BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 23, 2024
It’s always hard to turn around on a trail because the next bend beckons. I’m usually hoping for a rare wildlife sighting, like the silver fox glimpsed last weekend. But I’ve never considered stumbling across a community treehouse, standing sentinel at the edge of a peat bog, facing the sunset and flanked by a beaver lodge. But that’s just what I found at the end of Carter Meadow Road at Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge last fall.