions reduce traffic, crowding, and the harmful emissions that contribute to global warming.
• Practicing Leave No Trace Principles, like staying on marked trails and durable surfaces, will help park plants and animals survive.
• Help scientists monitor change by contributing observations of plants, birds, and other wildlife via iNaturalist and eBird.

At home:

• You can reduce your carbon emissions
• You can also help the environment in your neighborhood by promoting public transportation, pedestrian and bicycle friendly infrastructure, planting native trees, shrubs, and flowers to ‘bee’ healthy
• Bike, walk or take public transportation or carpool as much as possible
• Help scientists monitor change by contributing observations of plants, birds, and other wildlife via iNaturalist and eBird.

 

If we act now, we have our greatest chance to ensure that:

• Mountain summits will have healthy soil and plant communities.
• Wetlands flow naturally and flooding is minimized.
• Native plant and animal species thrive
• Acadia’s forests remain some of the healthiest and diverse on the Eastern Seaboard. Tree species may be different, but forest cover will remain a keyfeature of the Acadian landscape.
• Acadia continues to serve as a refuge for species impacted by warming temperatures elsewhere.
• Wabanaki people continue to practice their cultural traditions in their
  ancestral homeland.
• Visitors continue to enjoy hiking historic trails and the historic carriage roads.
• Acadia’s lakes continue to provide abundant and clean driving water for
  residents and visitors.
• Acadia continue to be a place for scientific inquiry and education.

 

Visitors taking in a early morning beauty of sunrise.

Lily Regina, Friends of Acadia