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| Monday Check in 2-4 p.m. Tour of Medomak Retreat Center and Medomak Lake waterfront orientation. 5:30 Happy hour. 6:30 dinner After dinner slide presentation: Reading the Forested Landscape. Evening Campfire. Tuesday Field exploration of historic Medomak Camp property: formerly cultivated lands; historic stone walls; Native American ruins; abandoned beaver pond. Evening slide presentation: Reading the Granite Landscape. Wednesday Field trip to Fernald's Neck-Nature Conservancy preserve extending into Lake Megunticook. Mature pine, hemlock, spruce forest. Afternoon Discussion: Introduction to Complex Systems and Natural History Thursday Day trip to Acadia National Park. Loop hike on South Ridge of Mt. Cadillac-examine myriad lichen communities. Lunch on the mountain. Afternoon hike through old growth forest along Hunter's Brook trail. Time permitting-explore geology and agricultural history of Great Head. Dinner on Mt. Desert Island. Friday Field trip to Megunticook Mtn. Explore 200+ year old trees surrounded by younger forest. Break into smaller groups and interpret landscape history. Afternoon Discussion: Increase in Diversity and Integration as a Complex System Self-Organizes. Lobster dinner and evening Campfire. Saturday Closing ceremonies and final interpretive field trip-led by participants. One on one time with Tom Wessels. *All meals are provided by Medomak Retreat Center Back to Wessels Retreat page |
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