NATURE NOTES FROM ACADIA

FOREWORD

Along with the inauguration of ranger-naturalist services at Acadia National Park, Nature Notes from Acadia makes its first appearance with this July issue of 1932. It is hoped that it may serve the same good purpose as served by similar publications in other National Parks.

Acadia, formerly Lafayette, joined the ranks of the National Parks in 1919. It lies off the rock-bound coast of Maine on Mount Desert Island, and has the distinction of being the first of the National Parks created in the eastern United States. It is famous for the beauty of its range of granitic mountains which cut through this roughly circular island in a northeast-southwest direction, for its numerous small lakes, and for its interesting types of natural vegetation. But most of all, perhaps, it is famed for its contact with the ocean along a rocky shore of great beauty.

So worthwhile are the Nature Notes of the western National Parks to those of us in the east who wish to become better informed as to their various forms of wild life, time of flowering of the wild plants, and other interesting natural phenomena, that it is hoped Acadia Nature Notes can be of similar interest, especially to the staffs of those longer-established western parks who have been pioneers, more or less, in this venture. Since at present the ranger-naturalist services in Acadia are in charge of a temporary ranger-naturalist, this publication will be issued only during the summer months.

- Ranger Naturalist