Michele Christle
is a writer, collaborator,
and freelance communications professional
Selected Publications
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"A Grand Legacy: The survival of the Grand Laker canoe"
Down East Magazine
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"The Upstream Battle to Preserve Maine’s Lucrative Elver Fishery"
Down East Magazine
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"Getting the Birds Back Together"
Down East Magazine
The Hair Snare Project
incidental observations from within the natural world: a participatory storytelling / data collection project
In the science world, a hair snare is a non-invasive, low-tech, passive research device used by wildlife researchers to collect fur samples from wild animals without capturing them.
In the world of the Hair Snare Project, a hair snare is a non-invasive, low-tech, passive data collection device, or a participatory storytelling tool.
The Elversphere
The Elversphere is an invitation, a story, a documentary film-in-progress, and a longform writing project.
Every year, when elver season begins, I enter what I call “The Elversphere”—an intoxicating world where observing the migrating elvers (baby eels) who make their way to so-called “Maine” after a long journey from their spawning grounds in the Sargasso Sea connects me to rivers, harbors, nocturnal escapades, fishermen, elver buyers and backers, conservationists, citizen science, policy, enforcement, artists, researchers, scientists, water, mud, and possibility.
