My memories of the Maine North Woods come in unique, distinct moments. Watching a pair of loons nurture a fuzzy chick; the sun setting in brilliant colors over a freshwater lake, the slippery silhouette of a fish as it leaps out of the water after a fly. As part of a National Geographic Young Explorer grant, I traveled to the Maine North Woods in each of the four seasons, including the Katahdin Woods and Waters area that today became a new national monument.

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