NOTEWORTHY
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 11:
– Where the Wild Things Were, 7 p.m. via Zoom in Friends of Merrymeeting Bay’s 26th annual Winter Speaker Series. Author Will Stolzenburg and FOMB Chair Ed Friedman discuss how scientists have begun to understand the ways in which many ecosystems are driven top-down by the presence of predators – whether starfish, sea otters, wolves or cougar – and how their elimination is causing imbalances in ecosystems, including in Maine, where deer and rodent populations have increased, fostering excesses of ticks, diseases, weeds and invasive plants. Stolzenburg and Friedman ask: Are we willing to adapt to a rewilding of dominant predators? Could we co-exist? Stolzenburg’s first book, Where the Wild Things Were, was a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection. Next up in the Winter Speaker Series, on Thursday, February 9:…
