BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 18, 2020
The Baxter Youth Conservation Corps, a program organized and funded by Friends of Baxter State Park, hires Katahdin area teens every summer to conduct trail work in Baxter State Park. But this year, instead of working on a trail crew — which would have been impossible while practicing safe social distancing — the teens were asked to select one aspect of the park to study independently. The topics they chose ranged from mushrooms to native culture to fisheries biology.