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Exploring Maine's Mountains, Rivers, and Lakes | National Geographic
Exploring Maine's Mountains, Rivers, and Lakes | National Geographic
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Once, land shaped us all.
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And water shaped the land.
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But in Maine, people are still forged by the mountains,
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lakes and rivers.
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I'm National Geographic explorer Kiliii Yüyan.
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I'm traveling from the lakes and mountains
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to Mid-Coast Maine.
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to learn how it's all connected.
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Fly fishing has always been something I've wanted to learn.
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In Rangeley, I get to see the craft of tying flies first hand.
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And then get out on the water to try to catch some fish.
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We have something really unique here.
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From the 1800s it's been good stewardship that's-
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That's created this area.
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Fly fishing only. It’s a real special place.
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It's outstanding up here, you know?
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There's nothing really like it.
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There's over 6,000 lakes and ponds and thousands of rivers in the state,
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and brook trout are native to almost all of those waters.
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All right Logan, I'm stoked for this, man.
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When I'm casting, my shoulders are relaxed, my elbows are kind of down,
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and I try not to use my body too much.
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So give it a try.
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Just get warmed up.
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Maine is unique where there's thousands
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of privately owned acres of area accessible to the public.
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It's vast.
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There's something just meditative about being on the water.
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Nice, dude.
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That's nice and smooth right there.
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Under the Mahoosic Range
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I'm meeting with a traditional canoe builder and an incredible couple.
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Kevin and Polly bring people out on the water,
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helping them connect to the wildlands.
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We have ten people going on this trip. Wow.
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We do instruction on the land,
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and then we put the boats in the water and do instruction on the water.
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Who’s a good girl?
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Yeah.
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The first interstate highway system in Maine
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were the rivers.
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The native people could connect all these watersheds.
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They could travel from all along the coast here
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to northern hunting areas.
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In Maine we still have a lot of beautiful wild country that's undeveloped left.
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And we have borrowed a lot of the material culture,
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the canoe, paddles, from the first people of what we now call Maine, the Wabanaki.
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So many of our friends,
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their parents and grandparents hid the fact that they were indigenous.
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My parents did the same.
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You know, they had their indigenous ancestry.
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I mean, I didn't even find out till I was 20.
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People are much more accepting and open to the knowledge,
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the values and the gifts that indigenous culture can bring to ours.
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It makes me a little teary inside to hear that this is happening here as well, and beautiful.
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How did you originally make friends with the Wabanaki?
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I actually did my student teaching over on the reserve.
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They wanted to work with someone that understood and respected their culture,
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but also had a long track record of, you know, doing guided canoe trips.
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We call them our way of the Wabanaki trips.
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Offering cultural canoe trips through their ancestral homelands.
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I'm headed south to the lake town of Bridgton.
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To meet Brian Buckland,
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a potter who sources local materials like clay, seashells, and gems.
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Welcome to the train kiln.
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We go around this side. You can see the firebox.
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Oh, wow. It's huge in here.
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Further, further.
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Hello.
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That's it.
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All the wood comes from about ten minutes from here.
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We're actually melting wood ash to create the glaze on the pots.
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So it's like a collaboration with the fire, right?
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It's a kind of collaboration. Absolutely.
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Two ingredients make this glaze,
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Maine clay from Woolwich.
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And then this is clamshells that I've collected on the beach.
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Oh, really?
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I get a trout a lot with these taller cups.
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It's a nice community around here,
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there's other artists nearby and um-
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We've got a lot to offer in Maine.
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I'm traveling east across the state to the Midcoast.
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You can see the different rivers and lakes,
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the fog rolling in,
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and you can understand why the land is a source of inspiration
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and creativity for Mainers.
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At Glidden Point Oyster Farms,
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I'm headed to learn about the ecology of the Damariscotta River.
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While we're all growing the same species,
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each farm is gonna have a different flavor profile.
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Oh, look at these guys.
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Oysters are like wine,
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they taste like the region and area that they're grown in.
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I imagine oysters have been growing here since before you guys came too?
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We're just the latest chapter.
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We've been here since 1987 as a farm,
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but oysters have been on this river for thousands of years.
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And stewarded and cared for by the Penobscot Nation.
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Right on. The indigenous people here,
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You're still tending the wild, which I think is pretty awesome.
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It's one of the most sustainable industries because we don't have to feed our product.
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They're eating what's naturally in the environment,
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The oysters that we're farming are a native species as well,
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so we think about a lot of the work that we do as regenerative.
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We really do provide this link between oysters and Maine waterways.
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We're here to show that oysters carry such a long history.
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All right, cheers!
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Cheers!
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Upriver at the Whaleback Shell Middens historic site.
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Ancient oyster shells were once piled 30ft high.
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You can see the remnants,
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a reminder that rivers have been a source of life here for thousands of years.
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In Liberty Tool,
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you can just wander for hours.
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As a boat builder, I'm so excited about all of it.
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We sell lots of old tools, as you can see.
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You're going to find anything and everything.
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Liberty is not too far from Belfast.
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So we're close to the ocean and we're close to community
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of shipbuilders and carpenters, plumbers, electricians, woodworkers.
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This is a place they can find items that are useful.
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In Belfast I'm tasting some of Maine's most popular food,
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The lobster.
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Belfast is a nice place. It's very low key.
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If you want peace and quiet, I think, yeah here is a place for you.
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Most business within Belfast area is family owned
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and everybody support each other within the community.
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Yeah, we live more like family around here.
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Kiliii your order is ready.
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Kiliii your order is ready at the front counter.
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After my time here in Maine, I've grown to understand the passion,
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resourcefulness and love for the community that the Mainers have.
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It's a feeling I hope other people get to experience.
