MAINE MONITOR • March 12, 2023
Dr. Steve Kress, PhD, 77, has a long list of credits to his name, but undoubtedly he is best known for the work he spent much of his career doing: restoring and managing breeding populations of Atlantic puffins and other seabirds on Eastern Egg Rock, a small island six miles from New Harbor in Knox County. Kress founded Project Puffin 50 years ago with six puffin chicks from Canada. The populations of nesting pairs vary year to year, but in 2017, for example, there were 172. The seabird restoration techniques that he and Project Puffin staff and volunteers established are now used in seabird restoration projects around the world.